ENHANCES MICROSOFT OCS:

• SmartSIP enables customers to use their existing SIP-based phones with Microsoft OCS
• SmartSIP is a software application that runs on a Microsoft Mediation Server, providing:
  • OCS voice interoperability for SIP devices
  • UC presence for SIP devices inside of Microsoft Communicator
• SmartSIP supports major vendor handsets 
   
  

Allow SIP endpoints to interoperate with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

SmartSIP is an enterprise application built using Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API (UCMA) to address the interoperability of legacy SIP endpoints and Microsoft unified communications. SmartSIP extends enterprises’ existing SIP endpoints for use with Microsoft’s Office Communications Server (OCS) and reduces operating expenses by automatically provisioning the endpoints.
 
Get more from your Microsoft OCS investment by enhancing the capabilities of the mediation server with automatic endpoint provisioning and presence integration. Extending presence and status enables employees better access to their coworkers making communications easier and companies more productive.
 
With the growing popularity of Unified Communications, businesses looking to migrate to Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) are looking to extend the useful life of their existing SIP Phones. They need their SIP phones to work seamlessly with Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS).

Architecture

The SmartSIP is implemented as a back to back user agent (B2BUA). This architecture allows for different implementations of SIP protocols to coexist. Therefore, as an example, Cisco implementation of SIP protocol can work with Microsoft’s SIP implementation.

The SmartSIP core contains a SIP Proxy, a SIP Registrar, and a SIP Phone provisioning server. The architecture components can handle external communication to other network elements such as a PSTN gateway, internal communications such as registering SIP phones, and provides a trusted network connection to the Microsoft OCS network using UCMA. The other components include a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) where the phone configuration files are stored and a Web server for web based graphical user interface.

SmartSIP works with many of the leading IP phones