On the heels of Cisco’s announced acquisition of Tandberg ASA, IBM has announced a new “managed telepresence solution”.
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Recession Spurs Innovation
We’ve been struck by some of the recent announcements surrounding activity in various “Labs” run by the luminaries of Search, Cloud Computing and IP-Telephony.
Speakers at Cisco Live Stress Smartphone-based Collaboration
Without using the specific term “Fixed Mobile Convergence”, executives from Cisco used the Cisco Live (formerly “Networkers!”) conference to describe a pivotal role for smartphones.
Orange Business and Aspect Boost OCS Claims
Both Orange Business and Aspect are taking decidedly Microsoft flavored approaches to enterprise-wide unified communications deployments.
Cisco’s New Unified Service Delivery for Service Providers
In a move designed to make it easier for network operators to support cloud computing, Cisco launched a new Unified Service Delivery package that includes the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), a data center-optimized version of CRS-1 (its flagship Carrier Routing System) and the Cisco Nexus 7000 data switch. The CRS-1 integrates two 10Gb modules and a 40Gb forwarding processor in order to support service providers’ ability to deliver resource and network intensive video and data services directly fropm from their data centers.
RIM Integrates Mobile Voice Server with Cisco UC
Recombinant Telephony fans should take note of a deep integration between RIM’s Mobile Voice Server (MVS) with Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager (UCM) software. The result, which will be generally available in the third quarter of this year, is a enterprise services platform capable of delivering many of the features of the vaunted Google Voice offering as well as call management software from other enterprise infrastructure providers like Alcatel-Lucent’s Rich Communications Manager and Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (OCS2007 R2).