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Unified Communications: Opportunities and Challenges in an Emerging Market

Jerry Caron
Research Director, IT Infrastructure

November 30, 2005

Over the past two years, developers of voice networking systems have taken a number of disparate communications products and technologies - call processing, call routing, messaging, conferencing, presence, wireless - and brought them under a single solution umbrella. The result is a new class of Unified Communications solutions that promise not only to connect end users in a highly flexible manner, but to change the nature of business communications.

This telebriefing helps equipment developers and service providers address key questions surrounding Unified Communications solutions:

  • What exactly is Unified Communication?
  • What promises does it hold in transforming business communications?
  • How will Unified Communications solutions co-exist with voice networking systems used by enterprises today?
  • What impact will Unified Communications have on service providers?
  • What impact will it have on the way enterprise end users communicate?
  • What are the challenges to building a new market for Unified Communications and how can they be overcome?


Telebriefing Contents

- Introduction
- Agenda
- Who we are what we do
- Enterprise Telephony Service
- What is Competitive Response?
- Four Levels of Convergence
- Unified Communications Defined
- Unified Communications Defined
- Unified Communications Defined
- Why Unified Communications?
- Why Unified Communications?
- Unified Communications.Solution Components
- The Major Players - Enterprise Solutions
- The Major Players - Carrier Solutions
- The Major Players - Microsoft
- State of the Standards
- State of the Standards: Obstacles
- Systems and Software Vendor Opportunities
- Systems and Software Vendor Challenges
- Service Provider Opportunities
- Solution Provider Challenges
- Service Provider Opportunities
- Service Provider Challenges
- Growing the Market
- Growing the Market
- Growing the Market



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