Unified Communications

Finding the right unified collaboration solutions for your organization

"Collaboration" is when mutiple components work with one another. In turn, a unified collaboration solution can involve many moving parts. This can make choosing a solution overwhleming...

Microsoft Lync saves Sprint millions…literally

As many sessions held during Enterprise Connect 2012 pointed out, user adoption of enterprise-grade UC tools has been a point of...

Consumerization of IT reviving aim of UC

The hype around unified communications (UC) has been percolating for years, yet by and large there's been a disconnect (pun intended) among enterprises to develop and execute forward-thinking, comprehensive UC strategies. Ready or not, the

Is Skype good enough for business communications? Not for this user

I know some of you are big-time Skype fans, but when you have call quality issues when talking to Skype via Skype, there's a...

Weekend UC comic relief: Track Santa with Avaya, play conference call bingo with LifeSize

With the holiday season upon us, it seems that we're all either slaving away to get things done before the holiday or mentally checked out until New Year's. Either way, you probably could use this little UC-themed 

Enterprise pits iPad vs. laptop: Which one gets clobbered?

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Customers to benefit from AVST and NEC partnership

March 29, 2010  12:18 PM

Siemens-Polycom-Enterasys? Interesting possible merger

Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco, enterprise video, HP, mergers & acquisitions, Polycom, Siemens Enterprise Networks, Tandberg, Unified Communications, video conferencing market consolidation, videoconferencing, voicecon

During my travels to and from VoiceCon last week, I missed this little nugget about Gores Group approaching Polycom for a possible merger with Siemens-Enterasys. Citing "people familiar with the...

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March 24, 2010  10:29 AM

Voicecon: Is the market ready for EnterpriseConnect

Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Unified Communications, voicecon

As Leigha noted, TechWeb is retiring the VoiceCon conference name this year, renaming its 20-year-old conference EnterpriseConnect. This is meant to reflect the changing nature of the conference. It's...

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March 24, 2010  8:27 AM

VoiceCon 2010: reorganizing IT for unified communications

Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Unified Communications, videoconferencing, voicecon

The organizational impact of unified communications has interested me for a few years, ever since I heard a couple network engineers at Interop joking about how useless and difficult traditional telecom engineers are. I've since heard those sentiments echoed, perhaps a little more politely, many...

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