Sending SMS messages via Communicator

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If you are using PIC (Public IM Connectivity) in OCS, you can send SMS messages to any capable phone in North America, via AOL's SMS Gateway simply by sending a message to an E.164 normalized phone number. IE: +16128591899 and appending the AOL domain name, aol.com.

While this is fairly useful by itself, for it to be extremely useful you'd have to take advantage of this via one of the UC APIs. For example, you could use the UC AJAX API and Speech Server to send a SMS message to caller confirmation details of their call OR maybe you create an IM bot with UCMA v 1.0 that sends a transcript of the chat to the user’s SMS device. The possibilities are endless...

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