Nortel To Integrate Communication Capabilities With IBM LotusLive

Nortel is collaborating with IBM to integrate its communication functions, initially voice and conferencing, with IBM’s LotusLive. LotusLive is a new hosted social networking and collaboration service designed to help business customers maximise productivity with easy file sharing, e-mail, Web conferencing and online event services over the Internet.

To enable quick and easy voice communication in IBM’s LotusLive, Nortel has integrated click-to-call and click-to-conference capabilities via Nortel’s new Communications as a Service (CaaS) Transaction Broker application announced yesterday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The communication services that integrate with LotusLive services will be hosted and offered by service providers and enabled by Nortel.

Nortel’s CaaS Transaction Broker allows communication services like conferencing, click-to-call, instant message (IM), video, and media services to be easily integrated into Software-as-a-Service offerings, gaming environments, social networking sites, Web mail, and wireless TV.

Samih Elhage, president, Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions, Nortel, said, “Today, the communication business is no longer about selling a phone line to a home or business. It’s about being able to easily add communication services like conferencing, IM and video into any online network service like social networks and online gaming. The integration of Nortel’s CaaS with IBM’s LotusLive application is just one example of how this business solution can help carriers easily add these revenue generating communication services to their networks.”