Monitoring Videoconferencing Endpoints (1)
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I was talking with Joe Frost of Psytechnics, about the quality-monitoring company's future directions, and Joe said that they're focusing on monitoring of video endpoints, and that they're not seeing much reason to get into the business of QOS monitoring for Unified Communications endpoints.
The Future of the Desktop. Kinda. (1)
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Nova Spivack from Twine wrote an interesting post over at Read/WriteWeb about the future of the desktop which I'd like to comment on. It really ties in nicely with what I've been thinking about recently around user interfaces, especially since any hardware innovations will necessarily involve an ACTUAL operating system. I agree 100% with Nova when he says that everything is moving to the cloud. SmugMug lets me store my high-res photos in my own ...
Virtela Connects Telepresence (1)
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I’m still working through the issue of how to connect multiple WAN providers to get the best global connectivity for Telepresence. I described the problem in this post, and then last week discussed one solution in this post. A few weeks ago I had the privilege of spending some quality technical time with Jason Redisch, Principal Architect for Virtela Communications, and he described their solutions for this challenge.
IP-PBXs Aren't UC; Is that a Problem? (1)
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Last week, Jim Burton wrote a piece entitled, "UC: It's Not About Buying a New IP-PBX." I agree with Jim, which is usually the smart thing to do, but at least to me--Jim may disagree--his mantra doesn't mean that you shouldn't buy a new IP-PBX. It's just that the IP-PBX is not synonymous with Unified Communications.
How much data does fring consume? (1)
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Ever wonder how much data fring consumes when making a VoIP call or even when idle? Personally, I really like fring which I like to call "the Swiss army knife of mobile VoIP and IM", since it works with Skype, SIP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, and AIM.Well, I found the answer to this question on fring's blog which was posted today.When idle, fring also consumes an additional 10kb per hour of connectivity ...
IPV Gateways Connects Telepresence (1)
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Connecting telepresence across the globe may require the services of more than one WAN service provider. I discussed this in detail in last week’s post, and talked about the problems that this presents. Today I want to take a look at one solution to this multi-network-with-QoS conundrum, and see how one company, IPV Gateways, solves it for their enterprise customers.
UC: Unifying What, Unifying How? (1)
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There’s a lot of undefined and multiply-defined things in our industry, so picking on unified communications for lack of definitional rigor might be considered unfair. On the other hand, everyone seems to be waiting for UC to “take off” and it’s fair to presume that without some clear idea of what it is, user adoption and measurement of user acceptance would be equally difficult. It would also be hard to know just how we might ...
Twitter’s Business Model - Real Time Alerts and Keywords (5)
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Ok way back when we had the tsunami, then the London bombing, and today earthquake in SoCal. Why does it take a disaster or potential disaster to wake up the masses. Hey people Twitter is real or should I say the twitter’s value proposition is real. MG at Venturebeat has a post nailing the real time nature of Twitter. Big Biz Stone at Twitter opens the curtain to show us the stats (Biz we love ...
Business VoIP stood still? (A response to Ken Camp) (1)
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(With apologies to Ken Camp, who might not want such a grumpy cynic agreeing with him!) Ken Camp is a pioneer in our industry. His name invokes respect and perhaps even envy among his peers, myself included. The guy wrote one of the very first books about the relevance of IP Telephony in the enterprise, “IP Telephony Demystified”. This book was my first resort when fact-checking my own first VoIP book, “Switching to VoIP”, and ...
Will unified communications spell the end of IP Phones? (1)
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Will the day ever come when your average white collar worker won’t have a phone at his (or her) desk? Earlier this week IDC put out a press release entitled “IP Telephony Holds Strong in the Face of Unified Communications (UC) Hype,” highlighting the findings of their 2007 IP Telephony report. IDC says IP-PBX and IP Phone shipments remained strong in 2007, even with the introduction of desktop unified communications solutions last year from Microsoft ...
Sprint Nextel Acquired by SK Telecom (1)
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It looks like Sprint will be able to start over as part of a new company thanks to South Korea wireless phone service provider SK Telecom. If you remember I commented on rumors that Google will pick up Sprint a while back and while this didn't turn out to be correct, the beleaguered American wireless company does look like it will be acquired. Tags: acquisition, consumer electronics, fcc, gadget, merger, sprint, wireless Related Entries The ...
The Future of Voicemail (1)
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I was recently asked what I thought about the future of voicemail. I had to give this some thought. Voicemail isn't one of those things I think about often. In all honesty, I try to avoid voicemail. I regard voicemail as a nuisance. In fact, I haven't even set up my voicemail box at Cisco yet, and I've been working there almost a year. But why does it have to be this way? Surely there's ...
Microsoft’s Unified Communications products can’t run on their own… yet (1)
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Microsoft released the first version of Office Communications Server in 2007. A good start for inter-organizational collaboration, OCS omits capability to include outside collaborators. Scott Lowe would be thrilled to see OCS replace his Nortel conferencing bridge as his Nortel PBX will be vanishing soon from campus. In the meantime, the service will be replaced with a third party conferencing provider. ——————————————————————————————————————- For the past number of months, I’ve undergone a crash course in telephony. ...
Unified Communications Market Growing - Why is Everyone Confused? Calm Before the Storm (1)
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The recent reports all are showing that the UC market is growing. We are finally approaching the decade long promise of convergence. The future might just be upon us. The question for me is ” if the market is so strong why is everyone confused”? According to Infonetics Research, a communications market research firm, the UC market, which includes unified messaging and communicator software, jumped 20 percent sequentially in 2007, following a 19 percent increase ...
Perspective from the Web 2.0 crowd on Microsoft’s hosting announcements (1)
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It’s always interesting to listen to what Techcrunch and it’s readers say about Microsoft’s moves in certain markets and yesterday at the Worldwide Partner Conference there was lots to talk about. Microsoft unveiled it’s hosted offering for Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communication Server under the brand “Microsoft Online” which will come in starting at $3 per month per user. You can get the full announcement here: Press Release- Microsoft Unveils Pricing and Partner Model for ...
Video Interview Microsoft’s Eric Swift - Microsoft’s Unified Communications Story (1)
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Who Should Capture Telecommuting's Benefits? (1)
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Random blog day continues: Here's a post from Microsoft blogger Moz, about the recent survey that found many workers would take a pay cut in return for being allowed to telecommute. Moz makes the not-unreasonable point that telecommuters should get paid more, not less, since they save the company money. Which raises the larger question: Just who is telecommuting supposed to benefit?
