http://insidecomms.com enterprise communications technologies Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:46:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Each year Gartner produces "Magic Quadrant" reports. The report attempts to classify vendors according to their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. The below table defines the quadrants. The following quadrants are specifically for corporate telephony vendors in the major markets of North America, APAC and EMEA. What I find ... http://insidecomms.com/2007/11/18/corporate-ip-telephony-leaders-according-to-gartner/ Cisco is a great example of an IP Telephony provider that has strongly promoted third parties to build applications for IP Phones. This in part has been achieved through production of Software Development Kits. It has also been achieved by having a large installed base of XML enabled phones. A specific ... http://insidecomms.com/2007/11/14/ip-telephony-phone-based-applications/ For enterprises who have recently deployed WiFi to their laptop fleets the good news is there has been a significant move towards unlimited fixed-price WiFi plans by hotspot operators since I last did this review. As always the devil is in the details; minimum period contracts, roaming agreements, roaming ... http://insidecomms.com/2007/11/13/wifi-hotspots-fixed-price-unlimited-plans-the-trend/ Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) is the first Microsoft product to manage voice, instant messaging, presence and video conferencing functionality. Since the formal launch of OCS less than a month ago there have been several announcements confirming integration or interoperability with established video conferencing and IP telephony platforms. ... http://insidecomms.com/2007/11/11/microsoft-ocs-integrated-or-interoperable/ Today is 'day one' for insidecomms. My name is Richard Tucker and I will be running this site... you can see my other blog over at inbabble.com. insidecomms will be focussed on business communications technologies. Not small business, but big business. We will cover IP Telephony, IP networking, Wireless networks, ... http://insidecomms.com/2007/11/08/modest-start/