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UNIFIED COMMS

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Microsoft rolls out OCS replacement

BT is to be one of Microsoft's partners for its new generation of unifiec comms products
Star offers unified comms to small businesses

ISP Star has launched a Microsoft-based UC service called Worklife
Mitel to offer virtualised voice

Mitel has integrated its telephony products with VMware to offer virtualised voice.
InTechnology claims UK's first hosted unified comms system

InTechnology claims to have delivered the UK's first fully integrated hosted UC package
Avaya releases virtualised unified comms system

Avaya has released Aura, a unified comms product that uses virtualistion for reducing server use
Avaya told to continue UC deal with Microsoft

Avaya should preserve Nortel's partnership with Microsoft on unified comms products if it wins its bid for Nortel Networks' enterprise assets said a senior analyst.
Avaya and IBM team up on unified comms

Avaya and IBM have launched a co-ordinated sales and marketing programme on unified comms and have agreed to conduct technical development together.
Company's unified comms server ready for tight market

Avaya is planning a core server with which customers and independent software vendors can easily build presence, voice and other communications modes into business applications.
Siemens offers unified comms for mobiles

Siemens has launched new software that will allow mobile phones to connect to cellular and Wi-Fi networks, and which will transition calls between the two in order to save money by taking advantage of corporate wireless networks and public hotspots.
Cisco boosts collaboration products

Cisco has released a bunch of products to tap into the growing remote workers market. The company, which earlier this month launched Virtual Office for home workers, is set to release more offerings to tap into the demand for flexible working. The new releases are in three complementary areas: unified comms, Telepresence videoconferencing system and the WebEx collaboration platforrm.

Latest Features

Unified communications arena gets more crowded

The world of unified comms is going to be hotting up right now with two heavyweight contenders squaring up to each other.
Skype wants to do business

The free-VoIP giant recasts itself as "unified communications made simple" - but how much is it willing to compromise in order to go business-friendly?
Tracking the truth of unified communications

We talk IP comms and email vacations with Shoretel MD Mark Swendsen.
How size affects your view of unified comms

Europe's large enterprises and small-medium enterprises see the dilemmas and challenges of unified communications rather differently.
Network management's greatest challenge: virtualisation

Interop survey shows network managers expect the biggest challenges to be managing virtualisation, unified communications and MPLS.
What's the true meaning of unified communications?

Unified communications is more than the simple integration of fixed and mobile communications. It means the inclusion of additional wireless communications - not just basic Wi-Fi - but also, expanding the definition of wireless to include satellite and microwave communication as well.
Unified comms: an industry in evolution

Did this week's Unified Comms show in London show the VoIP vendors looking towards the next big step in telephony's evolution, or merely the next bandwagon to jump on?
IBM pumps its unified comms strategy

IBM's top 5 predictions for unified communications: Desktop computers and phones will disappear.
Notes from IP'07

More of the exhibitors at last week's London networking fest speak.
Are unified communications here at last?

So far, IP communications that follow users across voice, IM, email and other media have benefitted a narrow group. That may be about to change.

How-tos

How to install unified comms system

Case Study: Eurodata unifies its comms

Understanding the value of unified comms

Defining enterprise IM strategies

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Enterprise communications and collaboration in a fast changing world

A business briefing for C-level execs. on how integrating a range of technologies - including unified comms, SOA, virtualisation and cloud computing _ can transform the productivity and profitability of large enterprises.
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Securing unified communications

The deployment of enterprise class unified communications platforms has not eliminated consumer-grade instant messaging from organisations, which means a new security approach is required.
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Underpinning unified communications

Discover the 3 essentials of advanced IP communications in this White Paper:

Open standards
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Setting Realistic Expectations about Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Communications and Messaging

Microsoft's introduction of Exchange 2007, promises a number of Unified Communications (UC) capabilities to improve employee productivity through rich, efficient access to their e-mails, contacts, calendars, faxes, and voice mails. However, a reliable, full-scale implementation of Exchange 2007 UC in enterprises is, in reality, full of pitfalls and requires important decisions with significant impact on future reliability, network topology, and supportability.
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Creating Competitive Advantage Through Converged Communications

IDC White Paper - IDC examines how CIOs can leverage ICT infrastructure to optimise business processes, support new ways of working and foster innovation through Unified Communications to gain competitive advantage.
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