By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC  |  November 12, 2012

This article originally appeared in the November 2012 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

With the rise and snowballing expansion of mobile networks and applications, communications, connectivity and collaboration seem to be everywhere. Unified communications solutions that intelligently bring together real-time and recorded voice, IM, presence, audio and video conferencing, and other capabilities continue to improve and become available to a broader cross section of the populace. 


Here are some of the best and brightest offering on the UC solutions front. Congratulations to this year’s batch of UC Excellence Award winners!

WINNERS:

ADTRAN, Inc.	NetVanta® Unified Communications Solution Suite with Notification Server
Alteva	Alteva's Hosted VoIP & UC Solution
Altitude Software	Altitude uCI
AudioCodes	AudioCodes Mediant 1000 E-SBC
Denwa Technology Corp.	Denwa Unified Communication Platform
Digium	Switchvox
IceWarp, Inc.	IceWarp (News - Alert) Server Version 11
IPitomy Communications	IPitomy IP PBX with Q manager
NEC Corporation of America	NEC UC Desktop Suite
NEC Corporation of America	UNIVERGE 3C
NEC Corporation of America	UCE Collaboration
Nectar Services Corp.	Nectar Converged Management Platform (CMP)
OPNET Technologies, Inc.	Unified Communications Xpert
Panasonic System Communications Company of North America	Panasonic Communications Assistant Series
PanTerra Networks	WorldSmart
Siemens Enterprise Communications	OpenScape UC Suite v7
Sonus	Sonus SBC 5100 Session Border Controller
Star2Star Communications	Star2Star Business Internet Communications System
Virtual PBX	Virtual PBX Complete™
Windstream Corp.	Windstream (News - Alert) Managed UC Services

Edited by Stefania Viscusi