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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging, Nortel Networks' IP PBX, and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) are part of Microsoft's and Nortel Networks' plans to provide 'what's arguably the industry's most feature-rich product road map yet for unified communications.' Next quarter, Microsoft and Nortel plan to provide an easier way to make e-mail and voicemail work together through interoperability of Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging, Nortel's IP PBX, and SIP. Microsoft and Nortel demonstrated the first output from their alliance of six months, including three new products, 11 services, and a four-year blueprint. One product planned for availability by the end of 2007 is the UC Integrated Branch, which will provide Voice over IP (VoIP) calling and unified communications from one device that includes data routing and switching, a media gateway, a presence server, codecs, an IP IPX, and Microsoft Office Communications Server. Later in the year, Microsoft and Nortel plan release of a product called Converged Office for Nortel enterprise-level IP PBX supporting up to 200,000 users. Among topics covered are roadblocks to unified communications adoption, competing communications components from Microsoft and Nortel, where Lotus Sametime fits in, and Oracle's purchase of Hotsip, a telephony and collaboration application server software provider.
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