New Joint UC Solutions Launched by Microsoft, Nortel

Microsoft Corp. and Nortel announced the availability of four new joint unified communications (UC) solutions designed to transform how people around the world connect, communicate and collaborate. The joint products include the Converged Office unified communications suite, Multimedia Conferencing, and solutions for branch offices and hosted service providers. Customer adoption continues to accelerate with more than 600 wins for the companies’ unified communications products since the formation of the alliance. With these new solutions, Nortel and Microsoft have now delivered 10 solutions to market as part of their Innovative Communications Alliance announced less than two years ago.

 

“With these solutions, enterprises can now choose to deploy unified communications via a customer premise solution, managed service solution, or hybrid of the two, helping accelerate the pace of unified communications adoption,” said Ruchi Prasad, vice president and general manager, Innovative Communications Alliance, Nortel.

 

“In the coming year, we will extend the scope of our unified communications collaboration to include areas such as Contact Center integration and a mix of hybrid and fully hosted UC solutions,” said Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president, Unified Communications Group, Microsoft.

 

Gartner Inc, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, has positioned both Microsoft and Nortel in the Leaders quadrant in the '2007 Unified Communications Magic Quadrant' report.