Comments on: Microsoft Unified Communications Launch Event in Vancouver

By: Network Cabling Installation

Network Cabling Installation — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:58:32 +0000

This is a very interesting read, thank you for taking the time to write this post, and include the video!

By: Video Conferencing

Video Conferencing — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:12:55 +0000

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By: video conferencing

video conferencing — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:13:47 +0000

It will be interesting to see how many of these organizations actually take the plunge and adopt Microsoft’s Unified Communications

By: Ian Lee

Ian Lee — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:51:58 +0000

@Wayne, I agree. Although pricing was not available at the launch event, I also think it’s not going to be cheap when the hard roll out happens.

Interesting that from an education institution point of view, you do not think the benefits outweigh the costs. That is telling actually and my sense is, you are not alone.

Tracking and security is top priority at many corporations. It will be interesting to see how many of these organizations actually take the plunge and adopt Microsoft’s Unified Communications.

Thanks for your feedback Wayne.

By: Wayne Brown

Wayne Brown — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:22:35 +0000

I attended the Calgary presentation. Very impressive demo, but rolling it out in my environment (U of Calgary) would be a multi-year project. Also, even though pricing was not available, I can see an enterprise enterprise installation costing $100,000 just for the server side. Client side equipment could run unto millions. I can’t see the benefits being worth the cost in our case.

By: Bytecoders

Bytecoders — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:49:32 +0000

When you say:
I am not sure today’s network infrastructure is stable enough to completely handle mission critical voice calls. Networks go down.

I must agree with you, this technology is not mature yet as can be with other free products like Asterisk PBX and OpenSer.

However, nice review