After numerous misfires, the Sprint Nextel Xohm mobile WiMAX service went live in Baltimore on Monday. While success is still a ways off, with the service now available, many of the long festering questions about the technology
Posted by Michael F. Finneran, on September 30, 2008
Cisco released its new software-as-a-service offering for collaboration called WebEx Connect. Cisco’s Alex Hadden-Boyd sits down with Blair Pleasant to describe WebEx Connect, its features and capabilities, and how customers can use these new collaboration tools.
Posted by Blair Pleasant, on September 29, 2008
UC is not just about business users. With new mobile "smart phones," consumers" will be using UC services too. Planning for enteprise implementation of UC capabilities, however, must focus on the needs of both business processes and the different end users involved.
Posted by Art Rosenberg, on September 29, 2008
I just spent two and a half days at the Cisco UC and Collaboration Analyst conference in San Diego, and my brain is overloaded from all the announcements and new releases.
Posted by Blair Pleasant, on September 28, 2008
Cisco has entered into the collaboration game, an unchartered territory for the infrastructure vendor. As they outline their strategy in San Diego, it’s very clear that they’ve done their homework. At Cisco’s UC Summit in San Diego, the message was clear: Cisco is all about collaboration.
Posted by Vanessa Alvarez, on September 26, 2008
Citrix is practicing what it preaches and setting an example for virtualizing enterprise desktops by offering its employees the option to buy their own laptops of choice for both business and personal usage - just like mobile 'smartphones" are being used. This approach will be good for UC usage.
Posted by Art Rosenberg, on September 26, 2008
The dynamics of UC flexibility will make business communications more efficient for end users, but more difficult to guess about network capacity needs. Is that where Nortel's "Hyperconnectivity" comes into play?
Posted by Art Rosenberg, on September 24, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent has faced many challenges this past year. Last week was the beginning of a fresh start for them, backed by a strong story of the Dynamic Enterprise
Posted by Vanessa Alvarez, on September 22, 2008
At its Global Analyst Conference in Orlando this week, Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) discussed its unified communications products and roadmap. While the opening plenary sessions focused on the carrier market rather than the enterprise market,
Posted by Blair Pleasant, on September 22, 2008
At the Alcatel Lucent Global Industry Analyst Conference in Orlando, Tom Burns sat down with Blair Pleasant and Vanessa Alvarez to talk about ALU's vision of the Dynamic Enterprise, the role of web 2.0 enterprise 2.0, and how
Posted by Blair Pleasant, on September 22, 2008