Some information about the BiCS

[frank]

ENT_Business_Communication_Solutions_brochure_0108_EN.pdf

The Alcatel-Lucent Business integrated Communication Solution (BiCS) is a multi-service, single-server communication solution for enterprises with up to 500 users. Taking into account your market opportunities and constraints, it comes ready-to-use and delivers advanced communication applications easily and cost-effectively.

With pre-integrated applications, BiCS enables you to deploy key communication services at your on pace, enabling “pay-as-you-grow” and helping you keeping your costs under control.

You also have the opportunity to “try before you buy” with the advanced communication services.

Alcatel-Lucent's Business integrated Communication Solution features:

Communication server: Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Enterprise IP telephony & Alcatel-Lucent 4645 voice mail
Management: Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista 4760 Network Management System
Contact Center Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch Contact Center Standard Edition
Unified Communications: Alcatel-Lucent My Instant Communicator
Openness to third party application: XML APIs for simplified third party application integration
High reliability: hard disk mirroring

[goldy]

yes, looks very interesting. They have had similar attempts over the last 10 years or so, hopefully this one will be better

[torrentula]

And dual gig nics, hot swap Raid 1 Sata hard drives! Runs on IMB X3250 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 as the host OS. Then it has a virtualization layer with 3 virtual servers.


On the same hardware platform, virtual machines include:
• On a Linux Operating System: the Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Enterprise Communica-tion Server, Alcatel-Lucent 4645 Voice Messaging, IMAP4 Server, Alcatel-Lucent Con-tact Center Distribution (CCD), Alcatel-Lucent Contact Center Supervision (CCS)
• On a Windows XP Operating System: the Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista 4760 Network Management System, Client and Server, Alcatel-Lucent Contact Center Agent (CCA) server
• On a Red Hat Operating System: the OmniTouch Unified Communications applica-tion, including My Instant Communicator, which provides quick access to:
 Telephony Services
 Messaging Services
 One Number Services
 The XML WEB SERVICES framework


Frank, I PM'd you with a really good overview doc. Not sure if we can post or not, so that's why I sent to you.

[frank]

Hey TOrrentula..

I am sure you can post it

Alcatel was checking this forum, and saw that we could install the OS on VMWARE, and they though about the BiCS after !

[torrentula]

Alrighty then. See attached. It was a little big so I archived.

Enjoy!

[cavagnaro]

BiCS is what I have on my laptop since like 2 years ago I will sue Alcatel for stealing our idea

[luckyme2]

Nice, nice, very nice

[tot3nkopf]

BiCS is what I have on my laptop since like 2 years ago I will sue Alcatel for stealing our idea

Yes Cav. And we would like free flash dongles (full features license) for each one of us to run BICS on our Laptops

[cavagnaro]

Well nothing is impossible on this life I have almost everything on my lab...
Gen,OXE, OTUC, CCD... and even OTPE but I still have no time to play with it
So you only need to know the right people

[tot3nkopf]

Indeed. About the time.... same here