unified communications

Clearly Cisco is committed to developing innovative cloud collaboration solutions. This is a hot space. Cloud collaboration delivers many benefits in the way IT organizations deliver services to their users. It provides new opportunities to change the way work gets done, and speeds-up innovation. We…

This is part six in a seven-part series on how IT managers and communications service providers (CSPs) can work together to simplify their migration of premises-based communications to the cloud (read the first post in the series). This particular post is focused on types of access services, the typ…

This is part five of a seven-part series on how IT managers and communications service providers (CSPs) can work together to simplify their migration of premises-based communications to the cloud. This blog post follows “Planning Your Cloud Communications Migration: Navigating IT Priorities and LAN/…

This is the fourth blog in a seven-part series on migrating business communications services (e.g., Business VoIP and Unified Communications) to the cloud. In our last post, “Simplify Your Migration – Private and Public Cloud Solutions,” we reviewed why IT planners and communications service provide…

This is the third in a seven-part series on migrating business communications services (e.g., Business VoIP and Unified Communications) to the cloud. In our second blog,“Take the risk out of cloud calling: cut-over & migration planning,” we reviewed why IT planners and communications service pro…

A little over a year ago, I went to a Cisco board meeting. I was presenting a proposal to acquire BroadSoft for a sum of approximately USD $1.9B. In the meeting, Cisco board members combed through the detail of my presentation. As you would expect, they asked a lot of questions, as part of our stand…

This is the second in a seven-part blog series on migrating business communications services (e.g., Business VoIP and Unified Communications) to the cloud. The first blog, “Removing the Risk & Mystery from Cloud Migration,” focused on business risks for cloud migration and how communications ser…

This is the first of a seven-part series on migrating your communications to cloud.  The complexity of migrating communications to the cloud is holding up modernization. Despite the apparent “inevitability” and benefits of cloud-based communications, the majority of businesses still operate premise…

We’re excited to announce that Cisco has been recognized as a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Unified Communications. We take great pride in this distinction because it’s based on your feedback. And it’s your feedback that continues to shape our products and services. “The Gartner P…