Adding
Cloud-based Federation Connects School's Microsoft Lync Users to
Google Talk and Other UC Platforms for Faculty Meetings,
Parent-Teacher Conferences, and More.
SUNNYVALE,
Calif. (September 6, 2012) -- NextPlane,
Inc., the market leader in cloud-based federation
services for unified communications (UC), today announced that the
Anglo American School of Moscow (AAS) is the latest educational
institution to subscribe to the NextPlane Federation Cloud service.
Using NextPlane, AAS Moscow now can federate its Microsoft Lync to
Google other UC platforms to facilitate faculty meetings,
parent/teacher conferences, and collaborative study.
AAS
Moscow has more than 2,000 students and faculty that currently are
using Microsoft Lync 2010 for internal collaborative communications,
with plans to upgrade the school’s network to add more bandwidth in
the near future and to integrate its Lync clients with its telecom
system. Even though AAS has deployed Microsoft Lync for internal
school communication AAS early on recognized that in order to be
truly effective in communicating with parents, colleagues, and
friends around the world it had to federate its Lync platform with
Google and other UC systems. That’s why AAS selected NextPlane as
its Federation Cloud service provider.
AAS
selected the NextPlane Federation Cloud service because it provides
hi-fidelity federation between Microsoft Lync and other key UC
platforms, such as Google, as well as IBM Sametime, Cisco Jabber XCP,
Unified Presence Server (CUPS) and WebEx Messenger (formerly Cisco
WebEx Connect), Jive OpenFire, Isode M-Link and eJabberd. When
connecting via the NextPlane Federation Cloud service, Lync and
Google users can see each other’s presence (including custom and
activity-based presence), engage in one-to-one chat, participate in
multi-user chat sessions, and make voice and video calls. In fact,
the NextPlane Federation Cloud is the only service with
presence-aware voice and video communications between Microsoft Lync
and Google.
“With
transportation in Moscow being a challenge, our current plan is to
use NextPlane to support Google video conferencing for parent-teacher
meetings, and enable more virtual meetings for our faculty,” said
Ilya Pekshev, Head of Systems and Network Operation for AAS of
Moscow. “And our faculty and students have a lot of friends
overseas, so access to Google with zero cost is a real convenience
for the entire school. It’s this kind of technology that keeps AAS
Moscow on the leading edge.”
Pekshev
also notes that his mission is to not only create a real-time
collaborative system, but also to provide a safe working environment
for all his users. Part of the reason for choosing NextPlane was that
the Federation Cloud service offers integrated security including
central federation management and provisioning, support for TLS
encryption over XMPP and the ability to control communications
through policies.
The
NextPlane Federation Cloud service accelerates building federated
collaborative communities by eliminating the need to set up and
maintain separate federation to multiple parties. 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
connections. Finally, using NextPlane’s unique analytics and
reporting tools to provide valuable insight into how collaboration is
affecting network operations.
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, Unified Presence Server
(CUPS) and WebEx Messenger (formerly Cisco 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 building collaborative communities
around regardless of underlying UC platforms. NextPlane supports
domain sharing, allowing two or more UC platforms to share the same
domain name and federate internally and externally.
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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