Several large carriers have announced live network deployments of SIP, most notably Level 3, Sonera, Telia and WorldCom. Players such as Estara, GoBeam, Telverse and Vonage are offering services including: ad hoc and multimedia conferencing...
But Nick Applegarth, vice president of EMEA sales at voice technology company Envox, reckons UK companies more commonly use unified communications in a customer facing situations rather than in internal deployments "because there is typically a...
Despite a slow start, unified messaging (UM) and unified communications (UC) will grow strongly over the next few years, driven on by organisations moving to IP for their voice and data communications needs.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday it has formed a strategic partnership with Nortel Networks to develop and market unified-communications products. Nortel will be Microsoft's strategic partner as its pushes its unified-communications products.
Enterasys Networks has launched a suite of products to help enterprises secure their voice-over-IP deployments. The Enterasys integrated open architecture approach to understand and manage the priority and security of unified communications doesn't...
But a revival is taking place based on still strong spending on R&D; a well-documented partnership with Microsoft for unified communications (UC); and some notable contract wins, such as at the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK (through...