Microsoft has recently clarified the deprecation of Dual Forking and Remote Call Control (RCC) in future releases of Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007. Specifically, the Microsoft Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program (OIP) will no longer provide vendors the opportunity to certify their products against OCS with support for Dual Forking and RCC. Direct SIP will be the only remaining functionality to certify against.
This has many customers that have recently deployed products that had included certified support for Dual Forking & RCC in the OIP (for example Nortel’s Converged Office for OCS) concerned about what the future held for them. Well according to this article, Microsoft will support these installations into the next release of OCS (Wave 14). However, net new installations would NOT be supported in Wave 14 where Dual-Forking and RCC are concerned. While the article doesn’t specifically say how much more time this gives these customers before they are faced with the prospect of what to do once the next release after Wave 14 appears, I would suspect they have until late 2011 before having to make this decision.
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