HP Whitepaper - Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Now Available!

I am happy to announce the release of HP’s whitepaper for designing a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) architecture, highlighting F5 for high availability. As many of you know, OCS is the cornerstone of Microsoft’s unified communications platform. Microsoft requires the use of a hardware load balancer for any deployment of OCS 2007, Enterprise Edition. F5 has worked with the Microsoft OCS product team in Redmond for years and has done far more extensive testing with OCS than any other networking vendor.

I expect this whitepaper to be a great selling tool for you. I am aware of at least one large opportunity that has already come to F5 as a direct result of this document.

This graphic is on page 23 of the whitepaper:


The attached whitepaper will be posted very soon at: http://www.f5.com/microsoft (“White Papers” section).
Here is a link to our Deployment Guide for OCS: http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/microsoft-ocs-ltm94-dg.pdf
Also check out this OCS Performance Report, written by HP, referencing BIG-IP: http://www.f5.com/pdf/solution-center/ocs-uc-hp-f5-performance.pdf (will soon be posted on f5.com/Microsoft as well).

Jakub Sumpich, 10. července 2008