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Internet Telephony: August 28, 2008 eNewsLetter
August 28, 2008

Gartner Positions AT&T in Leaders Quadrant for Web Conferencing

By Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributing Editor

Gartner (News - Alert), Inc. has positioned AT&T in the Leaders Quadrant of its 2008 “Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing.”


Launched in 2007, AT&T (News - Alert) Connect has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner’s annual review of Web conferencing and collaboration services for enterprise businesses. AT&T Connect boasts integrated telephony, the ability to scale for large events, advantages in serving remote and mobile users and flexible licensing. The solution provides an effective foundation for both enterprise-wide collaboration and unified communications initiatives and allows unlimited global collaboration with a fast return on investment.

Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing,” by David Mario Smith and Jeffrey Mann, July 2008, indicated that enterprises should develop their strategy for Web conferencing as a component of their overall collaboration strategy from an infrastructure perspective to maximize integration possibilities with other platforms.

Frank Zvi, vice president, AT&T Unified Communications (News - Alert) expressed his company’s delight to receive this evaluation, which they believe is recognition as a leader in network-based collaboration. Their intensified focus on collaboration is ensuring that customers have access to all critical, multimedia communications technologies in conjunction with optimized network, convergence and unified communications services.

According to AT&T, by implementing AT&T Connect for live collaboration, enterprises benefit from converged public switched telephone network (PSTN) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) audio (PC),integration with AT&T's global IP conferencing,advanced meeting scalability, integrated communications and collaboration, wider breadth of features,high performance and reliability,meeting diverse IT requirements.

Gartner Inc. has also positioned AT&T in the Leaders Quadrant of its "Magic Quadrant for U.S. Wireless Service Providers, 2008" report. Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO, AT&T Mobility said that in their opinion, AT&T’s position in the Leaders Quadrant of the U.S. Wireless Service Providers report published by Gartner is testament to AT&T's leadership in this space, as more than 71.4 million customers across the United States rely on their wireless voice and data services.

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha’s article, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Stefania Viscusi

(source: http://businessvoip.tmcnet.com/topics/benefits/articles/38262-gartner-positions-att-leaders-quadrant-web-conferencing.htm)

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