Formation of Alliance
Nortel and Microsoft announced the Innovative Communications Alliance in July 2006. 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, 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.
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