September 12, 2009 2:12 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
AT&T,
BT,
expense,
IBM,
inventory,
Managed Mobility Solutions,
mobile communications,
mobile service,
Security,
VerizonVerizon would love to be the sole provider of mobile communications services for every customer around the world. But, realizing that won't ever happen it is going for the next best thing- managing mobile communications for customers regardless of the mobile carrier(s) they are using.
The...
January 30, 2009 6:10 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
IBM,
Microsoft,
trends,
Unified Communications,
voice,
VoIPThe battle for unified communications supremacy rages on. The players all recognize that this is a lucrative market segment that will continue to grow and they each want to claim as big a piece of the market as they can.
Networking hardware and IP telephony hardware vendors like Cisco, Nortel,...
July 23, 2008 2:07 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
federation,
IBM,
Microsoft,
presence,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsPresence is the keystone of unified communications. The ability to identify whether or not a given user is available, and what methods of communication might be most effective with that individual at that point in time is the foundation of what enables UC to make users and business processes more...
April 11, 2008 3:31 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Dell,
IBM,
Nortel,
SCS500,
SIP,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsBuilt on an open source foundation, with the collaboration of the open source community in the SIPFoundry Project, Nortel's new SCS500 (Software Communications System) provides small and medium businesses from 30 to 500+ employees with an affordable unified communications solution. The SCS500 is a...
March 23, 2008 3:12 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
IBM,
interoperability,
Lotus Sametime,
Microsoft,
UCC,
Unified Communications,
VoiceConIn my last post, I mentioned that the lack of standards and platform interoperability was one of the biggest issues for early adopters of Unified Communications technologies. Microsoft and IBM are two of the biggest players in the Unified Communications arena. Microsoft is aggressively pushing for...
March 12, 2008 3:18 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
IBM,
Office Communications Server 2007,
Office Communicator 2007,
SIP,
UCC,
Unified Communications,
VoIPNot wanting to be left out of the next big wave in network / office communications, IBM this week announced that they have earmarked $1 Billion (With a 'B'. The one with 9 zeros after it) for internal development...