The Seamless Enterprise

The following blog is by guest blogger, Lisa Pierce. Pierce is president of Strategic Networks Group, an independent analyst firm specializing in emerging business-class network services.

Catalyst

In reading August 12th’s UC Communications News article on mobility and UC, I was struck by how some architectures are better suited to certain types of calling patterns (vs. others).  The article begins by discussing a business whose FMC functionality depends on employees to update their presence status and preferred connectivity profile on an ongoing basis. The article then goes on to provide several examples of recent improvements in FMC solutions like the Blackberry MVS and Agito’s Roam Anywhere UC client to use GPS triangulation to improve automating location-based rules. (more…)

Here at Seamless Enterprise, we’ve written a lot about SIP Trunking over the past year or so (such as SIP Trunking as the Foundation of UC, Second Generation SIP Trunking,  and the Sprint UC Story: Planning the Move), but maybe it’s time to take a step back, for the sake of readers who may not be as knowledgeable about the topic as they might like.

This is meant as more of a basic training, in the form of a few short questions and answers that we hope will provide a foundation for understanding some of the more advanced discussions we will be having in the next several weeks prior to the Sprint webinar entitled UC Without Borders: The Union of SIP Trunking & Mobility on August 10, 2010. (more…)