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The Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) is a telecommunications alliance between Microsoft and Nortel, created in July 2006, to co-develop, integrate, market, sell, and support unified communications products. The goal of the alliance is to make integrated hardware and software solutions that join together voice, video, and data communications without requiring gateways or middleware.[1] Microsoft and Nortel share developing technologies and patents for unified communications products. Formation of allianceNortel and Microsoft announced the Innovative Communications Alliance in July 2006.[2] Nortel and Microsoft agreed to share patents, technology, marketing, and development for unified communications products. The companies have integrated Microsoft Office 2007 applications with the Nortel telecommunication hardware (Communication Server 2100, Communication Server 1000, Secure Router 4134, and LG-Nortel IP Phone 8540), in order to provide unified enterprise communications products such as secure instant messaging, presence{{Clarify|date=August 2010}}, voice and video telephony, and web conferencing. The alliance competes with other competitors in instant messaging such as Google Talk, Office SIP Messenger, Miranda, and AIM. Many of these other products offer instant messaging, Voice over IP (VOIP), and file transfers at little or no cost.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} Joint solutionsVarious Nortel products have been integrated with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, including:[3][4]
The Carrier Hosted Unified Communications Solution is an integration of the Nortel Communication Server 2000 softswitch with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2000 and Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging, to provide instant messaging, voice services, video conferencing, and other multimedia services.[4] As of January, 2007, British and Dutch Royal Dutch Shell had deployed approximate 2,000 Nortel phones to work with Microsoft Office Communicator client.[5] ASUSteK Computer is using unified communications solutions from Nortel and Microsoft for its internal communications.[6]Unified communications products
Competing solutionsIn March, 2007, Cisco and IBM announced an alliance to bring together "Sametime collaboration"{{Clarify|date=August 2010}} and Cisco Unified Communications Portfolio, to compete against the Nortel-Microsoft product offerings. See also{{Portal|Microsoft}}
References1. ^[https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb735838.aspx Microsoft Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program] 2. ^Microsoft, Nortel Announce Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) 3. ^{{cite web | last = Montalbano | first = Elizabeth | title = Microsoft, Nortel unveil ICA's first products | publisher = IDG News Service | date = 2007-01-17 | url = http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/17/HNicafirstproducts_1.html | accessdate = 2008-07-28 }} 4. ^1 {{cite web | last = Jim | first = Duffy | title = Nortel, Microsoft ship unified communications products | publisher = Network World | date = 2008-03-12 | url = http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/031208-microsoft-novell-unified-communications.html | accessdate = 2008-07-28 }} 5. ^{{cite web | last = Hamblen | first = Matt | title = Microsoft, Nortel show unified communications road map | publisher = ComputerWorldUK | date = 2007-01-19 | url = http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/networking/voip/news/index.cfm?newsid=1881 | accessdate = 2008-07-28 }} 6. ^{{cite web | title = Taiwan’s ASUS Embraces Unified Communications with Nortel and Microsoft Solutions | publisher = IDG Communications | date = 2008-05-20 | url = http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1283174667 | accessdate = 2008-07-28 }} External links
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