This IDC Link refers to the announcement by Avaya, a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions of its new video collaboration solution for IP Office, which is designed specifically for the small and midsize ente ...

At Alcatel-Lucent's annual Enterprise Analyst Conference in Annapolis, Maryland, on April 8–10, ALU brought together worldwide analysts covering both the Enterprise Communications and the Enterprise Networks Business Units. Michel Emelianof ...

At the Enterprise Connect 2013 Conference in Orlando, Florida, on March 18, Avaya announced the long-awaited addition to its cloud strategy. The Avaya Collaborative Cloud includes solutions specifically designed for cloud service providers ...

The theme of this year's global sales and partner TEAM Polycom 2013 Conference in Vancouver, Canada, the week of February 4 was "It's Our Time." The theme emphasizes Polycom's belief that it is the company's time, along with its ecosystem o ...

Oracle Corp. announced on Monday, February 4, an agreement to acquire Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), the leading global provider of session border control (SBC) technology, for approximately $1.7 billion. Acme Packet's Board of Directors has u ...

This IDC Web conference presents IDC's top 10 predictions that are expected to shape the enterprise and datacenter networking market in 2013. IDC believes the biggest theme in networking for 2013 will be the increasing alignment of the n ...

This IDC Presentation provides a market analysis perspective (MAP) of the global unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market. The presentation is designed to provide clients the opportunity to engage with IDC's communications ...

In response to enormous demand from its customer base, as well as to competitive pressure to a degree, Avaya announced on December 5, 2012, that Avaya Aura 6.2 core applications now support VMware virtualization — in what is called Avaya Au ...

This IDC Flash discusses the key takeaways and perspectives gained from ShoreTel's annual worldwide Champion Partner Conference that was held in Florida from November 5 to November 9 for ShoreTel partners, along with invited industry con ...

This IDC study contains IDC's worldwide unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market forecast for 2012–2016. The segments aggregated for this study represent IDC's estimates on customer usage of UC and collaboration technologie ...

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of vendors participating in the worldwide enterprise videoconferencing market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and ...

This IDC study updates IDC's worldwide unified communications and collaboration research map to provide market definitions and a framework that IDC will use to track, segment, and forecast the worldwide UC&C market. This taxonomy reflect ...

This IDC study contains IDC's worldwide IP PBX and desktop hardware IP phone forecast for 2012–2016. It provides a forecast for the total IP PBX market (pure and hybrid) by IP PBX line shipments and desktop hardware IP phones shipped. ID ...

At Enterprise 2.0 in Boston on June 19, Cisco announced the rebranding of Cisco Quad, which will now be called Cisco WebEx Social. WebEx Social is Cisco’s enterprise collaboration platform that helps virtual teams collaborate more effective ...

This IDC study highlights the worldwide revenue and shipments for enterprise IP PBX lines/seats and IP telephones for 2011. IDC expects several consecutive years of IP PBX market growth as IP telephony remains a key component of many ven ...

This IDC study provides a five-year forecast (2012–2016) for the worldwide enterprise network infrastructure market. Data for 2012–2016 is forecast; data for 2007–2011 is actual. This study includes Ethernet switch, router, WLAN, IP tele ...

In Orlando, Florida, from April 1 to 3, Polycom held its well-attended TEAM Polycom 2012 conference, bringing together Polycom executives and managers, salespeople, channel partners, and customers, as well as a few industry analysts, in ord ...

On March 15, Avaya Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire RADVISION Ltd., an Israeli vendor of videoconferencing and telepresence technologies for approximately US$230 million. The acquisition is expected to close within appro ...

In a Cisco blog from February 15, the company described how it has appealed the European Union's approval of the Microsoft-Skype merger. A European VoIP service provider — Messagenet — also joined Cisco in the appeal. In the blog, while ree ...

On January 24, 2012, Avaya announced a new offering within the company's growing mobile unified communications (UC) portfolio. Avaya Flare Communicator for iPad is a software-based offering that supports key UC functionality such as IM, pre ...

As mobility increases in the enterprise, and video is everywhere, IT needs to evolve the corporate network or risk falling behind the business needs of the enterprise. IDC believes that intelligent networks will offer the reliability, se ...