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Communications Developer Keynote: Avaya's Lawrence Byrd

Lawrence Byrd, Director of Unified Communications Architecture at Avaya kicked off the keynote schedule of the Communications Developer conference on Tuesday with a presentation entitled Unified Communications in a Web 2.0 World. The gist of the speech was that developers will...

Posted on September 16, 2008 7:55 PM

NEC Visit -- Dallas, TX

While I was down in the Dallas metropolitan area this week, I had the opportunity to meet with a number of companies including Irving-based NEC. My colleagues and I were treated to a wonderful tour of the NEC Executive Briefing Center,...

Posted on August 1, 2008 5:27 PM

Aspect Strikes Bluenote

Aspect continues its steady march to be a major player in unified communications, particularly in the contact center space. (TMC's Rich Tehrani covered the Aspect and UC angle in an earlier post.) Today the company announced the acquisition of Tewksbury, Mass-based...

Posted on July 9, 2008 11:24 AM

Sipera Upgrades Security Appliances

Sipera Systems announced that it is upgrading its security appliances to better service the emerging SIP trunking marketplace. Sipera IPCS security appliances now offer advanced SIP trunking security features and better integrate with SIP trunk provider services. Furthermore, the company...

Posted on June 24, 2008 3:21 PM

Rich's Take: Aspect's Unified Communications Play

Rich writes about Aspect and their move into Unified Communications for the contact center on his blog.   Aspect today announced their all-in-one, IT-ready Aspect Unified IP and PerformanceEdge solutions designed to help power unified communications for the contact center....

Posted on March 10, 2008 10:02 AM

Siemens Launches OpenScape Unified Communications Server

Siemens Communications today announced the next phase in its ongoing transformation into a software-oriented company with the launch of the new unified communications software platform, OpenScape Unified Communications Server.   A key element of Siemens' Open Communications plan is the...

Posted on March 3, 2008 10:55 AM

Siemens HiPath 8000 Gains Market Acceptance

Siemens Communications issued a release today, touting the fact that customer numbers for the Siemens HiPath 8000 Real-Time IP System have jumped over 400 percent in the last year, with success in all market sectors, and in enterprises of all...

Posted on December 17, 2007 3:57 PM

Siemens OpenOffice UC Solution for SMBs

Siemens is introducing its latest unified communications solution, Siemens HiPath OpenOffice ME.   The solution is designed to help small to medium businesses (in this case Siemens defines SMB as the 20–150 employee space) increase productivity and efficiency by enabling...

Posted on October 24, 2007 2:49 PM

More Thoughts on Microsoft's OCS

Frank Stinson of Intellicom Analytics added his voice to the chorus of analysts deciphering what Microsoft’s entry into unified communications means to the marketplace.   Here’s what Frank had to say:   “Microsoft is attempting to paint the current mainstream...

Posted on October 22, 2007 2:53 PM

Lots of Microsoft News

Wow. I almost feel stranded, away from the Microsoft OCS news that my colleagues are covering so admirably.   See Rich’s blog entries on the subject, Tom’s blogs and OCS 2007 product review, and the following articles from Erik, Mae,...

Posted on October 16, 2007 5:29 PM

Microsoft OCS Launch Day

  Well at last it’s finally here. The Quickening!   Ok, Ok.. now I sound like Tom with his Braveheart quotes. For those who recognize it, I was referring to the original Highlander movie…   No. What I’m really getting...

Posted on October 16, 2007 9:44 AM

Broadsoft Connections: Guy Kawasaki and Microsoft’s OCS?

I’m out at the Broadsoft Connections conference in Phoenix, AZ and I’m trying to stay as productive as possible while meeting with senior-level executives at a number of Broadsoft’s partner companies.   The event kicked off with an introductory keynote...

Posted on October 15, 2007 6:48 PM

Nortel Looking Forward to Microsoft OCS Launch

I just got back from Texas and had a great meeting with Nortel execs. We talked about SOA, and the evolution of convergence, and of course we spoke at length about unifed communications (UC). Check out my article here. Also...

Posted on October 13, 2007 10:54 AM

Latest Unified Communications Survey Results

The latest survey results are in.   Over the past few weeks we have been asking readers to share their views on a broad range of topics regarding Unified Communications. In our latest research survey conducted in partnership with IntelliCom...

Posted on August 16, 2007 12:19 PM

Art Rosenberg on UC and the iPhone

Art Rosenberg is taking a Unified Communications and customer service angle in his latest report.   According to Rosenberg:   I have discussed “Consumer UC” in the past as something that will require traditional telephone call centers to get ready...

Posted on June 29, 2007 12:37 PM

Unified Communications from CommuniGate

CommuniGate has announced the general availability of Pronto! — an Adobe Flash- and Flex2-based technology that brings together multiple forms of Internet communications and Rich Media, including e-mail, chat, calendar/scheduling, IM, music, video, and more.   According to the company’s...

Posted on June 5, 2007 7:13 AM

Sangoma Announces Yate Telephony News

According to Wikipedia, YATE  (or Yet Another Telephony Engine) is a free software telephony server that can be used for applications like PBX, Gateway and IVR solutions. The software is written in C++ and will support scripting in various programming languages.Sangoma...

Posted on April 26, 2005 8:12 AM