TMCnet Managing Editor Rich Steeves interviews Bobby Mohanty, Sr. Director Product Management Unified Communications Applications at Avaya, about recent awards Avaya has received, what is driving UC adoption and challenges that companies face as they migrate to UC.

Tags: UC, Unified Communications

TMCnet Managing Editor Rich Steeves talks to Farzin Shahidi, Founder and CEO of NextPlane about Unified Communications in the cloud.

Tags: UC, Unified Communications, Cloud

TMCnet Managing Editor Rich Steeves interviews Diego Ghione, President of Denwa, about the Argentinean company’s foray into the United States, bringing their UC solutions to the masses.

Tags: UC, Unified Communications

Tropo discusses what’s new with the company, voice and telephony and its participation at ITEXPO Las Vegas.

Tags: Tropo, Hypervoice, telephony, next generation voice, unified communications

David Byrd discusses what’s new with ANPI at ITEXPO Las Vegas.

Tags: ANPI, hosted unified communications, enterprise communications

Jeff Valentine discusses Fonality’s telephony offerings for SMBs and embracing mobility in the workforce.

Tags: Fonality, unified communications, SMB, mobility

Endstream's Erik Levitt tells Erik Linask how Enstream is taking enterprise mobile communications to a new level with a fully portable enterprise desktop client for mobile devices.

Tags: Erik Levitt, Endstream, TMC, Cloud Expo, Erik Linask, cloud computing, enterprise mobility, desktop infrastructure, communications portability, cloud communications, mobile enterprise, unified communications, mobile desktop,

Noah Rafalko and Erik Linask discuss the evolution of communications and the need for call centers to embrace SMS as the most popular form of communication globally and integrate into their customer engagement strategies.

Tags: TSG Global, TMC, Noah Rafalko, Erik Linask, Call Center, Contact Center, SMS, customer engagement, customer satisfaction, unified communications, IM, mobility, smartphone, text message, customer service, TextGen

Ray Pasquale, CEO & Founder of Unified Office explains that as the Bring Your Own Device changes the way we work the strategy for UC should not be about extending the extension, but making your device part of the Unified Office. This requires a managed service approach.

Tags: BYOD, Unified Communications, UC, Managed Service, PBX, Cloud, Ray Pasquale, Extending the Enterprise

Paul Estrella highlights Elastix’s open-source software at ITEXPO Miami

Tags: Elastix, open-source, unified communications

Jeff Uphues discusses CBEYOND’s comprehensive, innovative IT services and communications solutions at ITEXPO Miami.

Tags: CBEYOND, IT services, cloud, unified communications

Amitava Mukherjee, CEO and co-founder of RedShift Networks discusses the company’s unique position in the market with its secure communication solutions.

Tags: RedShift Networks, IP communications, secure unified communications, ITEXPO

Tadiran Telecom’s Lindsay Kintner chats with TMC’s Paula Bernier about unified communications and collaboration.

Tags: Tadiran, UC, collaboration, unified communications

Ingate President Steve Johnson provides an update on the SIP Trunking seminar at ITEXPO, talks Lync, and discusses the company’s software solution.

Tags: Ingate, SIP trunking, E-SBC, VoIP, Lync, SIPconnect, unified communications

CommLogik’s Kevin Fox discusses the evolution of the Unified Communications market and the advantages a multi-vendor distributor has in accommodating the needs of a growing universe of Microsoft Lync users.

Tags: CommLogik, Kevin Fox, ITEXPO, Miami, Erik Linask, unified communications, VoIP, Lync, Microsoft, IP phone

HiperPBX’s Gustavo Scheveloff talks to TMC’s Erik Linask about the Latin American voice market and the advantages of building an ecosystem of partners around an Asterisk-based PBX system.

Tags: HiperPBX, TMC, Erik Linask, Gustavo Scheveloff, ITEXPO, Asterisk, PBX, phone system, VoIP, Unified Communications, channel partner, open source, telephony, Miami, Microsoft, Lync

Interviewee: Frank Stinson, Partner and Senior Analyst, IntelliCom Analytics. (Leads the firm's IntelliCom Market Dashboard (IMD) and IntelliCom Market Performance Dashboard (IMPD) research programs.

