04.05.2009

Ferrari electronic – the first German manufacturer certified for OCS R2

Berlin/Teltow, April 30th, 2009. Ferrari electronic, long-standing Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has successfully certified the product family OfficeMaster Gate for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The OCS R2 release covers several new functions, so the existing certification had to be renewed by expanded tests series. OfficeMaster Gate now is officially "qualified Gateway for OCS 2007 R2" as well as "qualified Gateway for OCS 2007", see Microsoft website under technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb735838.aspx.

At the certification a special focus was taken on the encrypted communications (SRTP and TLS) to guarantee a secure telephony.

Ferrari electronic is active in the field of VoIP media gateways for OCS and Exchange 2007 for about two years. Together with its resellers the Unified Communications specialist (based in Berlin) already could fully convince numerous enterprises with the new communications possibilities. Because of the innovative technologies of Microsoft and Ferrari electronic, integrated communication systems (e-mail, telephony, instant messaging, audio/video and unified messaging) can be built up very elegant. In particular, distributed installations for several sites can be realised very smart: For each site only one OfficeMaster Gate is needed to connect to the public telephone network - all server components are operated, however, centrally which drastically reduces the costs and the administration overhead.

OfficeMaster Gate transforms the ISDN protocols to the Microsoft-specific SIP protocols and SIP to Euro ISDN. The approved Ferrari electronic product family supports 1-4 ISDN basic rate interfaces and 1-2 primary rate interfaces. The entry-level systems can be modularly upgraded by software licenses, for example from 1 x S2M to 2 x S2M without need to change the hardware.

Additional fields of application

OfficeMaster Gate goes beyond the approach of a media gateway because OfficeMaster Gate is also a classical ISDN controller! Combined with OfficeMaster for Exchange, Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft Small Business Server OfficeMaster Gate brings fax, SMS, voice mail and CTI services comfortably to every Outlook user.

More detailed information about the certified OfficeMaster Gate is available under www.mediagateway.de.