Evaluate

Evaluate

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

• Provider CttC's hosted PBX showcases most advanced features

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• Desktop and small group video conferencing solutions on the rise

  Small group video conferencing solutions are emerging for enterprises looking to extend roundtable video conference meetings to lower-level workers. Continue Reading

• Avoid unnecessary vendor upselling for unified communication solutions

  When purchasing your unified communication solutions, avoid unnecessary UC vendor upselling techniques that could cost you unwanted product features. Continue Reading

• Socialize: Comparing enterprise social software vendors

  Enterprise social software vendors Cisco, Microsoft and Socialtext promise to connect employees better. But which package is best for your business? Continue Reading

• Skype vs. Google Voice: Feature-by-feature showdown

  Two companies are competing to rule the free-VoIP market. This chart offers a feature-by-feature comparative look at Skype vs. Google Voice. Continue Reading

• Secure video conferencing: Auto-answer can be risky

  Enterprises concerned about secure video conferencing need to assess the risk posed by the auto-answer feature, which could open the door for snooping by unwanted visitors.Continue Reading

• Do enterprises want to dump the desk phone for a softphone?

  Plenty of vendors tell UC managers that it's time to replace wired desk phones with softphone applications on laptops or UC apps on mobile devices. But is anyone really doing it?Continue Reading

• Integrating video and unified communications: Video as a core UC tool

  The prevalence of video products at this year's Enterprise Connect shows that integrating video and unified communications has become a key focus of providers in the UC market.Continue Reading

• SIP video conferencing systems: A standardized approach to integration

  Vendors are moving toward SIP video conferencing for system integration. Our Expert Lesson details how SIP-based video conferencing solutions lay key UC architecture groundwork.Continue Reading

• Mobile unified communications client overview: Connecting users

  Mobile unified communications can be a boon to user productivity, but supporting a mix of users and mobile devices can be a nightmare. Learn about apps to link devices to the IP telephony infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Making sense of unified communications and collaboration tools

  Shopping unified communications and collaboration tools is demanding since collaboration tools and packages vary across vendors. This tip provides an overview of UC collaboration tools from top vendors, like Microsoft, IBM and Avaya, and will help ...Continue Reading

• Video conferencing adoption: Tracking trends and deployment strategies

  Video conferencing adoption is increasing as enterprises turn to higher-quality, lower-cost video technology to improve workforce collaboration and reduce reliance on travel.Continue Reading

• Primer: Understanding Avaya's Aura application sequencing

  This primer details how Avaya's Aura™ Session Manager and application sequencing works. Avaya's application sequencing is a core feature for creating and enhancing unified communications and communications-enabled business processes (CEBP).Continue Reading

• Implementing a mobile unified communications (UC) solution

  Mobile unified communications (UC) can provide many major benefits to an organization. In this tip, you will learn about the major strategies available to implement a mobile UC solution and fixed mobile convergence (FMC).Continue Reading

• real-time application (RTA)

  A real-time application (RTA) is an application program that functions within a time frame that the user senses as immediate or current. The latency must be less than a defined value, usually measured in seconds... (Continued)Continue Reading

• How to master VoIP bandwidth fundamentals

  No VoIP deployment is complete without first calculating how much bandwidth voice calls will usurp on your network. This guide explains the fundamentals of VoIP bandwidth.Continue Reading

• VoIP security -- Free IP telephony fuzzing tools

  Protect your organization's VoIP security with free VoIP security tools designed to test IP telephony vulnerability.Continue Reading