Infonetics sent me over a summary of their latest report on the unifiedcommunications (UC) market. Infonetics Research reports that the unifiedcommunications market, which includes unified messaging and communicator software, jumped 20% sequentially in 2007, following a 19% increase...
Asterisk integration with Office Communications Server 2007 is a popular topic in the unifiedcommunications community. You wouldn't think integrating an open source Linux-based solution (Asterisk) with Microsoft's proprietary OCS 2007 UC platform would be popular, but it is. In...
According to a new study by analyst firm Infonetics Research, Cisco and Microsoft are locked in a "battle of the titans" for the unifiedcommunications (UC) market, with both vendors currently favored by buyers as Unified Messaging and Communicator...
D2 Technologies today released their mobile handset solution powered by Google Android. D2's mCUE mobile convergence software solution combines a communications user interface with the company’s vPort MP VoIP software platform and is targeted towards OEMs and service providers to...
Today, the Microsoft UnifiedCommunications Group announced a a multi-year strategic alliance with Aspect Software to help deliver unifiedcommunications to contact centers. Aspect Software is considered one of the leading players in the contact center space, so this is...
Voiceroute gave me an exclusive first look at their latest Asterisk-based solution called Druid UnifiedCommunications Server, which today launched their open sourced version at www.voiceroute.org. Druid UCS gives Asterisk fans a new and powerful open source Asterisk-based UnifiedCommunications...
TMC President, Rich Tehrani today excitedly writes about Voice Mobility's UCN Vmerge a product that unites various communication technologies including voice, fax, and email. The kicker is they are leveraging several Google apps to develop their unifiedcommunications platform....
Unifiedcommunications - the convergence of various communications medium - presents ever increasing complexity due to the way all the various pieces communicate with one another. In some instances a single failure could be disastrous for your business continuity. In...
For my last post today on Microsoft OCS 2007 (hope you enjoyed the comprehensive coverage), I wanted to let everyone know that Aculab launched their ApplianX Gateway for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. ApplianX Gateway incorporates the Mediation Server function...
I was just checking out Rich's impressions of the Microsoft UC launch since he was actually there in the audience to gauge the audience's reactions. Rich writes, "Perhaps the most memorable moment about the event so far other than the...
SAP and Microsoft have integrated Duet - a join venture - with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The integration enables users can to take advantage of presence information and “click-to-communicate” features while working with processes and content in Duet. The...
Rich Tehrani is doing a great job live blogging the Microsoft UC launch in San Francisco. This is a huge launch for Microsoft OCS 2007, which features unifiedcommunications,VoIP, presence, video, and more. Go check out his blog regularly today...
Dell is now in the VoIP game! I was talking with Microsoft's Clint Patterson, Director of PR for UnifiedCommunications, this morning and I asked him about Dell, since I noticed they were listed as one of Microsoft's OCS 2007...
Today is the big launch of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007), the core of the Microsoft UnifiedCommunications Strategy. OCS 2007 is a unifiedcommunications server that delivers enterprise instant messaging, audio, video- and web-conferencing, and enhanced voice...
I've been extremely busy since returning from vacation, but wanted to let everyone know that a few days ago Microsoft released their Microsoft UnifiedCommunications Client API (UCCA) SDK, which enables you to build client applications for Office Communications Server...
Today, unifiedcommunications is being touted by many, including Microsoft with their Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) due out later this year and Cisco with their aptly named Cisco UnifiedCommunications. Unifiedcommunications often combines many or all of...
Dialogic today announced the availability of their Dialogic 4000 Media Gateway Series, including the DMG4060 DTI Media Gateway and the DMG4120 DTI Media Gateway. The Dialogic 4000 Media Gateway Series (aka "DMG4000 gateways”) are a set of integrated systems designed...
According to a study by AMI-Partners, small and medium businesses in the United States have been slow to adopt converged/unifiedcommunications. They claim that this trend will change this year and estimate the total SMB U.S. IP communications and managed services...
Dialogic Corporation announced today that it has expanded its support for Microsoft unifiedcommunications solutions. The Dialogic Media Gateways will enable unified messaging in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, I've got a testbed with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange...
Today, Microsoft is announcing several products that are optimized to work with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. As part of today's announcement, Microsoft has launched a unifiedcommunications qualification program – including 15 phones and devices which are on the...
Microsoft's PR rep recently emailed me with the following: Subject: Tom , Didn't Realize You Had 'Gone Hollywood' I just heard a commercial for a new blockbuster movie coming out this spring called "Breaking VoIP Barriers" — Produced by Microsoft...
TMC’s Communications Developer Conference, is just around the corner - May 14-17, 2007, and is well-known as the premier event for developers of IP Communications technologies. The conference was previously known as the VoIP Developer Conference for the first three...
Cisco has acquired WebEx for approximately $3.2 billion, according to the Cisco website. WebEx is one of the most well-known companies in the hosted on-demand collaboration application space. Although WebEx is very well-known (who hasn't used it?), in my opinion...
TMC is sponsoring a very interesting free webinar hosted by Cisco and the Arizona Cardinals. To increase awareness and educate the IT public of how the Cardinals’ University of Phoenix Stadium has deployed Air-blown fiber and Cisco’s UnifiedCommunications system...
If you recall, back in March, I talked about how Cisco was embracing the SIP standard, i.e. "Cisco is fully embracing the SIP standard on their desktop phones. I interviewed Cisco last week and they told me that I was...