Although Cisco has a very strong position in the UC market, its strengths are mainly in UC of the past (on-premises deployments and telephony focused).
The acquisition of Broadsoft will help Cisco to better compete in the next generation cloud UC and team collaboration.
Overall a strong move of Cisco to help it compete with its rivals such as Microsoft and Slack.
What’s Cooking at Amazon for UCaaS and WebRTC?
Amazon is working on a WebRTC based UC service, Yet another UC service? An API platform for developers? Here is the Amazon WebRTC and UCaaS menu.
What threats do these new services by the largest public cloud provider impose and are there any opportunities?
OTTs Combining WebRTC with SD-WAN – a New Headache for Operators
SD-WAN strengthens the position of OTT hosted UC providers vs. the incumbent operators as it makes the operators’ advantage of owning the network less valuable. SD-WAN reduced the operational cost associated with providing hosted UC in high quality as it removes the need for MPLS. Combined with WebRTC, adding real-time communications as a feature to existing SaaS applications has never been easier.
The Drift from Closed Services to PaaS Continues
Unify announced the availability of APIs for their Circuit collaboration platform opening it for the general public of developers. This is not the first time we see closed WebRTC based collaboration platforms in the cloud open up for developers. What drives companies to make this kind of shift and does it pay off? UC vendors need to reinvent themselves, abandon the term UC
WebRTC Based UC for Service Providers – An Interview with Elena Carstoiu from 4PSA
The announcement of 4PSA back in April caught my attention because of 2 things: 1) A small vendor competing with the large ones in the crowded space of UC for service providers where many other small vendors failed. I was interested to learn about their special twist. 2) The mix of interesting ingredients: WebRTC, Big Data, search and analytics. I just had to know more.
What to look for at Enterprise Connect 2015
I will soon arrive at Orlando for Enterprise Connect. What should we expect from this event?
The conference tracks are a good indication for what to expect and more importantly a good reflection of market trends.