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3Com offers a safe bridge to UC for SMB market

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3Com offers a safe bridge to UC for SMB market

By Robert Smithers and Theresa Mier, Network World Lab Alliance
In our continuing series of Clear Choice Tests of Unified Communications platforms, we found 3Com's VCX IP Connect 100 and 200 telephony products hit their target: providing small to midsize business with seamless voice and data messaging services. Read full story

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How we tested 3Com's unified communication solution Testing was conducted on the 3Com VCX Unified Communications Solution configured for a main office, a secondary regional office, a remote branch office and a home office. We included full redundancy for server components at the main office and secondary regional office.

Avaya offers wide array of unified communications wares There is a lot to like about Avaya's one-X Unified Communications platform. The company offers a dizzying array of UC products that enterprises can piece together to craft customized systems grounded in the company's long, solid telephony history. That said, integrating all the pieces together takes a lot of effort and may require a great deal of assistance from Avaya and its resellers.

How we tested Avaya's unifed communications gear Testing was conducted on unified communications components configured to provide UC for a network topology consisting of a main office and three branch office locations. The four-site deployment was specified to support up to 2,500 aggregate users with 2,000 of these users equipped with full voice messaging and unified communications capability. We included full redundancy for server components at the main office and three branch office locations.

Most messaging and unified communications deployments remain on-premise While much has changed in the messaging and unified communications markets over the past nine years that I have been writing this newsletter, some things have not changed all that much.

Cisco to broaden unified communications package Cisco next year will unveil a new release of its unified communications software that will let companies more effectively collaborate with each other.

How build a successful Unified Communications and Collaboration plan Verizon Business recently published some suggestions about how build a successful Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) plan, focused on what enterprises need to consider when making the move to unified ...

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