Analyst Show Flashes from VoiceCon is one of leading events covering IP telephony, unified communications, and converged networks. Current Analysis was at the the show, and our analysts wrote intelligence reports on announcements made at the show. Highlights from these reports appear below. Clients with a subscription to respective modules can read the full report by clicking the Client Access links. |
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| VoiceCon Orlando 2009 Analyst Show Flashes | |
| ► | Nortel Demonstrates the Evolution of Its Flagship Enterprise Voice Solutions Enterprise Communications - April 3, 2009 - Nortel’s enhancements to its communications portfolio shows its ability to deliver compelling new products despite its troubles. Customers and partners will appreciate this as they determine how to proceed with investing in Nortel technology. |
| ► | IBM Details, but Still Has to Deliver New Unified Communications Solution Enterprise Communications - April 3, 2009 - As Sametime Unified Telephony approaches general availability, IBM has provided some important details on the ecosystem of partners supporting it. The company now needs to prove it can more be more agile in bringing new UC products to market. |
| ► | Cisco Takes TelePresence to the Mid-market; Further Merges UC and Web Conferencing Collaboration and Conferencing - April 3, 2009 - Cisco strengthened its stance as a business-oriented vendor with the introduction of a low-cost TelePresence offering and a number of UC and Web conferencing points of integration aimed at combining real-time and asynchronous collaboration. |
| ► | Avaya Aura Casts Enterprise Communications in a New Lightrise Enterprise Communications - April 1, 2009 - Avaya is re-envisioning the way it delivers communications solutions to large enterprises. A new IMS-like architecture has the potential of reining in trunking costs and making a wider range of applications much easier to deploy to end users. |
| ► | Acme Packet Goes Down-market with the Net-Net 3800 SBC IP Services Infrastructure - April 1, 2009 - Acme Packet is covering the low end of the SBC market by introducing a new platform targeted toward small carriers, enterprise customers, and call centers in the hopes of capturing a major market share in these developing segments. |
| ► | Acme Packet Right-sizes SBC Technology for the Enterprise Enterprise Communications - April 1, 2009 - Acme Packet’s Net-Net 3800 will improve the appeal of its SBC technology for enterprise deployment. Partnerships with PBX vendors & SIP trunk providers will be key to giving Acme a leg up on other solutions delivering much of the functionality. |
| ► | 8x8 Pursues Bigger Quarry with Virtual Office Enterprise Service Business Network Services - U.S. - March 31, 2009 - VoIP specialist 8x8 has added resilience and redundancy to its voice services, letting the provider bid on enterprise-size contracts, but “over the top” providers do not have major opportunities to fill the rigorous needs of enterprise customers. |
| ► | Avaya Expands Role of Contact Centers and Integrates with New Session Manager Contact Center Solutions - March 31, 2009 - Avaya has incorporated new features into Voice Portal and moved some of the call routing capabilities from the ACD. To utilize these new capabilities fully, customers need to enhance their communications infrastructure. |
| ► | ShoreTel Aims for New Opportunities with IP PBX Version 9.0 Enterprise Communications - March 30, 2009 - ShoreTel has included scalability, reliability, and security enhancements, among others, with the newest version of its UC software. |
| ► | AVST Improves UM Flexibility in CallXpress 8 Enterprise Communications - March 30, 2009 - AVST debuted the next generation of its call platform, CallXpress 8, delivering enhanced mobility and networking options. |
