Updated 6-3-2010

 

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“MCS Moving into Mainstream”

http://www.mcsforum.org

 

MCS Forum 2010 Expo – June 15-16 – Boulder, Colorado

 

St Julien Hotel - 2008 Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards - "Top 100 United States Hotels" www.stjulien.com

 

Highlights - Speakers

MCS Forum (formerly known as OCS Forum), 2010 Expo highlights the rising importance of Microsoft Communications Server to businesses, organizations and institutions of all sizes.  By all accounts, MCS will be a viable PBX-replacement, telecommunications, call center, remote/branch office, telecommuter, mobile, video, presence, IM, conferencing solution to nearly every other aspect of communications.  Speakers have been identified that can address present concerns, ongoing issues and the future outlook of MCS. 

 

Exhibitors include: Polycom, 911ETC, Fontel, FaceTime, Gold Systems, NET, Aastra, SNOM, Novus, Uncommon Solutions, AudioCodes, GreenAppx, and FaxCore.

 

Monday – June 14

            5:00-7:00 PM                Welcome and MCS Forum Sponsored Cocktail Reception – Dinner-on-your-own

 

Tuesday - June 15

            7:00                              Registration Desk Open

 

            7:30-8:30                      Breakfast in Exhibit Hall

           

            9:00-9:30                                                          Session – “Welcome & MCS Moving into Mainstream”

 

            9:30-10:00                                                        Session – Microsoft Communications Server Meets Social Networking – “Presence Goes Social" (details below)

                                                                                - MCS Opens Up To Communications Interoperability - "Microblogging"

                                                                                - Personal Presence & Personal Social Networks - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

                                                                                - Gold Systems Social Center - Rich Context & Realtime Communications in One App

                                                                                Terry Gold - Founder, CEO & President  

 

            10:00-11:00                  Coffee/Exhibits

 

            11:00-12:00                                                      Session – Migration-Survivability-Reliability - (details below)

                                                                                Alan Percy - Director of Market Development - Audio Codes

           

            12:00                            Lunch/Exhibits

           

            1:30-3:00                                                          Session – Microsoft Communications Server 14 - Voice drilldown

                                                                                - CS14 voice features

                                                                                - From PBX to CS14

                                                                                                  CS14 and OCS 2007 R2 design & chalktalk

                                                                                                - Design considerations

                                                                                - OCS 2007 R2 architecture overview and sizing

                                                                                - CS14 architecture changes

                                                                                                Francois Doremieux - Principal Program Manager - Microsoft Communication Server Product Group

 

            3:00-3:30                      Coffee/Exhibits

            3:30-5:00                                                          Session - MCS Past to Presence – (details below)

                                                                                                            

            5-6:00                           Exhibits and Reception

 

Wednesday – June 16

            8:00                              Registration Desk Open

 

            8:00-9:00                      Breakfast in Exhibit Hall

                                                           

            9:00-10:00                                                        Coffee/Exhibits - Spend Time With Exhibitors

 

            10:00-11:30                                                      Session – Security, Management and Compliance for OCS (see below)

 

            11:30-12:00                                                      Session – MCS-SIP Future Network Architectures - (see below)

                                                           

            12:00                            Adjourn

 

Venue-Fees

The MCS Forum 2010 Expo will be held June 15-16 at the St. Julien Hotel (www.stjulien.com) in Boulder, Colorado named 2008 Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards - "Top 100 United States Hotels" and other awards. 

 

Fees for attendees are $795.00 until the event.   

 

This is the tentative schedule and terms above subject to change without notice or liability.

