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Apr 18 2008   3:09AM GMT

XO Communications and Cisco Work Together



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cisco, interoperability, Unified Communications, UC, XO Communications, XO SIP, Smart Business Communications System, 500 series, SIP trunking

XO Communications’ XO SIP has passed interoperability tests with Cisco’s Smart Business Communications System. The combination of the 500 series unified communications solution from Cisco, and XO SIP, provides customers with a managed SIP trunking solution for the Cisco unified communications platform. You can learn more about both products, and the benefits of their partnership, from this CNNMoney.com article.

Mar 23 2008   3:12AM GMT

Microsoft and IBM to Test Interoperability



Posted by: Tony Bradley
IBM, interoperability, Unified Communications, Lotus Sametime, UCC, Microsoft, VoiceCon

In my last post, I mentioned that the lack of standards and platform interoperability was one of the biggest issues for early adopters of Unified Communications technologies. Microsoft and IBM are two of the biggest players in the Unified Communications arena. Microsoft is aggressively pushing for its share of the Unified Communications pie with their UCC (Unified Communications & Collaboration) tools. IBM, with their Lotus Sametime product, recently announced that they are investing $1 billion in R&D and acquisitions to strengthen their Unified Communications position. However, there are reports that an impromptu discussion at a VoiceCon Orlando session may lead to the two titans working on testing the interoperability of their products. If they manage to organize the testing, a demonstration of the interoperability may be performed at VoiceCon San Francisco this Fall.