Tips & Newsletters on Unified Communications

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To cloud or not to cloud your unified communications applications?
Four steps for managing multiple unified communications vendors
Calculating TCO of hosted unified communications solutions
Wireless voice over IP: What 802.11ac will do for VoIP
SIP trunking services close cost gaps around mobility
Defining an enterprise strategy to reap social media benefits
Taking the complexity out of unified communications solutions
How does desktop video conferencing affect the network?
How are softphones being used in the enterprise and beyond?
Corporate collaboration: The essential ingredient to any UC strategy
Cloud telephony allures businesses with full features, low costs
Advances in integrating UC apps into VDI environments
Adding the UC app into virtual desktop infrastructure
Voice virtualization: Early look, mitigation and network preparation
Mobile device adoption alters UC strategies
The evolution of enterprise telephony: Prepare UC for mobile endpoints
Avoid unnecessary vendor upselling for unified communication solutions
Business considerations for your unified communications solution
Understanding unified communications components
Unified communication cloud service models
Session border control: The good, the bad, the ugly
UC as a Service: When is it right for you?
Can you define unified communications? What puts the 'U' in 'UC'?
Use session management for a successful unified communications deployment
Study reveals unified communications and collaboration market drivers
Viable voice telecom solutions for small, medium and large enterprises
A unified communications cloud evolution
Cloud UC strategies: Hosted unified communication service models diverge
10 questions to ask your potential collaboration vendors
Collaboration services: Decision criteria and sealing the deal
Evaluating business collaboration architecture types and vendors
Business collaboration benefits: Assessing the technology
Three drivers suggest need for flexible UC reference architecture
Video collaboration usage policies should consider user experiences
Compare free UC from Skype and Google Voice to business phone systems
Integrating mobile device management with UC systems and features
Tackling virtual UC and VDI for the distributed enterprise
Integrating cloud-based UC applications for the branch office
Free collaboration tools a la Google spur better enterprise UC apps
The iPad effect: Changing enterprise video-conferencing strategy
Extranet and desktop video requirements drive 2012 telepresence trends
Hosted UC, UCaaS offer five major advantages over on-prem UC
SIP trunking service adoption growth driven by WAN strategy alignment
Communication and collaboration in 2020: Inside UC's faster future
The future of unified communications: Forget 2012, how about 2020?
Top 10 unified communications stories and shakeups of 2011
Top 10 unified communications stories of 2011
The tipping point: Top unified communications issues for 2012
Adding up the real costs of so-called 'free' Microsoft Lync
Video conferencing security: Keeping private meetings private
The power of virtualized video conferencing from Vidyo
Unlocking the benefits of mobile UC with wireless LANs
New UC security threats leave UC platforms vulnerable
Robust WLAN infrastructure key to strategic mobile UC
UC middleware solves UC interoperability challenges
Telepresence systems should offer greater user control
How to engage users and build business social software adoption rates
Taking the social out of enterprise social software
UC market watch: A closer look at key vendors' UC strategies
UC strategies: Top five drivers in the new era of UC
Cisco and Extended Results combine tablets and CEBP for UC success
CEBP and tablets: Actualizing the unified communications dream
Understanding the real meaning of pervasive video
Managing integrated communications, consumerization and security
Standardizing on unified communications standards
Federated identity management key to SaaS office and cloud-based UC
Polycom's deal with HP packs a strategic blow to Cisco
Top 5 trends in enterprise IP telephony
Pulling the plug on desk phones and PBX phone systems
The future of IP telephony still trapped in the PBX era
Consumer apps for business: Just deal with it?
Using the iVPN for branch office video conferencing
Integrating video and unified communications: Video as a core UC tool
UC virtualization: Crossing the chasm
The fine print of UC cloud computing contracts
Leveraging SOA to simplify CEBP creation, enhance UC integration
Unified communications 2011: The top five issues for the UC market
Making sense of unified communications and collaboration tools
Managing video conferencing bandwidth demand
Desktop video conferencing: Deployment challenges
Microsoft Lync: The next big thing in unified communications
The truth about five nines availability in unified communications networks
Integrating video conferencing with unified communications
Unified communications etiquette guide: What to know, what to avoid
Choosing video signaling infrastructure
Video conferencing MCU location is important
Video conferencing quality vs. bandwidth tradeoffs
Unified communications boost IP contact center productivity, utility
Connecting contact centers with SIP trunking
SIP contact centers foster integration
Open source UC solutions: Low-risk service delivery at low cost
Cisco, Microsoft must step up unified communications interoperability
Secure video conferencing: Traversing the firewall
IP telephony QoS: VoIP traffic management and prioritization
Business video conferencing setup: Calculating bandwidth requirements
Cloud computing security issues: Protecting your UC applications
IP telephony QoS: Capacity planning and management
When SIP trunks fail: Disaster recovery for SIP trunking
When SIP trunks fail: ITSP SIP trunking disaster recovery plans
Unified communications: Public vs. private cloud computing