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Telepresence trends drive extranet and desktop video
As visual collaboration needs grow, desktop and extranet video deployments create more enterprise bandwidth and performance management concerns than telepresence rooms.
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UCaaS holds benefits over premises-based UC
Hosted unified communications or Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solutions offer five main advantages over on-premises deployments in the new IT reality.
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Aligning SIP trunking adoption with WAN strategies
As SIP trunking adoption increases, more enterprises want to align the technology with their WAN strategies. Learn about the benefits and challenges of that alignment.
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Future of UC: Communication and collaboration in 2020
By 2020, communication and collaboration advances like voice command, quick response codes and cloud adoption will streamline workplace interaction and simplify regular tasks.
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The future of UC: Forget 2012, how about 2020?
The unified communications market will evolve radically by 2020, fueled in part by mobile broadband and cloud services adoption.
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Top 10 UC stories and shakeups of 2011
The top 10 unified communications stories and shakeups of 2011 include the UC innovations and vendor shakeups of the new UC era taking shape.
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Top 10 unified communications stories of 2011
The top 10 unified communications stories of 2011 reveal key drivers to a new UC era.
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The top five unified communications issues for 2012
Will UC hit a tipping point in 2012? There are five unified communications issues driving a transformation in business communications that will begin to reframe UC in 2012.
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Adding up the real costs of 'free' Microsoft Lync
Using Microsoft Lync as a corporate UC system is cheap -- free, even, right? While Lync licenses are free, installing Lync may cost more than you’ve bargained for.
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Video conferencing security: Keeping meetings private
Common approaches to building a formidable video conferencing security architecture include encryption, presence and identity management and acceptable use policies.
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The power of virtualized video conferencing from Vidyo
Vidyo rolls out the industry’s first virtualized video conferencing infrastructure, delivering high-quality, scalable video conferencing to any endpoint.
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Unlocking the benefits of mobile UC with wireless LANs
The wireless LAN makes way for the successful integration of mobile UC applications like presence, mobile video conferencing and VoWLANs.
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New UC security threats leave UC platforms vulnerable
Ensuring UC security has grown harder as UC platforms become more open to direct Internet access. Learn how to better manage SIP trunking security, cloud services and BYOD models.
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Robust WLAN infrastructure key to strategic mobile UC
Having a robust WLAN infrastructure is no longer a convenience, it's a necessity. Modern WLAN deployments are costly, but there's a silver lining enterprises often overlook.
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UC middleware solves UC interoperability challenges
Fully standardized UC is not the only path to seamless UC interoperability. UC middleware provides a less complicated, more realistic path to UC interoperability.
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Telepresence systems should offer greater user control
Telepresence is almost as good as being there, but until telepresence systems offer users greater control over what they see, telepresence will fall short of in-person meetings.
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How to build business social software adoption rates
Despite the benefits of business social software, many employers and workers are dubious. Learn how to fast-track internal social software adoption by educating and engaging users.
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Taking the social out of enterprise social software
Despite the benefits of social software, enterprise social software adoption rates are lagging. To improve adoption rates, take the social out of social business.
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UC market watch: Inside key vendors' UC strategies
Learn how key unified communications (UC) vendors like Avaya, Microsoft and Cisco are adjusting their UC strategies in the hope of remaining UC market leaders amid market shifts.
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UC strategies: Top five drivers in the new era of UC
Learn which five trends are shifting the direction of UC strategies and driving the new era of enterprise unified communications.
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Making virtual UC work for the distributed enterprise
Virtual UC applications are being deployed beyond the data center into the distributed enterprise and should be planned with virtual desktop infrastructure deployment.
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Delivering cloud UC applications to the branch office
As enterprises consider cloud-based UC applications for the branch office, they face integration issues between the cloud- and premises-based UC applications.
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Free collaboration tools spur enterprise UC efforts
Rather than eclipsing enterprise collaboration tools and UC apps, free collaboration tools are prompting commercial vendors to improve security and integration.
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iPad syndrome infiltrates enterprise video strategy
To incorporate the iPad into your enterprise video-conferencing strategy, check the network impact, buy the right tools, educate your users and check the competition.