AT&T Launches WebRTC Support with API at CES

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	AT&T Launches WebRTC Support with API at CES At AT&T's annual Developer Summit held in parallel with the 2015 International CES tradeshow, the company announced the launch of a commercial WebRTC API. The announcement marks AT&T as the first U.S. carrier to offer commercial support for WebRTC. Read More   WHITE PAPER: PC Connection | EMC 8 Questions to Ask While Considering VDI Storage Solutions Does it offer the best user experience? How flexible is the deployment model? Will it support future requirements? Does it reduce other costs? See how you can ensure success with VDI. Learn More In this Issue Why SDN all-stars are heading to Brocade Predictions for Unified Communications in 2015, Part 2 Predictions for Unified Communications in 2015, Part 1 WHITE PAPER: IBM Quintillion Case Study Hedge fund administration company Quintillion doubles its asset and investor portfolio while keeping staff levels almost flat, by working with Insight 2 Value to deploy an efficient content management solution, based on IBM Case Manager. Read Now Why SDN all-stars are heading to Brocade Why is it that a who's who of SDN developers is landing at Brocade? Over the past two years, the company has lured a handful of industry All-Stars to work on software enabling its networking portfolio, including Fibre Channel storage-area network switches, and Ethernet switches and routers. The most recent hire is Michael Bushong, who jumped from start-up Plexxi to Brocade late last year to run product management.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Agari Understanding DMARC for Securing Email Channels Learn more about how DMARC is combined with existing authentication technologies to create secure email channels, and provide receivers with clear directives on how to safely dispose of unauthorized email - all at Internet scale. Learn more! Predictions for Unified Communications in 2015, Part 2 Welcome to 2015, and to part two of our annual predictions for Unified Communications in the coming year. In part one of our predictions, we talked about continued growth for IP Telephony and UC endpoints, softphones, VoLTE, and progress on replacing the PSTN with VoIP. Today, we'll cover video, WebRTC's likely advances and roadblocks, some roadblocks Skype for Business could face, the saga of net neutrality, and the issue of voice over Wi-Fi as a substitute for legacy carrier voice services.Late last year, President Obama proposed that the FCC regulate broadband services under Title II service of the 1934 Telecommunications Act. While Obama has made his wishes known, it is the FCC that must decide whether or not to classify Internet services under Title II. If the FCC does decide to reclassify, then the decision to head back to the U.S. Supreme Court for a ruling on the legitimacy of the reclassification. We are not optimistic that the U.S. Congress will be able to come up with a legislative solution.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Kinvey 2014 State of Enterprise Mobility Survey We surveyed 100 CIOs and 100 mobile leaders, asking them to explain their goals with mobile and identify the pain points they've been facing when building mobile apps. The results may surprise you - particularly the average time and cost of app development for these enterprises. Learn More Predictions for Unified Communications in 2015, Part 1 As has been our custom for over a decade, it's time for our annual predictions on what will happen in the coming year for Unified Communications (UC). We'll start with what is a clear 2014 trend that will continue in 2015: the growing adoption of cloud-based UC.See also: All of Network World's look ahead to 2015 Most cloud providers have reported double-digit growth this year of their IP Telephony (IPT) and UC portfolios, while premise-based systems growth remains in the high single digits year-over-year. We attribute this to both to the adoption of stand-alone cloud services, plus the adoption of cloud-based UC as a hybrid solution that also includes premise-based components. We expect to see continued UC endpoint growth as organizations move beyond simple IPT, especially in hybrid solutions that integrate cloud-based UC with private IPT systems.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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