According to Dell’Oro Group figures released this month, the VoIP marketing is still a two horse race between Cisco and Avaya. The market for IP Phones grew by 10 Percent, which is a promising sign. They have also reported that the Unified Communications market grew in the third quarter of the year. The top two Unified [...]

TechwiseTV is running ran a webinar on UC and collaboration, together with a real-time conversation via Twitter, (under the tag #twtv): “Pushing the Boundaries of Collaboration” I am of the view that effective communication and collaboration tools are the best competitive weapon that any business can have. As the description of the webinar said, “[they] overcome the technology walls [...]

As far as the network is concerned, F5 Networks have become part of the furniture for most hosting providers, and I mean that in a good way. Load balancing across multiple servers has progressed a long way since the early days of Cisco’s Local Director, and Checkpoint’s early load balancing capabilities. F5 have evolved too. A number [...]

Next in the series of Interviews from IP08 is Meru Networks. US-Based Meru sits in the unusual situation of being a company that no-one has heard of, but everyone talks about. I’ll explain why in a bit, but first a little background on this wireless player. Meru has a strong engineering bent and a strategic [...]

I caught up with Russ Kirk of Grey Convergence at IP08 last week to talk about Unified Communications in the enterprise. Grey has made a name for itself over the last few years, with its specialist team of Microsoft OCS gurus. They are one of around 8 certified Microsoft voice partners in the UK (although many of [...]