Covergence Delivers Industry's First Complete Microsoft LCS 2005 - IBM Sametime Interoperability Solution; Enables IM and presence interoperability between collaboration applications.MAYNARD, Mass. -- Covergence, the first company to deliver a unified security and management solution for applications and services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP), announced today that it is shipping the first complete Microsoft LCS LCS - Language for Communicating Systems - IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Sametime interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. solution. The Covergence Eclipse(TM) series enables seamless communication between collaboration applications from different vendors. Enterprises have been quick to invest in collaboration solutions to reap the benefits of increased productivity, accelerated business processes and reduced costs. The two predominant enterprise collaboration applications in the market are IBM Lotus Sametime Lotus Sametime is an enterprise instant messaging and web conferencing application sold by the Lotus Software division of IBM. Lotus Sametime provides enterprise instant messaging functionality, presence information, and web conferencing. (R) and Microsoft(R) Live Communications Server See network access server, modem server, terminal server and communications controller. (operating system) Communications Server - IBM's rebranding of ACF. . Although both of these applications support connectivity to external collaboration communities using protocols based on SIP and its extensions for instant messages and presence (SIMPLE), they cannot interoperate directly. As a result, enterprises that have both Sametime and LCS environments are left with unacceptable "islands of collaboration" where users in the LCS community cannot collaborate with users in the Sametime community. "Enterprises have a critical, immediate need for a solution that enables seamless communication between their Sametime and LCS environments," said Bob O'Neil, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Covergence. "Enterprises that adopt Covergence's Eclipse solution are quickly seeing the benefits of true enterprise collaboration." The Eclipse LCS-Sametime solution features a unique, patent-pending architecture that enables it to translate between different vendors' SIP/SIMPLE dialects and enables seamless cross-domain presence visibility and messaging connectivity in a way that is transparent to the end user. In addition, Eclipse gives organizations total management visibility and control over all cross-domain collaboration activity. Using Eclipse's management interfaces, administrators can define security, control and monitoring policies that Eclipse will then enforce on all cross-domain collaboration traffic. The Eclipse LCS-Sametime interoperability solution is available immediately. About Covergence Covergence has developed the industry's first unified security and management solution for applications and services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The Covergence Eclipse (TM) series of solutions provide the security, control, monitoring and interoperability necessary for deployment of real-time applications and services. For more information, visit www.covergence.com. IBM, Lotus, Sametime and Workplace are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . |
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