New
voice and video service addition to NextPlane Federation Cloud
Service expands seamless UC connectivity between different enterprise
networks.
SUNNYVALE,
Calif. (May 12, 2012) -- NextPlane,
Inc., the market leader in cloud-based federation
services for unified communications (UC), has just launched a new
service to federate video and voice across disparate enterprise UC
networks. The first stage of the new voice/video
Federation-as-a-Service (FaaS) solution will provide voice and video
federation between Microsoft (Lync and OCS) and Google Apps.
With
the launch of this new service, NextPlane now can interconnect
enterprises with voice and video without requiring additional
hardware or software and without impacting the end-users’ native UC
experience.
Federation
of a voice or video call between Microsoft OCS or Lync and Google
Apps was previously not possible, but with the NextPlane Federation
Cloud providing hi-fidelity federation between the different UC
platforms, users get the same features and functions as if they were
on the same platform. In addition to adding video support between
Microsoft OCS and Lync and Google Apps, the NextPlane Federation
Cloud allows users on Microsoft Lync, OCS, and LCS; Cisco Unified
Presence Server (CUPS), Jabber XCP, and WebEx Connect; IBM Sametime;
Google Apps, and Jive OpenFire to share presence, chat, instant
messages, and participate in multi-user chat.
“Enterprise
UC users are starting to look beyond their corporate boundaries to
enable rich collaboration with customers, partners and suppliers
regardless of underlying UC platforms, and taking advantage of a
cloud-based service is the best way to establish fast, seamless
federation,” said Farzin Shahidi, CEO of NextPlane. “We already
support federation between Microsoft Lync or OCS and Google Apps for
IM, presence, and multi-user chat, but this new service marks the
first time we offering video as well as voice federation. Our
long-term objective is to eliminate the UC Tower of Babel and make it
possible to federate any service from any UC platform through a
cloud-based service.”
Even
with open standards such as the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and
the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), seamless
federation of multi-vendor UC platforms that give users all the rich
features of presence, multi-user chat, and other UC functions remains
an elusive challenge for enterprises and service providers. NextPlane
overcomes this challenge by providing a common, integrated platform
so enterprise customers can allow users to work together as if they
were served by a common UC platform, sharing presence, exchanging IM,
and participating in multiparty chat, voice, and video. Furthermore,
NextPlane Federation Cloud service allows enterprises to set policies
that allow or deny federated voice and video traffic by domains
and/or users.
For
more information, visit http://www.nextplane.net.
About
NextPlane, Inc.
NextPlane
offers enterprise-class Federation as a Service (FaaS) solutions for
unified communications (UC) platforms, seamlessly federating
Microsoft Lync 2010, OCS 2007 R2, OCS 2007 and LCS 2005, IBM
Sametime, Cisco Jabber XCP, Cisco Unified Presence Server 8.x, Cisco
WebEx Connect, Jive OpenFire, and Google Apps. Using 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, video,
and other features - as if they are on the same 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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