It militates against modern working practices, such as hot-desking and general mobility. The name and the early uses of this new device put all the emphasis on "personal" and created a product that was intended to be self sufficient and operate alone.
Chips that integrate several functions - such as the Manitoba chip that contains a processor, a digital signal processor and flash memory - will become more prevalent. Optical chips pass data at faster rates than silicon chips and use less energy...
Similarly, collaboration solutions can help in carrying out change management programmes, and in integrating people working in international and global enterprises. This is great in terms of improving automation, and the routing of information.
Slow progress of IP has been blamed on problems such as poor voice quality, an inability to scale up beyond more than 100 agent positions as well as limited routing and queuing features. While ease of deployment and network cost savings make for a...
Alcatel, Cisco and Siemens will supply kit for the 'metro nodes', which will handle the routing and signalling functions for the unified 21CN network for voice, data and video traffic. Cisco and Lucent will provide the core nodes - high capacity...
Included in the system are the MVS client itself, MVS connectors (a part of BlackBerry Enterprise Server) and the Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite, which allows secure authentication of PBXs. RIM also noted that routing calls through a corporate PBX...