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TMCNet: Twisted Pair Solutions and IDV Solutions Partner to Develop Communications Client for Microsoft Surface

[September 26, 2009]

Twisted Pair Solutions and IDV Solutions Partner to Develop Communications Client for Microsoft Surface

Sep 26, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Twisted Pair Solutions, a provider of unified communications software built to open standards, and IDV Solutions, an enterprise mashup and data visualization software company, announced their partnership in creating a new communications client for the Microsoft Surface computer.


Built upon Twisted Pair's WAVE software technology and using IDV's knowledge and experience in creating interactive, visual applications utilizing Microsoft SharePoint, the new WAVE for Surface application helps demonstrate the applicability of multiple Microsoft technologies to communications.

Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch computer that responds to natural hand gestures and real-world objects, helping people interact with digital content. With a horizontal user interface, Surface offers a gathering place where multiple users can collaboratively and simultaneously interact with data and each other. Using Twisted Pair's WAVE .NET Software Developers Kit (SDK), IDV Solutions created an imaginative new WAVE client for the Surface, turning it into a communications console that can bridge and patch multiple two-way radio systems such as those operated by Microsoft's own Global Security Operations Centers (GSOC).

To create a combined application, IDV Solutions paired its Silverlight WAVE interface with Visual Fusion for Surface, a version of its flagship product optimized for the multi-touch computer. With Visual Fusion for Surface, end users interact with visually consolidated data coming from any number of different sources: SharePoint, SQL Server, web feeds and services, and through the Visual Fusion SDK, virtually any other data resource.

Twisted Pair said it created WAVE, a voice-over-IP (VoIP) software platform, to bring groups together for communications. Used by defense, federal, public safety and commercial customers, WAVE allows users to extend and link private two-way radio networks so that users can communicate more effectively. In fact, by enabling interoperable communications among telephony, collaboration and messaging systems, and with group communications systems such as two-way radio, intercom, paging and broadcast systems, WAVE is powering communications, collaboration and interoperability solutions.

Further, Twisted Pair has announced the launch of WAVE 4.8, the latest version of its Voice-over-IP (VoIP) application. Microsoft will deploy WAVE 4.8 in its Global Security Operations Centers (GSOC) in the United States, Europe and India. The software will help Microsoft's GSOC build redundancy in to its global security operations by enabling communications interoperability between the different two-way radio systems currently in use around the world, as well as provide dispatch console positions for GSOC operators.

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