An increasingly dispersed, global workforce is forcing organizations to evaluate how they communicate and share content with critical contacts. More than ever, companies are looking for unified communications solutions that put people at the center of communications, unlock the potential of IP telephony and deliver a truly unified communications experience that spans networks, devices, and systems, and seamlessly integrates with business applications and processes. This session will provide insight into the state of unified messaging in the large enterprise space.
Presented by:
Glenn Russell Director, Business Services CableLabs
As the service parity barrier to purchase is being broken down — QoS of VoIP is approaching the service levels of existing voice — more and more customers are evaluating hosted VoIP systems. Several factors are making hosted VoIP systems increasingly attractive to CXO’s, among them: Positive total cost of ownership figures; a proliferation of hosted VoIP options; and the fact that this course would enable rapid, agile adaptation of new technologies. In this presentation, the speakers will discuss why a growing number of enterprises are choosing hosted VoIP services as a way to cut costs or upgrade antiquated customer-premise equipment (CPE).
Presented by:
Mark Ricca Partner IntelliCom Analytics
Mark Girardi Sr. Financial Architect Lucent Technologies
Network Management for Large Scale Converged Services Networks (LE-04)
Tuesday - 10/10/06, 3:15-4:00pm
Effective network management of converged networks is essential to maintaining profitability and QoS, while decreasing day-to-day operational costs. Large enterprises and service providers struggle with how to manage effectively their networks without increasing network overhead or complexity.
As higher demand for converged services, such as VoIP and IPTV, are placed on enterprises and service providers, the need to manage effectively the network to allow for these services to be delivered becomes more apparent. Service providers and large enterprises alike are finding that managing the increased complexities of converged networks, such as maintaining both throughput and QoS, to be a costly and complex proposition itself.
Within the next few years converged network services will be as much of a business necessity as is email or the Internet. The companies that can effectively manage that traffic and infrastructure, thereby cutting operational cost, increasing profitability and customer satisfaction, will lead their respective industries into the future.
Presented by:
Ross Rehart Senior Solutions Engineer Network Insight
Amid all of the noise of SIP and other standards as well as the hype behind product announcements — there are many, many companies still trying to figure out the massive effort to move to VoIP. This session puts VoIP and all the noise into clear and understandable points that you can use to build your VoIP migration path. From understanding the available approaches (yes there are ways to discern...) to migrating your applications, to articulating your disaster plans and security. Speakers will also discuss alternatives to diving headlong into VoIP — sometimes a step-by-step approach is the best way to migrate to VoIP.
Presented by:
Jose Acosta Vice President, Business Development Covergence
Mike Shelton Chief Technology Consultant UCN
Walter Kenrich Vice President of Product Management Vertical Communications
Barry Marks Partner (Moderator) IntelliCom Analytics
Terry Slattery Founder & CTO Netcordia
Zack Sargent VP or Operations and Engineering NetLogic
