Recent Articles
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Businesses Primed for Broader Use of Unified Communications
Deployment of unified communications solutions is poised for growth as organizations build on a foundation of voice and data applications to include more video, collaboration and social communications tools, according to research from CompTIA, a non-profit association for the information technology industry. Nearly half (49 percent) of the organizations surveyed for the CompTIA study, "Unified…
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Unified Communication Spend to Outpace IT Spend
Spending on unified communications is poised for big growth in the next year, according to a new survey of IT solution providers by CompTIA. UC spending is expected to begin outpacing other IT spending, with 49 percent of 600 respondents to CompTIA online surveys saying their UC technology expenditures will grow relatively faster than their…
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Public Cloud Unified Communications Adoption Slow: Survey
Among organizations not currently using a public-cloud-based unified communications service, only 10 percent plan to deploy such a service within the next year, according to the findings of a new survey. Respondents to the survey cited concerns over loss of customization, uptime and security. However, among those organizations that cannot or would not deploy public…
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FuzeBox Launches Fuze Telepresence Solution for Interoperability, Mobility
Interoperability between room-based telepresence systems continues to be a focus of such top-tier vendors as Cisco Systems and Polycom. Now a smaller company, FuzeBox, is introducing a product aimed, not only at ensuring interoperability between such systems, but also extending such telepresence conferences to other endpoints, including mobile devices like tablets. FuzeBox s Fuze Telepresence…
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Toshiba Launches IPledge IP Business Telephony Solutions
Toshiba America Information Systems’ telecommunication systems division announced the release of IPedge, an IP business telephone system in a Linux-based single-server solution. The platform accommodates multiple unified communication applications on a single server, including call processing, voicemail and unified messaging, native SIP line and SIP trunk support, mobility, survivability, centralized administration of all sites, and…
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Avaya Plans $1 Billion IPO
Avaya officials have filed the necessary papers for a $1 billion IPO following two days of speculation. The Wall Street Journal had reported June 7 that Avaya, a networking and communications technology vendor, was preparing to go public again, taking advantage of a newly energized IPO market buoyed by the likes of LinkedIn and Groupon.…