No Jitter: Phone VoIP

The Gartner 2010 IT Market Compensation Study paints a tough picture for the job market.

Thanks to the Nortel acquisition, Avaya has a narrow lead over Cisco in the overall worldwide market, the analyst firm reports.

Are the UC vendors the Charles Ponzi of today? It makes a provocative position, but it's more than a little over the top.

APAC seems to have weathered the economic downturn of 2008 and 2009 more successfully than other regions. North America and EMEA were hard hit.

Future call routing trends may make cloud-based control, or hybrid premises-cloud architectures, more appealing.

If ever there was a standard needing attention, it's how to provide a true single number feature. Current implementations can be bandwidth killers or SIP trunk blockers.

Skype Connect allows businesses to use their existing PBX or IP-PBX systems to communicate with the millions of Skype users around the world at affordable rates.

How will Cisco and Avaya keep their tablets from being seen as iPad "knockoffs?" And what model will they opt for--open or tightly controlled?

The man who built HP ProCurve into a billion-dollar business and a strong Cisco alternative currently serves on Mitel's board of directors

He'll remain on the board and stay on while a search committee seeks his replacement. The company also announced financials, which were flat.

Sprint's board of directors might harbor concerns about giving a competitor a leg up in 4G, but partnering might be their only hope to keep WiMAX as a viable option.

Making mobile application development easier for multiple platforms could facilitate mobile UC in the enterprise.

Although sales took a hard hit from the economic downturn, IP desktop phones continue to be the preferred telephony endpoint for the majority of business users.

School was about to open and the mandate was to get everything working before classes resumed.

"When asked [the employees] about their interest in working from home, only 21% said they were not at all interested".

The first push-back against the rumored acquisition.

A Clearwire exec noted that the pre-paid segment now includes young, tech savvy urbanites who value contract independence along with style and functionality for their devices.

Enterprises can’t just gobble up the latest "new thing." Those sticky issues like security, interoperability, scalability and manageability--not to mention ROI--need to be addressed before any new product or service makes it into the mainstream.

Meru's "virtualized wireless" is the equivalent of a network switch, not a hub. It allows the network manger to dedicate bandwidth out to each user.

The business-oriented service, renamed from Skype for SIP, lets enterprises connect their PBXs to the Skype cloud--but not the client.