As part of its driveto embed further its Blackberry smartphone at the heart of
business critical applications and services,
ResearchIn Motion (RIM) has launched a BlackBerry
Mobile Voice System (MVS) Server for Cisco’s Unified Communications
Manager.
The latter product is
designed to unify and
control corporate voice services on the BlackBerry and is
optimised for use with Cisco Unified Communications Manager version
6.1 or later. The BlackBerry MVS Server is available for a variety
of telecommunications environments, including support for mixed TDM
and IP PBX environments.
RIM believes the combination will make mobile workers more
employees more accessible and productive regardless of their
location and will empower organisations with the
management and control of corporate voice services.
Key features include a ‘reach me anywhere’ corporate phone
number; one caller ID and one voice mailbox for both the Cisco
Unified IP desk phone and BlackBerry; simultaneous or sequential
ringing of up to four devices, including BlackBerry smartphones and
Cisco Unified IP Phones; access to Unified Communications telephony
functions such as call transfer and extension dialling; the ability
to make calls from the smartphone using either the BlackBerry phone
number or enterprise line; the ability to transition an in-session
call from a BlackBerry smartphone to the user’s Cisco Unified IP
Phone.
The solution offers deep integration with BlackBerry Enterprise
Server and direct SIP integration between Cisco Unified
Communications Manager and BlackBerry MVS Server for improved
manageability, scalability and ease of deployment. Furthermore,
aiming to provide added security, manageability and functionality,
outbound calls from the BlackBerry will automatically authenticate
and route through BlackBerry Enterprise Server and Cisco Unified
Communications Manager.
Commented Laurent Philonenko, vice president and general
manager, Cisco Unified Communications business unit, “The
integrated solution now enables IT professionals to manage mobile
costs by extending corporate voice policy to their mobile devices,
while offering BlackBerry smartphone users a rich set of familiar
enterprise features.”