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The Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) is a telecommunications alliance between Microsoft and Nortel, created in July 2006, to co-develop, integrate, market, sell, and support unified communications products. The two companies are working together to create integrated hardware and software solutions that join together voice, video, and data communications without requiring gateways or middleware.[1] Microsoft and Nortel share developing technologies and patents for unified communications products.

As of August, 2007, the Gartner group identified Nortel and Microsoft as leaders in unified communications.[2]

Formation of alliance

Nortel and Microsoft announced the Innovative Communications Alliance in July 2006.[3] Nortel and Microsoft agreed to share patents, technology, marketing, and development for unified communications products. The companies created joint development teams[4][5] to integrate Microsoft Office 2007 applications with the Nortel telecommunication hardware (Communication Server 2100, Communication Server 1000, Secure Router 4134, and LG-Nortel IP Phone 8540), in order to provide unified enterprise communications products such as secure instant messaging, presence, voice and video telephony, and web conferencing. The alliance permits the two companies to accelerate their development of unified communications solutions.

Joint solutions

The Nortel CS 1000 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging products support SIP interoperability to provide unified messaging. The Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration product interoperates with the Nortel CS 2000 to allow operators to host Exchange, Sharepoint, and Office Live Communications Server for their customers.[citation needed]

The Nortel Multimedia Conference product interacts with Microsoft Office Communicator 2000 to provide a single customer experience for voice services, instant messaging, presence, and audio/video conferencing.[citation needed]

British and Dutch Royal Dutch Shell have deployed Microsoft servers and Nortel CS 1000 servers to support approximately 110,000 users.[6][citation needed] ASUSteK Computer is using unified communications solutions from Nortel and Microsoft for its internal communications.[7]

Unified communications products

Competing solutions

In March, 2007, Cisco and IBM announced an alliance to bring together Sametime collaboration and Cisco Unified Communications Portfolio, to compete against the Nortel-Microsoft product offerings.[8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Microsoft Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program
  2. ^ Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications, 2007
  3. ^ Microsoft, Nortel Announce Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA)
  4. ^ Nortel Sees $1B From Microsoft Alliance
  5. ^ Enterprise and Contact Center Communications
  6. ^ Microsoft, Nortel show unified communications road map
  7. ^ Taiwan’s ASUS Embraces Unified Communications with Nortel and Microsoft Solutions
  8. ^ IBM and Cisco team against Microsoft and Nortel

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