OCS VoIP in a disaster zone

jkruse — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:56:22 GMT

Massive storms in Brisbane recently left many people homeless, and in fact it was declared a disaster zone.

One of the people who had their home destroyed in this storm was my mate Bill Lockett from Dimension Data. Our best wishes and thoughts are with him and his family during this time as they rebuild.

Bill’s house lost all power and landline communications, but fortunately Telstra’s NextG network was still online.

Bill was able to use a generator to power his laptop, and with a Polycom CX200 USB handset (which in fact he had to dry out as it was in an inch of water) and Office Communicator 2007 he was still fully able to use his work phone. No special hardware, software, or VPN required. Microsoft’s adaptive RTAudio codec ensured that call quality was excellent, despite the conditions.

Nice one Bill :)

RoundTable photos

jkruse — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:57:51 GMT

At the Microsoft Australia company meeting earlier this week I demonstrated the RoundTable camera to the local team.

Some photos were taken, including a beautiful shot of Kleefy and half-a-me.

Read the post at http://blogs.technet.com/itproaustralia/archive/2007/07/11/microsoft-office-roundtable.aspx

We've also recently deployed some of our UC phone devices. Yes that's right - we are using OCS and Office Communicator as our production phones (with Exchange UM for voicemail)!!! Read more about our internal experience at http://blogs.technet.com/itproaustralia/archive/2007/07/13/office-communicator-beta-3-and-the-catalina-device.aspx

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OCS VoIP in a disaster zone

RoundTable photos