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[FinData - Singapore Stock Exchange [SGX] News] Press Release: Frost and Sullivan: Australian Unified ...: IP telephony will experience good growth, accounting for 34.3 percent of UC revenues in 2015, while traditional telephony will decline and account for 5.3 percent of revenues.  Indeed, the changing nature of how employees operate by being mobile and the growing demand for fixed-mobile convergence will drive greater adoption of softphones in the Australian market.

[Frost.com - Market Engineering Research] The Choice Between Hosted and Premise-Based UC Solutions: These gateways bridge the gap between legacy TDM-based communications with the latest UC IP-enabled technologies, providing integrated UC across the enterprise. NET has developed partnerships with UC vendors such as Microsoft in order to ensure interoperability of the UC platforms with multiple different PBXs and other communications solutions on the customers' premises.

[VoiceCon Unified Communications] The Forum for Business IP Telephony - VoiceCon Conference & Events ...: And the good news is that VoiceCon Orlando showcased the availability of communications and collaboration capabilities that the industry has been talking about for decades, at precisely the moment when almost every company is acknowledging that the old ways of doing business simply won’t do. In short, it really is a remarkable point in history: The means to fundamentally change how we communicate are at our disposal, and the incentives to change couldn’t be more obvious.

[VoiceCon Enews] The Forum for Business IP Telephony - VoiceCon Conference & Events ...: One key recommendation that Irwin makes in his slides (and has made in his No Jitter blog) is to have a “UC Director,” someone tasked with overseeing UC for the organization. I’m sure that the scope of this role will vary from company to company””he or she may be more of a coordinator or liaison here, more of a technology guru there, or may have a more formal role like CIO in other organizations.

[Frost.com - Information and Communication Technologies Research] Avaya/Nortel: A Match Made in Heaven?: It does have a following with its KTS systems within the SMB space, but as Cisco restructures its own commercial (SMB) business unit, and Avaya potentially takes on Nortel's SMB product portfolio (of which the PingTel acquisition is a big component), SMBs will either look to these vendors, where they have a one-stop shop to buy everything, with the advantage of nice discounts; or they will look at niche vendors such as Mitel or ShoreTel, who can provide a level of service more in tune with SMB needs, rather than a large multicultural company like NEC.

[VoiceCon Unified Communications] The Forum for Business IP Telephony - VoiceCon Conference & Events ...: traditional telecom VARs/SIs are becoming partners of Microsoft or IBM, while IT-focused VARs/Sis are signing up to carry IP Telephony product lines. There is a growing cadre of experts who know how to deliver an effective communications assessment-what are the communications issues and opportunities-before they even begin to work on a network assessment or a bill of materials.

[VoiceCon Enews] Monday - The Forum for Business IP Telephony - VoiceCon Conference ...: The Communications Process Manager talks SIP to the communications infrastructure (via a gateway if necessary), and talks Web Services to the applications. Jim Hickey, director of communications enablement solutions at Avaya, calls the business-communications linkage “the last unconverged space,”

[VoiceCon Unified Communications] The Forum for Business IP Telephony - VoiceCon Conference & Events ...: Electricity adoption and usage exploded far beyond street lighting once standards emerged (120 VAC, 60 cycles-per-second, standard plug configurations), an infrastructure was in place and inventors created new devices. Emerging standards and the developing ecosystem will enable a similar shift in how communications will enable new ways of working.

[VoIP & Telecom Blog] Mitel Offers a New Perspective on Mobility | VoIP & Telecom Blog: Therefore, the extraction of the Mitel Communications Director into a software capability than can be placed on a generic server and used as a gateway between the PBX and the endpoints is going to be quite valuable to both business customers and Mitel as it will help it get its foot in the door where it has not been and may not be able to deploy its own telephony solutions. The software not only provides the flexibility of adding endpoints but it also overlays advanced IP features on top of a legacy switch and dumb endpoints (e.g.

[Dennis Hartmann's blog] UC Deployment Models: Centralized Call Processing | NetworkWorld ...: Routing phone calls over an IP WAN allows PSTN resources to be centralized at the headquarters sites so the company does not have to manage and maintain gateway resources at each site. Companies choosing to centrally locate all PSTN resources should consider purchasing at least one analog FXO PSTN gateway resource at each site for 911 emergency call routing (911 in the United States).

[Docstoc feed for: Technology] Internet Telephony Magazine April 2008: 10 INTERNET TELEPHONY® April 2008 Subscribe FREE online at www.itmag.com Inside Networking By: Tony Rybczynski UC Where You're Going Just when most enterprises have started to deploy IP telephony systems, unified communications (UC) has ....

[Network World on Convergence] Microsoft Unified Communications | NetworkWorld.com Community: So as much as I'm posting this message from Hong Kong here, I will be speaking at a Microsoft Unified Communications event in San Francisco in just under 48-hours from now. The focus of the event is to talk about Microsoft's Unified Communications strategy which includes their new Office Communications Server 2007 product that includes VoIP, Instant Messaging, and Document Sharing, and when linked with Exchange 2007, an organization can add in email as well as voicemail.

[Broadband Developments - Unified Communications, Virtualization, Security, and Web 2.0] Broadband Developments - Unified Communications, Virtualization ...: Steve Guthrie has spent the past decade in the networking and telephony markets as an active participant in the emergence of LANs, WANs and IP technologies and most recently with unified communications such as IP voice, video, presence and messaging. As the director of product marketing for CA’s Network and Voice Management Solution, which includes the CA eHealth Network Performance Manager, CA SPECTRUM Network Fault Manager, and CA eHealth for Voice Systems Manager offerings, Guthrie is responsible for understanding how enterprises, public-sector agencies, telcos and managed service providers use network and voice management solutions and for communicating these experiences and industry best practices to help other organizations optimize their converged network investments and achieve high end-user satisfaction.

[blog maverick] The Stimulus Plan Update « blog maverick: As is usually the case with any blog post, the vast majority of people don’t actually read the post before they write a response. So the vast majority were dismissed because they did not quality under the required terms.   Of those that did meet the requirements, I gave priority to those that were already operating.  My feeling is that if a business is profitable , or close to it,  they are more likely to know how to use the capital to their advantage than a startup would be.

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