 

Questions or comments, please contact Tom Cross 303-594-1694 – cross@gocross.com

 

 

 

MCS Forum Expo Speaker Presentations Include:

 

NEW - Microsoft Communications Server Meets Social Networking – “Presence Goes Social”

- MCS Opens Up To Communications Interoperability - "Microblogging"

- Personal Presence & Personal Social Networks - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

- Gold Systems Social Center - Rich Context & Realtime Communications in One App

Terry Gold - Founder, CEO and President - Gold Systems - www.goldsys.com

 

Microsoft Communications Server provides a set of rich development tools and a comprehensive development environment for easily creating applications that increase productivity and add value for companies and users.  Software standards help meet enterprise requirements. Because Microsoft Communications Server interoperates with other Microsoft products, developers can respond to important customer requirements.  The open standards and environment demonstrate the ability to deliver innovative software with useful communications features in the workplace. As an example, Gold Systems turned to core technology in Microsoft Communications Server to build a new application called Gold Systems Social Center.  The company wanted to combine the up-to-date information found on social networks with the power of real-time communications and collaboration tools.  Gold Systems Social Center helps people work with the rich context provided through social networks and react with the seamless communications provided by Microsoft Communications Server.  As a unified communications expert, Gold Systems develops other applications that bridge voice and data networks to add value to Microsoft Communications Server, demonstrating the power and flexibility of the technology to meet the needs of business communications.Gold Systems is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that specializes in unified communications and IP-based telephony solutions. The company provides voice-driven software products and IT solutions to companies in a range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, utilities, and government. As a Microsoft Partner of the Year 2009 Award Finalist in Unified Communications, Gold Systems enables the power of software to deliver complete UC - messaging, voice and video - across the applications and devices that people depend on every day for anywhere access.

 

"Managing Migration Madness" - Migration-Survivability-Reliability

 

·        Microsoft MCS Migration – from start to finish

·        Using Active Directory to smooth organization migration to MCS

·        Drop and Insert – adding MCS without spending money on older TDM PBXs

·        Branch Offices and MCS – Survivability techniques

·        Improving Reliability at the core with “Crossover Gateway Resiliency”

·        AudioCodes SPS – When it’s time to forklift out the PBX - PBX to MCS – No Rush – Easing the Transition”

·       SIP Trunking with MCS – Interoperability and Security Solutions

 

Mr. Percy is Director of Market Development at AudioCodes, a leading provider of Voice over IP Telephony products and enabling technology. In this role, Mr. Percy is responsible for identifying market trends and building relationships to foster new business opportunities.  Mr. Percy joined AudioCodes in 2001 and brings over two decades of experience in the telecommunications, networking and wireless equipment industries.  Mr. Percy is a frequent industry speaker and contributes to a number of industry journals and blogs including “The SIP Invite” and “NoJitter.com” 

 

 

MCS from Past to Presence

 

- By 2012 Presence will be the standard

            - 80s someone called your desk (pink message slip)

            - Then voice mail could be sent to another location

            - Now can enable and block presence. Partners and vendors can see your calendar, live meetings cut travel times, traceable IMs allow for instant communication

- You Can Set MCS and Forget It

- MCS vs PBX – Why?

            - Can I leverage my current equipment?

            - Get rid of your PBX lines

            - Projects on IT lists can be rolled into MCS

- MCS Will Replace Email – But Don’t Tell Microsoft

            - Gen Y isn’t emailing

            - Exchange will be a Unified Communication platform

            - Will reduce email storage space

- Traceback Traceability

            - Social networking – companies don’t know what employees are saying

            - Allow employees to communicate but protect your liability

 

Scott Scribner is an MCS Certified, Microsoft Gold Partner. He was a Covad Premiere Partner in San Jose, CA and has 10 years experience migrating and integrating PBX’s to VoIP systems. With the synergy of his 25 years of IT experience and his communications background, he is able to offer an appliance-based solution to MCS. Scott is the Chief Infrastructure Architect for Uncommon Solutions, Inc., a Managed IT Solutions company.

 

NEW - Security, Management and Compliance for OCS

 

Whether it's ensuring your users only utilize OCS and blocking access to other real time communications tool, or applying disclaimers, setting user policy and archiving chats for compliance, FaceTime's solutions integrate full with OCS.  From OCS Platform reporting to ethical walls in Group Chat, and Live Meeting management and recording you'll find out more about:

Key requirements of a highly scalable architecture for supporting corporate and mobile workers in a UC environment. 

