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TMC University Adds Microsoft OCS Course to INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2008

Posted on: Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 12:00 CST

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) announced today that their TMC University division will offer a Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) training course at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2008 in Miami, Florida. The daylong course, which includes a 30-minute certification exam, will be held Wednesday, January 23rd, day one of the three-day conference.

Titled, 'Introduction to Microsoft OCS', this TMC University course offers an initial training session teaching users how to integrate Microsoft's new platform into their existing infrastructure.

According to TMC President and conference chairman, Rich Tehrani, TMC University is the only independent program of its kind. And this new OCS certification course is an overdue addition to the series.

"Since Bill Gates' unveiling of Microsoft OCS in October, enterprises have scrambled to determine the most effective way to integrate its considerable advantages into their organizations. This new course gives the necessary background for enterprise telecom and IT managers to make smart recommendations about what's best for their companies," said TMC president Rich Tehrani.

The program will be taught by Thomas Cross -- CEO TECHtionary.com, an innovative communications advisor with considerable expertise 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.

Cross commented, "OCS is the most profound innovation in telephony since digital PBX systems.""It is very likely OCS will be a 'must-have' for business communications. By adding this training course to the Miami program, attendees can attend a one-day class that prepares them to make recommendations to their companies about an OCS strategy," Cross added.

The TMC University Microsoft OCS Course consists of sessions covering the following topics:

Introduction and Overview

OCS business communications scenarios:

Instant messaging

On-premise Web conferencing

On-premise audio/video conferencing

Telephony

OCS-PBX Interoperability

This session explores and explains SIP-Session Initiation Protocol and how SIP is used to provide internet telephony functions in an OCS enterprise telephony solution. This session will explain:

SIP and versions of SIP used in OCS

SIP-to-PBX interoperability

SIP-to-IP-PBX interoperability

OCS and IP-PSTN gateway integration

Remote office telephony integration

OCS Servers

In this session, we will explore the various types of servers used in an OCS environment which include:

Mediation

Front End

Active Directory

Call Flow Scenarios

The following call flow scenarios supported by OCS will be covered in-depth:

Telephony users can connect to other telephony users by using OCS

Internal telephony users can also communicate with PSTN and PBX users

Outgoing calls

Incoming calls

Configuration and Planning

This session is designed to provide the student with an overview of key requirements for planning and implementing OCS.

Registration for the course and the entire conference is now open. Anyone interested may register by visiting http://www.itexpo.com. Limited booth space is still available as well. Vendors interested in exhibiting at the show should contact Dave Rodriguez at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146.

For information about additional Microsoft OCS training courses, and the new TMC OCS newsletter, click on this link: http://www.tmcnet.com/enews/e-newsletters/microsoft-ocs/20071205/ Default.htm (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

About TMC®

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 6,000 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com(1), TMCnet serves as many as three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. ((1)alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

Source: Business Wire

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