About NextPlane
Established in 2007, NextPlane’s vision is to extend presence-aware collaboration and communication beyond what unified communication (UC) platforms permit.
This means delivering UC agnostic federation across all modes of communications including instant messaging, multi-user chat, persistent chat rooms, web conferencing, voice and video.
The Need for Federation
Forward-looking organizations are deploying Unified Communications (UC) solutions such as Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) and IBM Lotus Sametime to improve communications, increase collaboration, and improve worker productivity. Unfortunately, many businesses are not able to enjoy these benefits across the entire enterprise because their UC solutions have not been rolled out in a universal fashion. Products such as Microsoft OCS and IBM Lotus Sametime are not inherently interoperable, so workers served by different platforms cannot share features or communicate with each other.
In some cases, different UC products have been purchased at the departmental or organizational level, with no thought towards a corporate standard. In other cases, enterprises have been left with fractured implementations as a result of corporate mergers or acquisitions. Converting to an enterprise-wide, single-vendor UC solution can be an expensive, lengthy, and impractical proposition. Moving to a single-vendor solution requires the purchase of new software licenses and support contracts – even though the costs of the product to be retired may not yet be fully depreciated. A wholesale upgrade also results in incremental deployment and training costs, places an increased burden on the IT help desk, and leaves the business solely dependent on a single supplier. Furthermore, some companies need to interwork with the UC platforms used by their business partners or customers, so a single vendor solution is out of the question.
NextPlane Unified Communication Federation Cloud
Given tight budgets these days, software-as-a-service - regardless of how it is delivered - is a very attractive option for enterprises.
NextPlane Unified Communication Federation Cloud is the world’s first hosted UC federation service that allows companies to experiment with federation across corporate and network boundaries without having to incur heavy costs up front.
NextPlane Federation Server
NextPlane Federation Server (NxPFS) delivers enterprise level connectivity between disparate UC platforms, allowing users from different organizations – even different companies – to work together as if they were served by the same UC platform, by providing full fidelity instant messaging, accurately exchange presence states.
For enterprises committed to an eventual corporate UC standard, NxPFS offers a gradual, less disruptive migration path.
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