A financial services group and a Victorian water utility are among the first Australia customers of Microsoft and Nortel's unified communications alliance.
Austock and Wannon Water are both using networks spawned by the vendors' partnership.
The financial services group is running Microsoft's Live Communications Service and Office Communicator Software, alongside Nortel's Communications Server IP PBX, across its offices in Sydney and Melbourne. Wannon is running a similar network to foster collaboration among its 200 staff.
Microsoft and Nortel announced their four year go-to-market alliance on unified communications in July 2006. The two are promoting joint solutions based around Nortel's networking products and Microsoft software.
The companies' deployments were presented at the vendors' joint roadshow in Sydney today.