 

MCS-SIP Future Network Architectures

 

According to Mr. Matt Jolly TECHtionary & MCS Forum CTO, “while you may certainly argue that customers may select Avaya (Nortel), Microsoft MCS, NEC, Cisco, ShoreTel, Siemens, Alcatel, Asterisk or other Open Source for their voice IP-PBX solutions, it is almost a certainty they will have Cisco routers, switches and other Cisco gear in their network.  We wanted to provide an educational platform for exploring planning and designing a future-centric/proof resilient fault-protected network.   “To that end, considerable research and development went into this new section which will be presented at MCS Forum Expo and included in the SIP 2010 course available for customer training venues,” noted Tom Cross CEO.  In addition, “integration of IMS-IP Multimedia Systems was also added as there is no network without a discussion of all forms for broadband wireless,” Cross added.

 

SIP-Session Initiation Protocol Network Architectures

- SIP Signaling-Server Virtualization - Benefits of Server Virtualization aka Abstraction

            - Distributed user endpoints and application servers

            - Scalable growth with QoS-Quality of Service control abstraction

            - MACS* via signaling "abstraction"

            *Moves, Adds, Changes & SAS-Stand Alone Survivability - SAS enables backup for SIP devices by the multiple "abstract" local or cloud SBC-Session Border Controllers and Media Gateway(s).

 

- SIP Trunking - Benefits of SIP Trunking

            - Session and Signaling control layers for:

                        - On-net (IP PBX to IP PBX)

                        - Off-net (IP PBX to local PSTN)

                        - Off-net (IP PBX to LD/IDDD PSTN)

                        - SPOC/SMOC-Single/Multiple Point of Connection

                        - National control points for access (vendors)

                        - Migration path to ALL-SIP & IMS-3GPP

 

- SIP Number Transparency - Benefits of Number Transparency

            - End-to-end media control (transparency) for voice or other media types

            - Access to SS7-Signaling System 7 applications for text messaging, mobility or call center routing

            - Enterprise control over call completion whether PSTN or SIP rather than provider

            - Migration path to E.164 & IMS-IP Multimedia Service & 3GPP-Third Generation Partner Project Release 6

 

- SIP Routing - Benefits of SIP Routing

            - Eliminates "mesh" network mess

            - Add intelligent Session Layer 5 routing

            - Maintains end-to-end media transparency

            - Add media CoS-Classes of Service

            - Adds SPOC-Single Point of Contact with NOC-Network Operations Center

            - Migration path to ALL-SIP & IMS-3GPP

           

- SIP Proxy Peering Networks - Benefits of SIP Proxy Peering Networks

            - Platform for multi-vendor services

            - Ensures multiple CoS & QoS options

            - Migration path to ALL-SIP & IMS-3GPP

            - Foundation for any future network needs

 

Thomas B. Cross – CEO TECHtionary.com, MCS Forum & Tele/Presence Forum has three decades of experience in startups and consulting advisor with leading providers and venture capital companies in market planning and development, hardware/software design and development, project management, intellectual property in telecommunications, information technology, conferencing, teletraining, telecommuting, groupware, networks, call centers, internet, artificial intelligence and other fields. He has managed the successful development of more than 10 software, hardware and internet products to market and received industry awards for this work. He has authored 13 books, wrote, produced and directed 15 commercial videos and creator and producer of the World's Largest Animated Knowledge Source on Technology – http://www.techtionary.com – recipient of Web Hosting Magazine Editors Choice for Best Technical Help.  Tom is a columnist for many leading publications Technology Editor and columnist on MCS-Microsoft Communications Service Newsletter with a blog at http://crosstalk-techtionary.blogspot.com.  He is a member of the Technical Board of Advisors for the VoIPSA-VoIP Security Alliance. Tom holds CompTIA Certified Security Professional certification and Pearson Vue Certified Test Administrator.  

 

Tour of Boulder:

http://www.MCSforum.com/news/Hotel-MCSForum.htm

 

NOTE: Microsoft has deleted the term Office and now refers the product as Microsoft Communications Server 14 which is why we changed the name to MCS.  Microsoft may make further name changes. Some companies may refer to the product as OCS or MCS.

 

Speakers and presentations subject to change without notice or liability.