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The Thrupoint Fusion UC app can tie into UC servers from , Avaya and Microsoft, via a session management middleware application now called Thrupoint Fusion Service Broker. Both , along with a battery of related SIP applications, are from , a New York City-based collaboration software vendor. The new mobile app extends existing enterprise UC capabilities first to iPad users and then, later this year, to tablet users.

The new iOS app could be downloaded by a bank's high-end customers for example, to create a tailored collaboration between those customers and their personal financial manager at the bank, blending voice, IM, video, and shared documents.

With the new app, Thrupoint also provided new details about its Thrupoint Fusion Service Broker, which features a package of interfaces, dubbed "adaptations," to interoperate with backend PBXs and other applications from a variety of vendors. In effect, the broker stitches together these multi-vendor UC solutions into a common set of features across client devices. "It opens a packet, and sees it's from Cisco and then translates it into a 'language' the [non-Cisco] target can understand," says Sajeel Hussain, Thrupoint's vice president of marketing.

A bunch of scripting templates let IT administrators write a few lines of code to create custom adaptations for Service Broker. And a policy creation application lets administrators set access and rules for users, and other interfaces let still other third party applications be integrated into a given UC session. The Service Broker can also "translate" between SIP and HTTP/HTML5 communications, according to Hussain.