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By Jim Lundy Cisco held its annual Cisco Live Networking Education Event this week and we were in attendance at the San Diego Convention Center. Cisco had over 17,000 customers and partners in attendance as well as a number of Industry Analysts. Chairman and CEO John Chambers gave a compelling business update on Cisco’s progress over [...]
By Jim Lundy Consumerization has arrived in the realtime video and voice collaboration space (aka real time collaboration or UC&C). Consumers can do things today that are as good or nearly as good as the features offered by the high end Enterprise grade UC&C offerings. Google has had their video based Hangouts for a while now, but [...]
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration, Mobile Issues:: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: On April 18th, Cisco announced it would make Jabber, its UCC client, free for existing Cisco customers. The move [...]
By Jim Lundy Enterprise Connect was held this week in Orlando, Florida and it was all about IP Phones, UC&C, (Unified Communications and Collaboration) and Video. Mobile enablement of all of this was an undercurrent but given that Enterprise Connect used to be called VoiceCon, discussions about Voice still trumped Mobile. SIP, SIP Trunking were there [...]
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration, Social Software Issues: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? How will Social Software technologies evolve? Summary: On November 16th, Cisco announced enhancements to its Collaboration Portfolio, including Video, Social, Mobile and Presence that position it to [...]
