QubeConnect reached a significant milestone when the company signed an agreement with Microsoft to develop and deliver interoperability for the latter’s unified communications framework.

This collaboration, is the first of its kind outside the United States of America, will herald a new era in unified communications with QubeConnect providing the necessary link between Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) and non-Microsoft communications platforms.

The agreement, signed on May 21, 2008 during the World Congress of Information Technology (WCIT) in Malaysia, would also allow QubeConnect to provide their own solutions, together with either an open source or other proprietary communications platforms the seamless ability to communicate using Microsoft OCS.

Microsoft’s OCS is a communication suite that offers voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications, instant and unified messaging, conferencing and other collaborative applications when tied to its Exchange Server 2007. It runs on the Windows platform and as such, its reach is limited to users and organizations on the same platform.

With QubeConnect, companies on different platforms can link their communications systems to Microsoft’s OCS without the need to invest in huge capital expenditure.

“Organizations have invested a lot into their telecommunications systems and instead of replacing it, they can now maintain their current infrastructure and invest in our IP PBX to extend their communication reach,” said QubeConnect chief executive officer, Sin Hock Kian.

“Users from different computing platforms will no longer need a huge capex on new infrastructure to link their systems to Microsoft’s OCS. QubeConnect has simplified this process through a single client solution without compromising communications quality,” he added.