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BT sees low demand for video among SMEs
News Lindsay also described BT's current infrastructure for unified communications — including VoIP, videoconferencing and IPTV — as "probably good enough for those people that are using it today". One notable example is Cisco, whose high-end...
[September 5, 2007, 13:49]
HP pushes integration with new Blade Switches
News HP ProCurve also announced it had added Power over Ethernet (PoE) capability to its 8200 and 5400 Ethernet switch families, aimed at unified communications and video-surveillance system users looking to reduce costs and power consumption.
[September 17, 2009, 14:57]
Avaya and Nokia release dual-mode SIP client
News The client falls within Avaya's "unified communications" strategy, in that it enables one contact number to be used for both fixed and mobile communications. He also claimed that its ability to retain PBX functionality — such as call transfer...
[October 2, 2007, 17:27]
Nortel launches softly, softly security up-sell
News Nortel's strategy, which it launched under the umbrella term Unified Security Architecture, is a set of planning tools aimed at chief information officers and network planners, together with a commitment from Nortel that its products will include...
[September 24, 2002, 6:27]
Ringing the changes with VoIP
News They get telephony at a lower price with more features and one unified bill. The only other is Time Warner's second-line service, which is called Digital Phone and uses Cisco Systems equipment. Really, it was cable's Cox Communications, which first...
[September 10, 2003, 11:45]
Microsoft urges support for IPv6
News We need a unified wireless architecture," in which a person's computer can automatically switch from one wireless system such as 802.11 to another such as high-speed cell phone service. For example, high-speed switches from companies such as Cisco...
[April 18, 2002, 10:42]
North Wales Police deploys converged comms
News North Wales Police is implementing a unified communications system from Cisco which will link 75 police stations and provide them with IP phones and video-conferencing facilities. The force will use around 1,500 Cisco IP phones that will be able to...
[August 13, 2007, 9:34]
Microsoft launches Office Communications Server
News Whereas Microsoft sees software as the foundation of its unified-communications strategy, Cisco sees the network as the key to making unified communications work. Ultimately, most customers will have a mixture of Cisco and Microsoft products as...
[October 17, 2007, 9:19]
Unified comms fails to unify IP vendors
Blog Cisco and Nortel are apparently partnering with Microsoft on unified comms, yet each wants to succeed in its own right. I've just attended one of the big debates of the IP'07 show: and one of the very biggest themes of the event is unified...
[October 16, 2007, 14:04]
Microsoft, Nortel line up today with Unified Alliance
Blog Microsoft will today launch a partnership with Nortel to develop unified communications. Unified comms, in case you've avoided the buzzword for the last 18 months, means bringing together desktop and PBX functionality to make it easier for users to...
[January 17, 2007, 11:37]
HP, Microsoft team up for unified-comms push
News HP and Microsoft have unveiled a four-year plan to collaborate on unified communications products and services, with an expected investment of up to $180m (£116m) into product development and services provision.
[May 20, 2009, 16:00]
Mitel Unified Communications clients and TeleCollaboration
Blog Mitel has announced desktop and mobile Unified Communications (UC) clients with some excellent features and their own flavour of telepresence which might compete with other HD solutions but wont compete with leading telepresence solutions.
[November 24, 2008, 14:11]
Quotes of the Week,June 23-27
News We want to send out a unified message about Java and Microsoft should not be a member of this Forum. FTP Software's Peter Simkin on Cisco's purchase of the Global Internet Software Group. US Supreme Court's Justice William Kennedy criticising the...
[June 27, 1997, 9:37]
Isle of Man snubs iSoft
News The island has also rolled out a unified IP network, called Connect Mann, across its entire governmental structure, covering 180 locations from the Tynwald (the Manx parliament) to the harbourmasters' huts.
[March 23, 2007, 12:19]
Skype for SIP goes public
News He said the service would become part of these companies' unified communications (UC) platforms, but added that Skype saw itself as a UC company because of its use of presence, voice, instant messaging, video and file transfer within a single client.
[December 2, 2009, 15:16]
Avaya extends zero-percent finance scheme
News In March, the company said its new unified-communications bundle was priced in response to "an expected downturn". Cisco's really killed them there," he added. The communications company Avaya has announced it is to make all of its products...
[July 16, 2008, 15:20]
Enterasys secures enterprise VoIP
News The Enterasys integrated open architecture approach to understand and manage the priority and security of unified communications doesn't lock you into a particular voice, video or data vendor," said Mike Fabiaschi, president and chief executive of...
[August 22, 2007, 11:52]
Linux: The back door is open
News How could any responsible company think about putting an operating system with no unified marketing or support organisation to work in "mission-critical" situations? Cisco Systems and Northern Telecom.
[September 15, 1998, 10:30]
Broadcom acquires Silicon Spice
News The goal is of Silicon Spice technology is to allow carriers to deliver voice and data services simultaneously over a unified data network at higher density. Cisco Systems is a customer and investor in Silicon Spice.
[August 7, 2000, 16:02]
Orange steps into cloud services
News The first, which roughly corresponds with 2010, includes the application store, unified communication suites, and an upgraded VPN infrastructure. Partners in the new cloud push include Cisco, Microsoft, Citrix, EMC, VMware, IBM and HP, Dalibard said.
[December 18, 2009, 13:00]
