SEATTLE, May 20 -- Evangelyze Communications (EC), a Microsoft Unified Communications Voice Specialized and Software Development partner, has announced the release of their highly anticipated SmartSIP product which enables integration of existing SIP phones, Softphone applications, PBX systems, and ITSP (Internet Telephony Service Providers) with Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS) platform.
"Microsoft's Unified Communications platform is the most innovative communications platform in the communications marketplace," says Joe Schurman, Founder and CEO of Evangelyze Communications. "With Microsoft's focus on UCC (Unified Communications & Collaboration), organizations can easily transition into a software-powered communications platform that integrates into their existing line of business applications and processes, which no other UC competitor can provide. We at EC feel that this platform needs to be open to existing voice carrier networks, phone devices, softphone applications, and enable branch, store, and remote office location connectivity due to a variety of reasons including cost savings, etc. Most organizations are locked into contract with voice carriers and PBX manufacturers and they have spent thousands and even millions of dollars on voice service accounts, phone devices and softphone applications that they do not want to or simply cannot afford to stop using. Organizations also have branch, store, and/or remote office locations to support too. SmartSIP is the answer to all of these concerns. With SmartSIP, organizations can leverage Microsoft Office Communications Server as their voice platform and keep their voice carrier contracts, phone devices and softphones without the need for any software to run on the phone or softphone. This also includes X-Lite and other softphone applications, which will now provide Microsoft voice services to Mac and Linux users including Microsoft OCS presence, voice, contacts, and more. To add, SmartSIP provides support for UDP and TCP-based SIP Trunking providers as we realize that organizations cannot afford to nor want to break their contracts with their existing voice carriers. SmartSIP also offers a connector service for branch, store, and remote office locations so that organizations can connect Microsoft Office Communications Server in their headquarters locations to these locations easily with survivability and fail-over support with our gateway partners," adds Joe.
"SmartSIP is designed for extending the Microsoft UC platform to industry standard SIP connectivity (UDP) while minimizing the maintenance and administration overhead by leveraging Microsoft's Active Directory and OCS configuration," says Simon Booth, Director of Research & Development at EC.
"I'm telling you, this is market changing! When organizations realize that this product is now available, it's the solution that will finally move them to the Microsoft Unified Communications platform. Microsoft's competitors in the UC marketplace no longer stand a chance. Organizations can now choose whatever voice carrier, whatever phone device, softphone application running on any operating system and connect all of their locations together using Microsoft's Unified Communications platform and then leverage the development capabilities of this platform to enable business process solutions for specific industry use in retail, healthcare, financial services, military, federal, etc. This is it!" Joe concludes.
Evangelyze Communications already has hundreds of customers, partners and voice carriers in the pre-release SmartSIP program. Robert MacLean, founder of Simplement, Inc and a pre-release SmartSIP customer, had this to say: "SmartSIP extends the functionality of Microsoft Office Communications Server in ways that make sense for businesses and saves money at the same time. Outbound we can easily route between multiple ITSPs, not worry if our ITSP is UDP or TCP, and use NAT traversal or connect directly to an outside port. Inbound we can route based on a user's Active Directory attributes making it so easy to associate multiple DIDs with a single user or the same DID with multiple users, all the while using only one OCS Mediation Server with minimal effort on our part thanks to the SmartSIP user interface. We can connect just about any SIP phone giving us a great choice of devices available or to reuse our existing phones."
About Evangelyze Communications
Evangelyze Communications (EC) is a global unified communications and voice product development company that specializes in Microsoft Voice & Unified Communications products and services. EC is comprised of award- winning and internationally-renowned experts, whose research, development, and publications have been widely distributed and highly regarded, enabling the organization to become a leading global Microsoft Voice Specialized Partner (VSP) and an innovator in voice and unified communications software for line-of-business and vertical industries.
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