Enterprise & SMB

Building on its string of Cisco-resistant partnerships in the video conferencing sector, Polycom (PLCM) is extending its partnership with Avaya across its full voice portfolio. The companies will announce on March 9 that they plan to co-develop and market unified communications systems that comprise Avaya’s SIP-based Aura platform and Polycom’s Open Collaboration Network architecture. Encompassing products from Polycom’s plug-in Communicator phones ...

Attempting to bridge the archipelago of competing videoconferencing and telepresence systems, BT Conferencing, a unit of BT Group (BT), said it’s launching a managed user interface that automatically links offerings from the three major videoconferencing providers, Cisco Inc. (CSCO), TANDBERG and Polycom (PLCM). Called BT One Source, the product will be offered as part of BT’s overall managed communications package for enterprises. Enterprise ...

Probing the business market for its popular Web-based VoIP application, Google Inc. (GOOG) said it will release a premium version of Google Voice for enterprises in 2010. Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard made the comment in an interview with eWeek over the weekend. Since its release last year, Google Voice, which unifies various devices including home phones, mobile devices and deskphones ...

Joining the march toward ultra-high-speed Ethernet transport services, New York-area operator Optimum Lightpath, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp., said today it is now offering 40-Gpbs optical transport to its customers. Long viewed as the next important step in optical data transport, 40-Gig Ethernet services are now being offered by an increasing number of providers in urban areas around the ...

Joining forces on an integrated communications platform, media phone and videoconferencing vendor Polycom (PLCM) has partnered with VoIP applications provider BroadSoft to provide a hosted unified communications system. Known as V2Connect, the new platform will unify voice and video on BroadSoft’s BroadWorks application platform, using Polycom’s Open Collaboration Network architecture and Polycom hardware.“V2Connect provides one common feature set for voice and ...