Tags: : Unified Communications, UC, Session Boarder Controllers, SBCs, SIP, SIP Trunking, IP Telephony, IP Communications, Collaboration, Business Process Optimization, Frank Stinson, IntelliCom Analytics, Peter Bernstein Senior Editor TMCnet.

TMC’s Rich Steeves speaks with Todd Carothers, EVP, Sales and Marketing and Alon Cohen, EVP & CTO, Phone.com

Tags: Phone.com and CounterPath team up for unified communications solutions UC, VoIP, video conferencing

TMC Web Editor Rich Steeves speaks with representatives from NetSapiens at ITEXPO Austin 2012. NetSapiens strives to accelerate the proliferations of multimedia service providers by providing valuable applications and assistance in deploying these applications.

Tags: SIP Trunking, VoIP, Unified Communications

Jon Arnold of J Arnold & Associates, sits down with TMC editor Paula Bernier at ITEXPO Austin, to discuss unified communications.

Tags: ITEXPO Austin, ShoreTel, UC, unified communications

TMCnet’s Erin Harrison speaks with 8x8’s Huw Rees about the every-increasing role of Unified Communications (UC), the market lifecycle and what needs to be done to accelerate adoption of UC across the enterprise.

Tags: UC, Unified Communications, Hosted VoIP, Virtual Contact Center

Peter Blackmore, CEO of ShoreTel discusses how the industry is Changing

Tags: UC, shoretel, peter Blackmore, unified communications, cloud, mobility

TMC’s Stefanie Mosca speaks with Michael Coffee, CEO and COB for Commetrex regarding the company’s innovative, patent- pending smart FoIP technology the resolves two major issues in the market right now and changing how the enterprise approaches Fax over IP.

Tags: Commetrex, IP fax, FoIP, smart FoIP, unified communications

TMC’s Stefanie Mosca speaks with Sebastien Boire-Lavigne, Vice President of Technology and Services for Sagemcom regarding the company’s advanced SIP/IP fax server solutions and FoIP software for the UC market.

Tags: FoIP, IP fax, Sagemcom, fax server solutions, unified communications

TMC’s Stefanie Mosca speaks with Nancy Maluso, VP & GM of Communication Applications for Sonus Networks regarding its Harmony infrastructure platform and enabling unified communications in the cloud.

Tags: Unified communications, Sonus Networks, cloud-based technology

TMC’s Stefanie Mosca speaks with Nancy Maluso, VP & GM of Communication Applications for Sonus Networks regarding its Harmony infrastructure platform and enabling unified communications in the cloud.

Tags: Unified communications, Sonus Networks, cloud-based technology

TMC’s Stefanie Mosca speaks with Jim Cairns, Vice President of Business Development for MultiTech Systems about the company’s M2M communication solutions and how they are able to penetrate the UC market.

Tags: M2M, unified communications, MultiTech Systems

TMC’s Amanda Ciccatelli speaks with Dave Gilbert, The Big Cheese for SimpleSignal
SimpleSignal discusses its converged voice, video and data over broadband solutions for SMBs.

Tags: PSTN, Service provider, next gen, unified communications

TMC’s Rich Tehrani speaks with Joe Schurman, Founder & CEO, Evangelyze Communications to learn about the company’s CEBP and UC solutions based on Microsoft Lync and soon other platforms.

Tags: Lync,Microsoft,UC,Unified Communications,CEBP

Peter Bernstein talks with Blair Pleasant of COMMfusion LLC about industry trends, and whats driving UC adoption.

Tags: Commfusion, unified communications, uc, collaboration, trends, industry, talk show, Peter Bernstein

Debbie Jo Severin discusses how a new focus on an enhanced overall communications experience will continue 8x8's growth, which has driven it to the top of Frost & Sullivan's Hosted VoIP charts.

Tags: 8x8, contactual, unified communications, hosted VoIP, hosted UC, business phone, phone system, phone service, IP phone, VoIP, hosted phone system, Frost & Sullivan

Naveen Gupta explains the origins of RingCentral and drivers of its growth as a hosted business communications provider.

