TechContrarian

Cisco and Microsoft are competitors in the unified communications space, with very different visions and product approaches – I don’t think that’s going to come as a surprise to anyone.   Nor should it be a surprise that many customers have Cisco networking and telephony gear along with desktop, messaging and collaboration software from Microsoft and want our products to interoperate together well in the customer’s environment. 
To Microsoft, that means we want to offer customers software that runs great on Cisco networks.  With Office Communications Server’s support for the Cisco ISR platform, great support for DSCP packet marking to deliver QoS, VLAN tagging, and many more technologies, we are delivering a lot of capabilities so customers can get the most out of their Cisco network investments. 
We also look to interoperate broadly using open standards with Cisco products in unified communications.   As part of both companies’ commitments to our customers [...]