Gartner Magic Quadrant examines communication services vendors
[ Source: IBM ]
January 2011-
Selecting a vendor for telecommunications and IT network services can be complex – and can have an enormous impact on your organization. Communications services are important to your operation, but you also need to manage their cost. As you look for a service vendor, you need a way to evaluate the competitors against each other at a high level. Read this report from Gartner to see how the analyst ranks the 17 leading communications services vendors.
The New Competitive Landscape For Unified Communications
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
According to UniComm’s Van Doren, Unified Communications is “communications integrated to optimize business processes.” Naturally, this means different things to different businesses and the appropriate UC solution will be the one that most effectively addresses the specific processes a given enterprise wishes to optimize. Van Doren presents the two major use cases of UC: Improving user productivity and enhancing business processes. He presents the characteristics of each use case, the total value and ROI, ...
How To Integrate Wired And Wireless LANs
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Today’s enterprise networks are asked to support an increasing variety of clients, while maintaining the same standard of application performance and delivery. HP’s Roger Sands discusses the evolution of the network through today’s third-generation technology, and looks toward the next-generation network model that is being developed. Sands sees the future as one converged network, using both wired and wireless means of accessing it, with improved user productivity, easier means of network management, ...
Qualcomm’s GPSOne Solution
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
As enterprises increasingly go wireless and workers become increasingly mobile, location-based services grow in importance. Underlying all LBS is a critical technology: GPS. Leslie Presutti, director of product management at Qualcomm, discusses the growing LBS market and importance of GPS. She discusses the changes in the market, the must-have feature for today’s users, and how Qualcomm’s gpsOne can help providers fit into that market. With chips, software, tools, application support, and systems, Qualcomm ...
Telepresence Or High-Definition Videoconferencing
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Vendor hype and product placement have given telepresence unprecedented visibility in the boardroom, but the IT team and the blogosphere think HD videoconferencing can provide the same experience at a dramatically lower cost. In this session, we will quiz a panel of vendors on the differences between HD videoconferencing and telepresence. Later, we will attempt to determine when each solution should be considered and why.
Choosing A Videoconferencing Solution
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Traditional videoconferencing vendors, as well as a set of recent market entries, are pushing a wide variety of videoconferencing solutions. These offerings run the gamut from high-end telepresence suites to software solutions running on the PC desktop. Which technologies will provide the right communications solution for your enterprise’s needs? This session will propose a decision tree for sorting through the vendor offerings and hype, while focusing on the right size, right bandwidth, and right ...
Is There A Need For A Next-Gen LAN Switch
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
As recently as a decade ago, the majority of local area networks (LANs) were based on shared media. Today, they are based on switching and are designed for two key parameters: speed and availability. However, there is a growing interest in implementing services, such as security in LAN switches. This session will help IT organizations determine what functionality belongs in each class of LAN switch. To achieve that goal, this session will look at how ...
Video On The Enterprise Network: From Requirements To Solutions
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Videoconferencing places significant demands on the enterprise network, both in terms of how the traffic needs to be treated (priority and quality of service) and in the bandwidth needed to support good video. Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise videoconferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability that will affect its uptake as a business tool. This session with John Bartlett will look at the technical ...
How to Bullet-Proof Your IP Voice Network
[ Source: Tone Software ]
June 2009-
Deploying VoIP, IP telephony, and convergence technologies can only be successful if the resulting voice services are delivered with high quality, availability and reliability. Failure is not an option – and yet, analysts report Voice / IT support teams are only 52% successful in supporting IP voice and unified communications platforms.
With most companies today tightening their budgets, you can’t afford to put your communications services at risk. Whether you’re just starting on convergence, ...
Now more than ever, your field workers must be "ON"
[ Source: Motorola ]
June 2009-
Reap the benefits of a field mobility solution - enterprise-wide - one that empowers technicians, sales teams, inspectors and route sales with "always on" connectivity and real-time visibility. You can't afford not to maximize productivity and ensure customer satisfaction, service and retention levels or profitability can suffer. Discover the benefits of field mobility in this Motorola white paper.