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  • The Long March towards Federated Unified Communications in the Cloud

    While unified communications is an area that has held much promise for the channel, turning that potential in major new business opportunities has been something of a challenge. Not only is there a lot of internal customer politics to navigate as teams of IT and telecommunications people battle for control of unified communications, customers are…

  • Removing the Obstacles to Unified Communications

    Unified communications has always been a space that offered a lot of promise to the channel. But given all the complexities and components involved in actually creating a solution, customers have been moving to embrace unified communications at a modest pace. Hewlett-Packard wants to change the pace of adoption of unified communications with a new…

  • ShoreTel to Expand Cloud UC Offerings With M5 Networks Acquisition

    ShoreTel continues to grow its unified communications capabilities through acquisition, announcing Feb. 1 its intention to buy M5 Networks for $146 million, a move that will enable ShoreTel to offer both cloud-based and on-premise solutions. M5 Networks, a 12-year-old company headquartered in New York City, offers a suite of hosted unified communications (UC) products, including…

  • ShoreTel Acquires Hosted Unified Communications Specialist M5 Networks

    ShoreTel, a provider of IP phone systems with integrated unified communications (UC), announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks, a specialist in UC. Under the terms of the agreement, M5 shareholders will receive approximately $84 million in cash and 9.5 million shares of ShoreTel stock, which equates to a total of…

  • Integra Telecom Announces Collaboration and Messaging Services

    Integra Telecom, a provider of fiber-based, business-grade networking, communications and cloud solutions, announced it is expanding its offering of cloud services for businesses to include collaboration and messaging services. Integra is providing networkwide availability of hosted Microsoft Communication Services, which includes Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft SharePoint, enhanced encryption and other enhanced features.…

  • AT&T Launches Cloud-Based UC Service

    Many enterprises are looking to unified communications (UC) products to increase productivity and simplify communications. However, adoption of UC solutions has long been a challenge, both financially and technologically, for those wanting the most out of UC. AT&T is aiming to simplify the transition to UC with a cloud-based offering that eliminates much of the…

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