Expanded
Features for NextPlane Federation Cloud Service Allows Microsoft
Office Communicator and Lync Users to Participate in Chat Rooms
Hosted on XMPP UC Platforms.
SUNNYVALE,
Calif. (August 1, 2012) -- NextPlane,
Inc., the market leader in cloud-based federation
services for unified communications (UC), today announced the
addition of XMPP group chat federation to the NextPlane Federation
Cloud service. Now end users with Microsoft Office Communicator (MOC)
and Lync clients can easily add chat rooms hosted on XMPP-based UCs,
such as OpenFire, to their contact lists without requiring
specialized Microsoft Group Chat servers or clients. With these new
features, Microsoft users can now take advantage of the NextPlane
Federation Cloud services as a central exchange to extend their reach
and connect with other UC platforms to create collaborative business
communities.
Now
Microsoft OCS and Lync users can easily participate in chat rooms
hosted on XMPP UC platforms see the other participants, view chat
room history, and engage in live chat conversations. Chat rooms can
be added to the MOC or Lync client contact list as if they were
federated users. Moreover, NextPlane supports the restrictions
imposed by members-only rooms.
“Enabling
group chat federation is an important component in building federated
communities, a strategy that more and more competitive organizations
are adopting with the aid of the NextPlane Federation Cloud service
to connect to suppliers, partners, and customers in real time,”
said Farzin Shahidi, Founder and CEO of NextPlane. “For the first
time, Microsoft users can participate in XMPP hosted chat rooms.”
The
NextPlane Federation Cloud service accelerates building federated
business communities by eliminating the need to set up and maintain
separate federation to multiple partners. NextPlane Federation Cloud
service subscribers enjoy unprecedented control over which types of
traffic (IM, presence, voice, video, and file transfer) are allowed
or denied to any of their federated partners. Finally, using
NextPlane’s unique analytics and reporting tools, companies are
gaining valuable insight into how collaboration with their federated
partner community is boosting their business.
To
demonstrate the value of the NextPlane Federation Cloud to build
collaborative business communities, NextPlane is offering a 30-day
trial to qualifying organizations. For more information, visit
http://www.nextplane.net.
About
NextPlane, Inc.
NextPlane
offers the NextPlane Federation Could service for unified
communications (UC) platforms, seamlessly federating Microsoft LCS,
OCS, OCS R2 and Lync, Cisco Jabber XCP, CUPS and Webex Connect, IBM
Sametime, Google Apps, Jive OpenFire, ISODE M-Link and eJabberd.
Using the NextPlane Federation Cloud service, organizations can
connect users from different companies regardless of underlying UC
platforms - with shared presence, instant messaging, multi-user chat,
voice and video - as if they are on the same UC platform.
NextPlane
offers an ideal solution for companies migrating from one UC platform
to another, or to integrate different legacy platforms following a
company merger or a new contract or partnership. NextPlane even
supports domain sharing, allowing two or more UC platforms to
federate internally and externally using the same domain name.
For
more information please visit http://www.nextplane.net,
or contact sales at sales@nextplane.net.
Contact:
Farzin
Shahidi
NextPlane,
Inc.
(650)
305-7404
Tom
Woolf
Woolf
Media & Marketing
(415)
259-5638
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