Aastra Press Release:

As a leading company at the forefront of the IP communication market, Aastra will be exhibiting its advanced range of unified communications (UC) solutions at this year's IP Expo. Entirely dedicated to enterprise communications, Aastra offers one of the most complete portfolios of UC solutions that can be tailored to satisfy individual customer requirements.

Aastra will be demonstrating its range of deskphones which are optimised for Microsoft® Lync^TM These phones passed vigorous testing and their qualification ensures the Aastra 6721ip and 6725ip will provide a high quality user experience, with 'just works' installation, rich audio and a lower total cost of ownership, making them powerful UC devices.

View the full Aastra press release

UC = Unified Communications.

So the Snom300 and Snom821 UC editions are now `qualified for use with Microsoft Lync 2010`.

Snom have also launched the UC600. A USB phone which is `optimized for Microsoft Lync`.

For full details on the announcement, see the full UC release.

If you want to place an order, contact your account manager at ProVu.

The main USP of the Snom UC edition phones is that they are a phone for Lync but also a full open standards SIP phone. This gives a few options:

• Deploy SIP now, and upgrade to UC with Lync in the future


• Use SIP for voice, but use Snom UC for presence. This shadow system is a very good way to migrate.

So buy the Snom UC edition to have a phone which is both a stand alone SIP phone and a UC phone for Lync. Protect your investment by buying open standards.

Aastra Press Release:

"Aastra, a leading company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market, today announced it has successfully completed interoperability testing with SmartSIP 2.0 for Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010 from Network Equipment Technologies (NET). This interoperability allows Aastra’s award winning SIP-DECT mobility solution and broad portfolio of standards based SIP phones, to be used as voice endpoints on Microsoft® LyncTM."...

View the full Aastra press release

Following on from the recent news that the Snom300 is compatible with OCS 2007R2, Snom have also joined the "Compatible Devices Program for Lync 2010". This means that it is continuing it's development of "OCS" firmware to include the new features that will be present in the future Lync release.

Lync is the new name Microsoft has given to the next version of OCS, it was generally referred to as Wave14 until this official name was released. Lync is currently at the public beta stage so not yet ready for production use.

ProVu will be testing Lync with Snom phones in due course and Snom themselves will be developing the new features possible with Lync.

Last week we brought you the news that the snom 300 has achieved official certification from Microsoft for use with the Office Communication Server 2007 R2. This is big news for any one involved with snom phones as OCS is gradually making it's way into some big corporate customers.

Anyway, the reason for this second blog is that you can now find the Snom 300 listed on Microsoft's Compatible Devices Program website here:

Phones and Devices for Microsoft Office Communicator

This is the first step in getting all snom phones with OCS firmware certified, this should just be a matter of time since the firmware on each is basically the same code base.

Snom300 phones are now approved by Microsoft for connection to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2


Just to confuse you, OCS is is being renamed to Microsoft Lync

Read Snom Press release


Of course, ProVu as a Snom distributor are today launching their Snom OCS support service. We can support Snom phones on Microsoft OCS Platforms.