Open to all VoiceCon attendees. Sponsored EDGE-ucation focused entirely on enterprise communications and networking systems. Hear directly from the companies below about the major issues and trends in enterprise communications and how their company is responding.
Learn about the exciting enhancements to our real-time communications portfolio, including; the VISUAL impact which can improve your Contact Center Management with the UNIQUE OmniTouch Contact Center Premium, the INNOVATIVE desktop control offered by My Instant Communicator and one of the most SCALABLE and RESILIENT solutions for IP Telephony in the market. Speaker: Aaron Cole - Senior Technologist
Are you thinking about transitioning to the world of Voiceover IP, or providing your company with enhanced communications capabilities from unified messgaing or unified communications, or simply replacing your aging voice mail system? Whatever your communications challenge, discover how thousands of organizations have been relying on CallXpress to transform their communications environment. Speaker: Tom Minifie, VP of Product Management
Gain valuable insight into the operational issues found in running Voice over IP or Unified Communications on your network. Psytechnics provides an overview of Experience Manager, together with a case study that covers the practical challenges you will encounter in maintaining call quality when deploying IP Telephony. Speaker: Benjamin Ellis - VP Marketing
Mitel delivers Unified Communications for the real world! From our newly minted voice/data services, to simple, integrated UC applications that run on industry standard servers, to the industry's leading migration options. For businesses looking to increase productivity, reduce cost and risk, or looking for a competitive jump start, the new Mitel is leading the way. Speaker: Asif Rehman, Director Portfolio Marketing
Join us , as Ericsson demonstrates how your enterprise can leverage wireless infrastructure to improve network availability and rapidly deploy network access. Speaker: Michael Rothey,
The question in the minds of many executives is "How do I integrate communications into my business?? and "What tools are available to help me once I get this up and running?? This presentation will discuss the many services available to organizations, including assessments, applications design, integration, managed services and network security. Speaker: Rod Johnson - Director of Service Solutions, Core and Managed Solutions
QoS has many meanings. For some, it's about an arithmetic Mean Opinion Score. For others, it's the policy for classification and prioritization. A more holistic view might place more emphasis on "service?, where the equation includes MOS and the health of the converged infrastructure that provides the "voice service?. This session will highlight the holistic definition. Speaker: Steve Guthrie
Learn more about Motorola's strategy and roadmap for converged communications on a family of business smartphones. Motorola's TEAM Portfolio will transform enterprise communications with secure concurrent VoWiFi access to: PBX integration, Push-to-Talk, email/calendar/PIM, IM/SMS, Internet/Intranet, and LOB applications across a range of devices and networks. Speaker: Russ Knisterv - Senior Director, Product Marketing; Converged Enterprise Communications
American Power ConversionDeploying VoIP puts an increased demand on a network's power and cooling, "layer 0? infrastructure, from the wiring closet to the data center, so it is vital to ensure that it is fit for purpose at all levels to meet today's business needs. This session will look at these challenges and the various solutions APC offers. Speaker: Alexander Koudriashov
Join this exclusive session to learn how Nortel can help you transform your business with innovative new Unified Communications (UC) technologies and solutions. Simplify your migration to UC with integrated solutions for Microsoft and IBM environments and extend enterprise communications services to mobile cellular and Wi-Fi handheld devices. Spaeker: Tony Rybczynski - Director of Strategic Enterprise Technologies
Learn how the award-winning 3Com® VoIP portfolio? including VCX?, System i IP Telephony, NBX® and the new 3Com Asterisk solutions ? delivers proven reliability, survivability and advanced capabilities that reduce business costs, enhance collaboration and optimize interactions among colleagues, customers and business partners. Speaker: Erik Papir - VP,Solutions Architect
Clearspan delivers a complete suite of communications capabilities in a single open architecture allowing ubiquitous connectivity ? any user, any device, any where ? one number. This provides dramatically enhanced productivity, business continuity and ROI, creating unprecedented competitive advantage. Speaker: Brandon Weilbacher
AT&T Business in a BoxSM, integrates IP voice and data service over a single network connection and device. It's ideal for satellite locations / small offices with limited or no IT support. This NEW service features a managed device with data ports and connectors and offers internet access routing with built-in firewall protection, virtual private network and Wi-Fi data access. Speaker: Aron Talwar - Marketing Director, VoIP Strategy
IP-based voice, video and converged enterprise networks are a marketplace reality. Technology developments make it seamless for you to deploy advanced video services throughout today's enterprise. This product briefing will highlight how TANDBERG's video communication solution can integrate your SIP and H.323 environments, allowing you to maximize your communication strategy. Speaker: Mark Dumas - Director of Sales Engineering and Product Management
Customers will receive an overview of the Cisco Unified Contact Center product line including self-service, contact routing, management and reporting solutions. We'll review Cisco's inclusive strategy including migration programs and best practices to enable the transition from call centers to Unified Contact Centers. Speaker: Chris Thompson, Senior Director, Cisco
Find out how full UC solutions can now be deployed on any telephony or IT environment without complex, expensive proprietary technology stacks ? and untap the potential to drive up to $12,000 per user in personal, team and process productivity! Speaker: Buzz Kleinert
