Real time chat implementation for SharePoint

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I have a client interested in a real time chat application for a SharePoint intranet portal to enable online interview style chat sessions.

Has anyone got reccomendations for a product on the Microsoft Stack that does this? Something that is integrated into SharePoint would be prefferable, but any ASP.NET product would suffice.

The solution would need to be pretty robust as we would expect over 1000 users during a given session.

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Microsoft Office Communication Server is the way Microsoft intended chat for SharePoint. I dont know if its just for 1 to 1 communcation or if there is a good multi-user support.

Another way to implement chat (or IM) in SharePoint is to use Windows Live Messanger and the green precense icon which shows up to the left of all names in SharePoint. But this is probably not the way you want to use chat.

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