Sametime, Skype, Blackberry and WebMessenger
Tags :Blackberry Sametime WebMessenger Skype
Talk about a mix. I came across an article found here that then linked to WebMessenger. Now I had seen this product when we started doing Blackberry rollouts for customers (and ourselves) but never investigated further. I found the first part interesting in how the company states that their mobile client is used by IBM. I never have seen anyone mention it from IBM or seen it in action. I am curious to see how that would function as an extension to our Sametime environments.
Next, Naylor says, WebMessenger will be expanding beyond Skype. "We have SIP compatibility as well, and so we're going to be rolling out similar capabilities for various SIP-enabled networks and telephony systems," he says. "On the enterprise side, we're close partners with IBM - in fact, they deploy our mobile client internally as the extension to Lotus Sametime on the desktop."
But this is the part I really enjoyed. Grabbing connectivity to other SIP providers for integrated click-to-call and conferencing.
The release of Lotus Sametime 7.5 this fall, Naylor says, will add a full set of voice capabilities. "They'll have click-to-call and Web conferencing, all tied into various telephony systems from Avaya, Siemens, Nortel, and so forth - and all of those are SIP-compliant systems as well, so we can provide that same capability out to the mobile device for them," he says.
I grabbed the Sametime integration for WebMessenger and will play with that and the Skype part on the Blackberry. Here comes the review.
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On Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 by Chris Miller
