The technology combines Openwave's Unified Communications software and Cisco's AS5300 Voice Gateways. Each company will add the services of their engineers to help with integration and reliability. Looking carefully at the Unified Communication Architecture technology it is unclear how the companies decided what role each would play. These giant companies have obvious overlapping strengths. Openwave Inc. not only develops software for voice solutions, but is also a platform provider wireless internet access gateways.
Cisco produces servers and hardware that the internet and wireless internet run on.
It appears as if one or two of these companies could have produced the Unified Communications Architecture by themselves. Each companies emphasizes collaboration as a real strength in the offering. These infrastructures include not only the actual technology but sales infrastructures too. During a conversation with Dean Douglas, General Manager of Wireless E-business Americas for IBM Global services, he explained that IBM's interest also lay in the shared client bases. There is a large base of clients using Openwave products.