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Articles tagged with: Unified Communications and Three
Unified Communications Industry Consolidation - Lessons Learned from Ericsson Acquisition
Opinion piece by Dorota Oviedo, Research Analyst, Unified Communications and
Collaboration Information & Communication Technologies, Frost & Sullivan
The unified communications (UC) industry has seen a strong consolidation
trend, which
Frost & Sullivan also expects to dominate the competitive landscape in the
near future.
Over the last years, Mitel acquired Inter-Tel, Aastra bought Ericsson's PBX
business,
and NEC purchased Sphere. More recently, privately held Avaya won a stalking
horse
auction for Nortel Enterprise Solutions, while Cisco announced that it will
follow its
previous acquisitions of WebEx, Jabber, and Postpath with that of Tandberg.
Further
industry announcements are anticipated, and are likely to include
non-traditional
telephony players.
more
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Distinctions in Unified Communications and Collaboration Will Disappear by 2013
Distinctions between the components of unified communications and collaboration (UCC) will no longer exist by 2013, according to Gartner. Analysts said that more than 50 per cent of the vendors in this space will fail to meet all the communications needs of collaborative workers. more
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Telenor to Offer Unified Communications Service
After running trials within its own head office for the past few years, Norway's Telenor says that it is now ready to launch a commercial Unified Communications (UC) service. A total of 30,000 Telenor employees currently use Unified Communications services. more
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