Mitel adding more Blackberry integration to its UC offering

RIM has really stepped up its unified communications (UC) game this week during its WES 2010 event. Mitel is the latest company to introduce a Blackberry UC offering, joining the Blackberry Alliance program and preparing to release Mitel Mobility for BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5.

Mitel plans to demo its UC/Blackberry combo at the WES show with the solution pairing features of the Mitel Communications Director with the mobility features of BlackBerry MVS 5 across corporate networks. The new solution provides call hand-offs between devices so users can answer a call with their desk phone, continue the call on their BlackBerry, and then move the call to their home phone line.

On top of this new focus on integrating Blackberry into its UC offering, Mitel has already deployed features for mobile users like using Mitel Unified Communicator Advanced Mobile Portal to access UCC info, corporate contacts, voicemail and using Mitel's Dynamic Location based on a mobile device's GPS to update their presence on Mitel's Dynamic Status system.

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