Extreme Networks introduces its latest edge switch family and the automation framework to ease the deployment, operation and optimization of networks. These innovative offerings enhance the network lifecycle and promote more accurate, secure and efficient converged networks required for voice traffic. This new set of Enterprise solutions is designed to greatly reduce network ownership costs. Speaker: Gregory Heath, Director, Solutions Marketing
Unified Communications bridge the gap between telephony and computing to deliver real-time messaging, voice, and conferencing to the desktop environment. In this session, Microsoft will discuss how its products and technologies, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, can be leveraged to streamline communications, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. Speaker: Drew Baldacci
Learn how you can leverage Verizon's new enhancements to SIP trunking offer and share local trunking resources across the enterprise to reduce overall expense of supporting multiple local offices. Speaker: Karen Gergelyi, VoIP Product Marketing Manager
Foundry Networks' enterprise-class Layer 2/Layer 3 edge switches provide flexible, cost-effective, high-performance solutions for converged applications with adjustable changing business needs or can easily grow as next-generation services are introduced and enabled. Speaker: Franchesca Walker, Marketing Director Enterprise Solutions
ShoreTel's solution is a completely integrated Pure IP unified communications system that scales seamlessly from one to tens of thousands of users, integrating voice, data and messaging. Independent of device or location, ShoreTel's distributed software architecture eliminates the traditional costs, complexity and reliability issues typically associated with other solutions. Speaker: Megan O'Hara, Area Manager, Northern California
Understand how the latest UC technology from Avaya improves customer service, lowers costs and increases business agility enabling your enterprise to thrive during times of economic uncertainty. Find out what NEW and enhanced products are available to optimize worker effectiveness in your environment. Speaker: Diane Shariff, Director, Unified Communications Solutions
For organizations that rely on IP for application and data connectivity, moving to VoIP can offer many benefits. Attend Interactive Intelligence's session to learn how your organization can save in ways you may not have considered. Understand the value of the applications through the use of IP telephony. Develop a strong ROI model by integrating telephony into your IP network. Speaker: Tim Passios - Director, Solutions Marketing
The industry is moving from traditional PBX telephony to VoIP. What better solution than headsets that take the pain away from the decision making process by offering both VoIP and Telephony solution in one product. With EHS solutions that enhance functionality and the only wireless headsets to carry the Microsoft "Optimized" logo, we provide even more value to the customer. Speaker: Chris Briglin - Vice President, Business & Strategic Alliance Development
Multiple platforms? Multiple telephony systems? Users who need a simple way to communicate and collaborate? The IBM approach to unified communications is all about flexibility and choice. Learn more about how you can leverage your existing IT and telephony investments to drive greater business value for your organization. Speaker: Akiba Saeedi, Program Director, Unified Communications and Collaboration Products, IBM
As companies migrate to IP Telephony, they soon discover the need for a 911 technology that supports centralized IP-PBX deployments, phone mobility, and off-site employees. 911 Enable will discuss innovative and secure solutions that meet local and state legislation, while enhancing the safety of the entire workforce. Speaker: Lev Deich, Director
Workers are away from their desks more than ever before. At this session, Nokia will discuss how you can leverage your existing business infrastructure to enable your mobile workforce to work securely and in an efficient and productive manner. Speaker: Aaron Williams, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Customers will receive an overview of the Cisco Unified Communications product line including branch office and campus solutions. We'll review Cisco's inclusive strategy including migrations programs and best practices to enable the transition from IP Telephony to Unified Communications. Speaker: Chris Thompson, Senior Director, Cisco
Leading companies are looking to FMC solutions to hone employee's productivity and contain costs. Sprint's FMC solution, Sprint Wireless Integration, delivers cost efficiency & productivity by integrating Sprint handsets into your existing PBX environment. This session focuses on the TCO of FMC, examining various FMC implementation options and their financial trade-offs. Speaker: Brian Gregory - VoIP & FMC Product Marketing Portfolio Manager
Learn how customers are unifying fixed and mobile voice communications with the BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) and using BlackBerry smartphones as mobile extensions of office desk phones which provide single number reachability, consolidated voicemail, and more in a single integrated phone client. Speaker: Ian McDonald - Product Manager, BlackBerry Mobile Voice System
Avaya makes the roll out of new branches and stores, teleworking programs and mobile workforce solutions easier and more cost effective. Come and learn how your business can start to tap the benefits of a more flexible communication system and deliver tangible benefits to the bottom line. Speaker: Steve Hardy, Director, UC Solutions Management
Integrating all forms of communication ? telephony, e-mail, web conferencing, and instant messaging (IM) - helps deliver a richer communications environment that enables cost savings and increases productivity. But successfully integrating these technologies is a challenge for most organizations. This presentation describes the best practice approaches and key considerations that are critical to a successful deployment. Speaker: Mitchell Hershkowitz - Converged Communications Practice Manager
Last year we saw the fall of many VoIP service providers. To succeed, you must have a sustainable business model and credentials to back it up. As SMBs are looking for ways to reduce their costs, hosted PBX has emerged as a viable contender. Our mission at Packet8 is to remain the VoIP leaders with our services and patented technologies. Speaker: Huw Rees, VP Sales & Marketing
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