Tags: RingCentral, unified communications, hosted communications, VoIP provider, VoIP, FoIP, enterprise VoIP, Cloud Communications, hosted VoIP, business phone, phone service, business communications

Artie Chang the President and CEO of Panterra Networks tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about his company's cloud-based unified communications solutions and hints at expanded cloud computing offering which may come later this year.

Tags: cloud computing,private cloud,public cloud,cloud communications,communications as a service,unified communications,uc,cloud uc,uc in the cloud

Kevin Gavin, CMO of ShoreTel Tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about the company's ShoreTel 13 release which incorporates better videoconferencing features, reduced price chat and SIP trunking support on par with TDM.

Tags: sip,sip trunking,shoretel,uc,unified communications,pbx,cloud,cloud communications,cloud computing

Amy Houson, Sr. Director of Marketing at Plantronics tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about the company's line of UC and other headsets.

Tags: plantronics,headset,uc,unified communications,gadget,wireless,consumer electronics

Karl Dahlin the Vice President of Sales at AVer Information tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about his companies high quality video conferencing solutions which are reasonably priced

Tags: video,videoconferencing,mcu,codec,camera,document scanning,uc,unified communications,lync,skype,facetime,vidtel,surveillance,video conferencing,aver

Cable operators have an opportunity to leverage WiFi to further compete with traditional telcos and wireless operators, bringing a unified user experience to users across a variety of devices and communications services, while ubiquitously enabling access to business resources.

Tags: GENBAND, network transformation, unified communications, SIP Trunking, GENiUS IMS, IP infrastructure, PacketCable, cable VoIP, session border controller, call management, media gateway

Cable operators have a need to deliver a cross platform experience and show they are more than just TV. In an IP environment, the ability to manage and delver service across multiple network and device environments will help operators differentiate themselves.

Tags: Metaswitch, converged communications, VoIP, multimedia services, call control, mobile VoIP, session border controller, unified communications, rich communications, PacketCable, content sharing

Extending the concept of unified communications to the multi-device environment and residential subscriber, UXP systems and Columbus Communications take the video anywhere concept to a new level, allowing customers to take not only their content, but their home telephony services wherever they go.

Tags: UXP Systems, Columbus Communications, unified communications, VoIP, video anywhere, single number, messaging, multi-screen enablement, mobile extension

With all the OTT and alternative service providers trying to steal small pieces of business, legacy operators need to be able to integrate next generation voice, video and messaging capabilities, including mobility, into their infrastructures and portfolios.

Tags: IP Gallery, converged communications, value added services, business communications, unified communications, VoIP, messaging, application server, FMC, fixed mobile convergence, service delivery platform

Steve S at Netscout discusses his company's network performance management and service assurance solutions at Interop 2012

Tags: networking, unified service delivery management, service assurance, network testing, network performance management, voip, video, qos, uc, unified communications, network performance management, user experience management

Davide Petramala explains to Rich Tehrani how Esnatech uses cloud to bring UC to companies of all sizes on platforms such as Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and others

Tags: voip, uc, unified communications, google, cloud communications, cloud computing, esnatech, cloud, uc strategy

TMC’s Rich Tehrani speaks with Ryan Herbst, Vice President of Unified Communications.com

Tags: Unified Communications.com, ITEXPO West 2011

Alan Percy discussed the difference between Centrex and Cloud.

Tags: Cloud, Unified Communications, Contact Center, Interactive Intelligence, ITEXPO

Chad Krantz from Broadvox, at Ingate's SIP Trunking Service Provider Summit at ITEXPO East 2011, discusses the SIP/UC opportunity.

Tags: Ingate, Broadvox, SIP Trunking, UC, Unified Communications, ITEXPO

Tags: Junction Networks,pbx,unified communications,uc

After an introduction for me, Dr. Don Brown, a true communications veteran began a presentation which asked where the value was in communications. He explained CEBP and unified communications were terms made up by marketers and he didn’t really like the term buddy list either.

Tags: interactive intelligence,inin,i3,call center,contact center,itexpo,keynote,conference,ip communications,cebp,uc,unified communications,don brown