Evaluate

Evaluate

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

• 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

• Video over Wi-Fi: Planning and support considerations for UC managers

  As more UC users go mobile, video over Wi-Fi will present support issues. UC managers must work with network engineers on wireless LAN design, configuration and troubleshooting. 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

• Integrating video conferencing solutions with UC

  Integrating video conferencing with unified communications has become critical for many enterprises. John Bartlett of NetForecast speaks with Michael Brandenburg about the benefits of video integration and the challenges that come with it. Continue Reading

• A closer look at video conferencing solutions, technology and vendors

  Understanding the physical pieces of video conferencing solutions is key to implementation success. Take a closer look at the individual elements of your video conferencing system.Continue Reading

• Making sense of unified communications cloud services

  Unified communications cloud services have the opportunity to fundamentally change how an enterprise delivers unified communications. With broad definitions and plenty of marketing spin, it is difficult to separate the real from the hyped. ...Continue Reading

• Managing use of consumer collaboration tools, mobile devices for work

  Should enterprises let employees use consumer collaboration tools and personal mobile computing devices for work? Ted Schadler of Forrester Research weighs in.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

• Eye on the unified communications market: IBM

  This month we're profiling IBM -- taking a look at the company's business model and how it may fit into your unified communications strategy.Continue Reading

• The role of VoWLAN solutions

  Learn about voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) deployment from specific case study applications. This chapter excerpt details specific instances of VoWLAN deployment success.Continue Reading

• Social media challenges reside with users, not technology

  Strict network policing will not solve productivity problems stemming from excessive social media use, and the tactic could backfire. IT managers should embrace social media in the enterprise and create best practice guidelines for employee usage...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

• VoIP management tools: Calculating ROI

  Before purchasing management tools for VoIP, you may need to calculate the return on investment (ROI) to justify the cost of those tools. In this tip, Gary Audin explains how to calculate ROI and provides specific checklists for calculating the ROI ...Continue Reading

• VoIP traffic encryption tools

  Securing VoIP traffic remains one of the biggest obstacles to its mainstream enterprise use. VoIP traffic tends to be unencrypted, but that doesn't mean that it has to be. In this tip, Brien Posey explores various options for VoIP encryption, ...Continue Reading

• Cisco tools vs. Prognosis

  What network management IP telephony vendors do a good job with Cisco Unified Call Managers? What are the pros and cons of using Integrated Research's Prognosis vs. Cisco's own tools?Continue Reading

• Difference between data communications and IP based solution

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