The Cost Advantages of Hosted Telephony
[ Source: 8x8, Inc. ]
August 2010-
With the growing number of IP telephony service and equipment options, there has never been a better time for enterprises to find a communications solution that fits their business needs. Top requirements of all businesses today in evaluating new communication solutions include lowering costs, consolidating vendor and provider relationships, refocusing IT staff, and providing flexibility to their employees. For these reasons, more businesses are considering hosted PBX services. With a premises-based solution, all equipment must ...
Business Case for Virtualization: Building an Adaptive Infrastructure
[ Source: VMware/HP ]
March 2010-
The business case is clear: Virtualization can help you save money, increase IT agility, and improve business outcomes. Are you capitalizing on these opportunities?
In today’s competitive global economy, your business needs to be poised to respond faster to market changes, customer demands, and growth opportunities. To do this, you need an agile IT infrastructure that is built to deliver better business outcomes—what we refer to as an Adaptive Infrastructure.
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Four Flavors of Fixed Mobile Convergence
[ Source: VoiceCon Orlando 2009 ]
April 2009-
Fixed mobile convergence is coming, but different implementations are being proposed. Some combine Wi-Fi and cellular and transparently hand off calls between the two environments, while others depend solely on cellular service. Most implementations have employed servers that are under the control of the enterprise, but some cellular carriers are introducing network-based FMC services. In the current economic environment, any investment is subject to close scrutiny, but an FMC deployment has the potential to pay ...
Four Flavors Of Fixed-Mobile Convergence: OpenScape Mobility
[ Source: VoiceCon Orlando 2009 ]
April 2009-
Fixed mobile convergence is coming, but different implementations are being proposed. Some combine Wi-Fi and cellular and transparently hand off calls between the two environments, while others depend solely on cellular service. Most implementations have employed servers that are under the control of the enterprise, but some cellular carriers are introducing network-based FMC services. In the current economic environment, any investment is subject to close scrutiny, but an FMC deployment has the potential to pay ...
Four Flavors of Fixed-Mobile Convergence: Nortel
[ Source: VoiceCon Orlando 2009 ]
April 2009-
Fixed mobile convergence is coming, but different implementations are being proposed. Some combine Wi-Fi and cellular and transparently hand off calls between the two environments, while others depend solely on cellular service. Most implementations have employed servers that are under the control of the enterprise, but some cellular carriers are introducing network-based FMC services. In the current economic environment, any investment is subject to close scrutiny, but an FMC deployment has the potential to pay ...
Four Flavors of Fixed-Mobile Convergence: Integrating Wireless and Wireline Telecommunications
[ Source: VoiceCon Orlando 2009 ]
April 2009-
Fixed mobile convergence is coming, but different implementations are being proposed. Some combine Wi-Fi and cellular and transparently hand-off calls between the two environments, while others depend solely on cellular service. Most implementations have employed servers that are under the control of the enterprise, but some cellular carriers are introducing network-based FMC services. In the current economic environment, any investment is subject to close scrutiny, but an FMC deployment has the potential to pay for ...
Four Flavors Of Fixed-Mobile Convergence: Research In Motion
[ Source: VoiceCon Orlando 2009 ]
April 2009-
Fixed mobile convergence is coming, but different implementations are being proposed. Some combine Wi-Fi and cellular and transparently hand off calls between the two environments, while others depend solely on cellular service. Most implementations have employed servers that are under the control of the enterprise, but some cellular carriers are introducing network-based FMC services. In the current economic environment, any investment is subject to close scrutiny, but an FMC deployment has the potential to pay ...
Hardphones, Softphones, And Next-Gen Systems
[ Source: VoiceCon Orlando 2009 ]
April 2009-
The demise of the desk phone has been predicted for several years now, but there’s little evidence of even much of a decline in desk phone deployments. In the current economic downturn, should there be a reassessment of the 30% to 40% of a new system’ cost that’s devoted to desktop instruments? What’s the case for deploying a desk phone to non-customer-facing employees? In this presentation, Stephen Leaden debates whether budget cuts should finally ...
Upgrading Your Data Nets For Voice and Video
[ Source: VoiceCon Orlando 2009 ]
April 2009-
As you implement voice and/or video on your legacy data LANs and WAN, and as you scale that implementation, the challenge of delivering acceptable quality and sufficient security becomes more complex. These challenges only intensify as you attempt to serve all your users in all your locations and in all of the users’ locations. In this presentation, NetForecast provides a detailed understanding of the technical problems you can encounter, the steps to take to ...
Unified Communications: Results From The Test Lab
[ Source: VoiceCon Orlando 2009 ]
April 2009-
Does Microsoft Office Communications Server Release 2 represent a major step forward for Microsoft in terms of supporting voice functionality that approaches the level we expect from legacy PBXes? Does OCS R2 perform up to enterprise levels of expectations? And how do other vendors’ UC capabilities stack up to OCSes? Rob Smithers, from Miercom, a leading test lab, will let you in on their latest findings, including: Does OCS Release 2 support a critical mass of traditional ...