The one constant in communications technology is change. Nothing ever stays the same. From the time Apple’s (News - Alert) II series of PCs hit the market almost half a century ago, the pace of change in communications technology has been nothing short of remarkable. Just as Apple did for PCs, Motorola (News - Alert) changed the mobile game forever with its amazing StarTac, and while calls have been made over the Internet for almost 40 years, VocalTec thrust VoIP into the mainstream in the mid-1990s, to the point where TDM growth has now slowed to a crawl, and the migration to IP is in full swing at businesses across the globe.
What it amounts to is a massive and ongoing opportunity for communications technology vendors, which have had to constantly find ways to revise and reinvent their products and services to help businesses take advantage of the latest cost-saving and efficiency-enhancing technologies.
For some, it has meant acquisition to drive growth and expansion – the market has witnessed an unprecedented amount of M&A activity during the past five years. For others, it has meant organic growth through product evolution as they seek to develop new products to take advantage of the benefits of IP. And for others, it has meant a combination of both, leveraging acquisition to help drive growth and continued innovation... Read More