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By Doug Mohney
10.19.07

Hardware vendors and BroadSoft (www.broadsoft.com) competed against a glut of vendors announcing support for Microsoft’s Unified Communications solution this week.

Among the highlights from the ATCA Summit, Kontron (www.kontron.com) and Enea (www.enea.com) announced a jointly developed, AdvancedTCA high-availability streaming media platform. Kontron provided an open platform built around a pair of processor nodes, each with dual Intel dual-core Xeon processors and a pair of GigE switches. Each processing node was populated with a SATA AdvancedMC module to store video content. Enea’s Element middleware platform was loaded onto the system to demonstrate that the total solution can be used to deploy key content delivery services such as live media, stored media, operating support, digital rights management, encoding, and central media switching.

BroadSoft’s Connection 2007 conference generated a slew of releases for the company. BroadSoft’s BroadWorks platform has been integrated into the Jamcracker Service Delivery Network, allowing service providers to deliver unified communications services to their customers as an on-demand service offering. BroadWorks voice applications such as hosted PBX, mobile PBX, SIP and IP trunking can be bundled with Jamcracker-delivered services such as Microsoft Exchange, WebEx conferencing, and Microsoft Office Communications Server.

Companies throwing support to Microsoft’s Office Communication Server 2007 (OCS) included NEC (www.nec.com). The company announced server products and services for supporting unified communications, including collaboration middleware and a media gateway. NEC’s Basic Media Gateway (BMG) provides PSTN/ISDN interconnects to OCS and also works as a gateway for providing VoIP connectivity to an existing PBX or key system for OCS.

Other vendors with Microsoft OCS announcements this week included Aculab (www.aculab.com), Dialogic (www.dialogic.com), Mitel (www.mitel.com), Nortel (www.nortel.com), and Polycom (www.polycom.com).

 

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