Unified Communications Technical Theatre

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Wednesday 09 April 2008

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Supercharge your business by unifying infrastructure, simplifying systems and focusing on security

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Rajesh Sinha, Bailey Teswaine

This session describes the business benefits that can be achieved by unifying infrastructure, bringing life and intelligence to buildings through simplifying systems, making sure security is at the forefront of business operations, reducing the carbon footprint and cutting the energy bill and reducing costs and increasing your productivity. The session will also describe proven solutions in these areas by referencing a number of case studies.

 

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11:10 AM - 11:40 AM

Securing Unified Communications - the infrastructure view

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Simon Wilson, Nortel

Unified communications infrastructures must systematically incorporate security features and use well-known security techniques. This session discusses the security that should be foremost in your mind when evaluating or implementing a UC product or solution in your company

 

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11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

How to pro-actively manage your Unified Communications environment

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Martin Anwyll, NetIQ UK Ltd

All the leading vendors recommend that customers actively ensure their networks are ready for unified communications deployments. Additionally, experience shows that post-deployment a unified communications environment should be pro-actively monitored in terms of availability, capacity and call quality to ensure continued success. In this session you will learn how to successfully deploy, monitor and troubleshoot unified communications deployments.

 

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12:30 PM - 13:00 PM

Unified communications – a utopian communications model?

Unified Communications & Messaging Theatre

Bruce Everest, Avaya UK

Unified communications has the potential to create a new breed of knowledge workers, if a clear, organisation-wide implementation strategy and plan are laid out. For the enterprise, UC will deliver a more efficient, anytime, anywhere business environment. This in turn will lead to faster decision-making, better acceptance and use of collaborative tools, work-life balance improvement and an outstanding customer experience. So, is this communications utopia?

 

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13:10 PM - 13:40 PM

The Roadmap to Unified Communications

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Adam Collins, BT Lynx

The presentation is aimed at a business audience and looks at what exactly we mean by Unified Communications, the business needs it fulfils, the hurdles you jump to deliver an enterprise UC solution and how you should overcome them.

 
 

13:50 PM - 14:20 PM

Integrating Unified Communications with legacy systems & applications

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Andrew Penn, Siemens Enterprise Communications

Andrew Penn will discuss and investigate ways in which Unified Communications software products can be integrated with legacy platforms including Siebel and Salesforce.Com. In particular, this session will highlight the business benefits of such integration and what users can expect. It will also confirm how important it is to have an open architecture with open interfaces so that application integration is made simple.

 

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14:30 PM - 15:00 PM

The role of SIP in Unified Communications

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Chris Majer, Interactive Intelligence

With open standards-based SIP, businesses can drive greater cost-efficiencies in the deployment of enterprise communications, and help improve productivity among an increasingly-mobile workforce. This session discusses the evolving role of SIP in unified communications solutions

 

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15:10 PM - 15:40 PM

Maintaining the integrity of collaborative applications on a busy network

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Mark Burton, Ipanema

Guaranteeing the performance of critical applications over the network while preserving the performance of all other applications and controlling telecom costs is a fundamental goal for all organisations. This session demonstrates how implementing and maintaining the integrity of high priority and critical collaboration, conferencing and VoIP applications can be guaranteed and protected during times of high network traffic

 

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15:50 PM - 16:20 PM

The greener shade of Unified Communications

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Jeremy Sneller, NEC Philips

Organisations are increasingly challenged with juggling environmental obligations and forthcoming regulations, with the pressures of running an efficient, cost effective and competitive business. This session will look at the key environmental issues and how a Unified Communications strategy can work in harmony with the green agenda, rather than in conflict.

 

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Thursday 10 April 2008

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

VoIP and IP Telephony: A Carrier’s Perspective

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Richard McCammond, Verizon Business

In this session Richard McCammond will discuss the changing face of telephony as Carriers migrate from traditional PSTN services to the new world of VoIP and IP Telephony. Richard will explore how Carriers are addressing the technology challenges in their core networks, and finish by looking at the opportunity for organisations and consumers to benefit from the integration of voice with other “Collaborative” applications.

 

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11:10 AM - 11:40 AM

Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Natalie Butler, Cisco-WebEx

The Web has evolved from a content distribution vehicle into a platform for collaborative applications. A new generation of on-demand applications are leveraging the reach and scale of the Web to make us better informed, more productive and completely connected. How will the changing software landscape impact the way we work and who will benefit?

 

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11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Integrating the Unified Communications products from Microsoft and Cisco

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Dave Banthorpe, Hewlett-Packard

This session will look at the integration of the Microsoft and Cisco Unified Communications products. We’ll look at the overall architecture and features provided along with a comparison of the various products from each vendor and how they fit into the overall solution.

 

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12:30 PM - 13:00 PM

Flexible Working at HP - A case study

Teleworking and Mobility Theatre

Brian Fenix, Hewlett-Packard, UK

13,000 HP employees worldwide work exclusively from home offices. In 2007 HP's teleworking program saved almost 2.5 million round trip commutes, saving approximately 65 million miles of road travel and almost 28,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. This presentation will look at the implementation of flexible working practices within HP both in the UK and worldwide. It will examine the challenges which were encountered from both a technological and cultural perspective, look at the tools which HP employees use to communicate with each other, and explore the benefits that have accrued to the organisation.

 

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13:10 PM - 13:40 PM

Extending your Unified Communications Strategy into the contact centre

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Mark Deakin, Microsoft Raun Kilgo, Aspect Software

Whether your company is already crafting your UC strategy, deploying UC technologies across your enterprise, or just beginning to investigate the UC phenomenon that seems to be one of the most talked about trends in many years, Microsoft and Aspect have formed an alliance to help meet your needs. By bringing unified communications to the contact centre, companies will be able to deliver better customer service, sales and collections results by being able to seamlessly access subject matter experts across the enterprise. Hear how consumer experiences will dramatically improve when organisations start leveraging Unified Communications.

 

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13:50 PM - 14:20 PM

Planning and implementing Unified Communications

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Mark Swendsen, ShoreTel

Every business starts along the path to unified communications - where speed, reliability and network capacity are of the utmost importance - with a unique set of needs and an existing infrastructure. This session describes how companies should go about planning and implementing unified communications in these circumstances

 

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14:30 PM - 15:00 PM

VoIP and Data Integrity Management: why VoIP services need accurate network data to succeed

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Gil Steiner, Amdocs

Successfully deploying advanced services such as VoIP on today’s complex multi-vendor, multi-technology networks is a challenge for service providers and their enterprise customers, particularly with automated service activation through portals. A key ingredient in efficiently delivering and assuring VoIP services is accurate network data showing exactly which network devices, cards and ports are involved in a given business VoIP service, enabling service activation with low fallout, and ensuring rapid diagnosis and resolution of faults that are often reported as simply "my phone doesn't work".

 

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15:10 PM - 15:40 PM

Unifying Communications through an outsourced on-demand platform

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Simon Bushell, Premiere Global Services

Unified Communications is a term that is frequently used in and around the technology and telecommunications sector. However, it can mean different things to different people. This session discusses what Unified Communications means to organisations with multiple suppliers of business critical communication applications and a dispersed workforce and stakeholder audience. It also focuses on how organisations can simplify the management of their business critical communication processes.

 

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