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Lookout for Unified Communications

Products

UC Planet specializes in providing complementary value-added software on top of Microsoft UC platform. We provide software tools to aid in planning and deploying Microsoft OCS in production environment. Our customers are OCS customers as well as System Integrators responsible for deploying OCS for others.

UC Planet Lookout family of products helps plan for and manage WAN bandwidth as OCS is rolled out across multiple sites and geographies.

Lookout 1.5

UC Planet Lookout 1.5 is the industry's first dynamic WAN Bandwidth Management (WBM) software for Microsoft OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2. Lookout 1.0 enables the OCS administrators and network administrators to:

  • Group the Microsoft Office Communicator (MOC) users into logical "sites" or "locations"
  • Limit calls from/to certain locations (such as remote or overseas offices)
  • Assess the usage for capacity planning and for managing available bandwidth as new users, sites and communications modes are provisioned


UC Planet Lookout 1.5 software provides dynamic WAN Bandwidth Management (WBM) capabilities to customers who wish to avail these functions as they roll out Microsoft OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2 for voice, video and conferencing. The software implements WAN Bandwidth Management as an add-on to OCS.

In contrast to traditional piecemeal Call Admission Control (CAC) solutions, Lookout offers comprehensive and consolidated UC WAN Bandwidth Management. Lookout supports the following UC functionality, not available through any other product in its category:

  • Roaming Users
  • Multiple communication modes (audio, video and conferencing)
  • Call escalation (i.e. IM->Audio->Video)
  • Calls between federated domains
Custom Software Development

As customers embrace software-centric UC vision from Microsoft, they may wish to customize OCS to more closely meet their unique requirements. These include simple features like customized policies in Active Directory, custom SQL reporting, to merging dial plans to more advanced customizations. Further, we believe Microsoft OCS is not just a product but a platform that over time will become integrated into line of business applications. We draw upon our team's decades of experience and knowledge in Windows programming, OCS SDK, PBX and Cisco networking to give customers a one-stop shop for custom development in Microsoft .NET/C# and LAMP development environments.

We are currently working with some of the leading video conferencing vendors to integrate their offerings with Microsoft OCS.

Contact us to discuss your OCS customization and integration needs into PBXes, conferencing systems and other LOB applications.