Like many in the networking world, I’m keeping my eye on the emergence of Unified Communications. And like most, I believe UC holds tremendous potential for productivity and cost reduction. But I’m feeling lonely when it comes to my sense that there is an elephant in the UC project planning room and the name of that elephant is packet loss. (more…)
Some of the hard-working folks from IPeak Networks just returned from Interop Las Vegas. They report a smaller crowd than in previous years on both the floor-walking and the vendor side of things. I guess this is to be expected. They also report a big push on the part of the network gear vendors into the booming business of Internet videoconferencing. Here’s a snippet from the Interop Las Vegas notes made by our VP Product Management, Dave Teed:
Hope you can forgive me the attempt at a humor but it seems that absolutely everybody writing on the Internet is predicting that videoconferencing will kill business travel. (Planes take off? Videoconferencing takes off?) I don’t know how serious the damage will be, but it does look like there is something to the story. Business can reduce costs in a big way and reduce the carbon footprint, too, by making more and better use of videoconferencing technologies. (more…)
