Articles tagged with: Cisco and Unified Communications

Growth of Unified Communications Services to Dwarf Products Growth

Unified communications and collaboration is expected to see significant growth delivered as a hosted service according to a new study released by Wainhouse Research. Heavyweights Microsoft, cisco, and IBM are all investing heavily to create offerings that integrate with their existing unified communications products into a hosted services framework.  more

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Telephony Market to Crimp Unified Communications Market Growth

While Unified Communications (UC) has become a high tech marketing buzzword and the focus of major enterprise vendors including Avaya, cisco, IBM Lotus, Microsoft, and Nortel, a new study released by Wainhouse Research concludes that UC product revenues will actually decrease by over $1 billion over the next two years before the market rebounds.  more

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Unified Communications Market Tops $3 Billion in the Third Quarter

A recently published report from Dell'Oro Group reveals that the Unified Communications market surpassed $3 billion during the third quarter of this year, driven in large part by the market's top two vendors - Avaya and cisco.  more

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Sprint Offers Integration with Cisco Unified Communications Manager

US mobile operator, Sprint has announced the launch of a corporate fixed-mobile platform based on the cisco Unified Communications Manager. Sprint Wireless Integration is delivered using the Sprint IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture, built into Sprint's IP/MPLS network, which not only minimizes equipment required on the customer premises but also allows for intelligent routing and "on-net" calling capabilities nationwide.  more

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Economic issues are set to drive growth in unified communications

A new report by market analyst Datamonitor discusses the key trends in the unified communications market in 2008. It reveals that although uptake of such solutions has been relatively slow, environmental, social and economic factors will help drive growth going forwards. Whilst concerns over green IT, employee productivity and the economy may inhibit investments in some emerging technologies, Datamonitor believes that these issues will make unified communications a compelling business proposition for enterprises.  more

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du and Cisco Expand Strategic Relationship

The UAE based telco, du has revealed its plans to strengthen strategic relations with cisco, by exploring the use of the cisco-enabled Virtual Service Provider (VSP) model. The new model will offer bundled packaged services to meet the voice communications, data services and network security needs of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The agreement was discussed at a meeting between cisco chairman and CEO John Chambers, du chairman, Ahmad Bin Bayat, and Osman Sultan, chief executive officer at du.  more

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Cisco expects UC projects to grow 60% in 2008

US networking equipment vendor cisco expects sales of its unified communications (UC) solutions to rise by more than 60% in 2008 in the Central and Northern South America and Caribbean areas (Cansac), UC business developer for the region, Gerardo Chƒ¡vez, told BNamericas.  more

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IBM Upgrades Internal Communications for India's Idea Cellular

IBM says that it has implimented a unified communications and collaboration solution for India's IDEA Cellular. This is in addition to the 10-year strategic outsourcing contract announced by IDEA and IBM earlier this year.  more

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CMG boosts its wireless data solutions with Cisco purchase

CMG has announced an agreement with cisco Systems to acquire cisco's uOne Unified Communications software platform for the service provider market and the Research & Development team supporting this technology to CMG. Approximately 100 employees in Richmond, Virginia, USA, will become a part of CMG Wireless Data Solutions. The unified communications software platform will continue to be marketed under the uOne brand name, while the technology will also be embedded in CMG's Unified Messaging solution for wireless network operators. CMG Wireless Data Solutions was a cisco uOne partner and had already selected uOne for integration in CMG's Unified Messaging solution. Now with this transaction, CMG will offer uOne to the communications market world wide. The ongoing net R&D investment associated with the uOne products will be subsumed within CMG's total 2001 stated R&D investment of US$85 million." more

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