Mitel & Sun Collaboration
I sometimes chide my friend Dan York about not sharing enough information about what's going on at Mitel. We all know Dan for his great with with Jonathan Zar on BlueBox Podcast, but Dan't also one of the keen minds that keeps Mitel in the forefront of what's going on with unified communications.
He mentioned today that he hasn't had much time to write about the Mitel Forum last week or the collaboration that's going on between Mitel and Sun Microsystems.
First announced June 19th, there are really two components to the collaboration: 1) the Multi-Instance Call Server (MICS) that can have up to 200 instances of our 3300 ICP call control software running on a Sun server; and 2) a very cool integration of a SunRay thin client computer into the base of one of our phones. With the phones, a user can simply insert their "Java card" into the base of the phone and the user is automagically signed onto the computer and to the phone. Pull the card out, the user is logged out. Insert another user's card and the computer and the phone are logged in as that user. It takes the "hot desking" we've had for years and extends that to now also include the PC. As I said, it's very cool!Very cool indeed. And while Dan hasn't had time to give all the details, today he pointed to the video below from Sun blogger Craig Bender, a.k.a. the "Thin Guy", who writes the Sun Ray Blog. It gives us a taste of waht Sun and Mitel are doing. And Craig has another video up on YouTube if you want to go get more.
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