Initial thoughts on the proposed Skype/Verizon partnership
Bloomberg's saying that Verizon Wireless and Skype are planning to announce a partnership on Feb. 16 at Mobile World Congress. What does this actually mean for enterprise telephony, especially for companies trying to cut costs? Let's take a quick look from four perspectives: Verizon Wireless, Skype, AT&T and the enterprise telecom manager:
The ROI of Enterprise Video Collaboration
Recently, I did a quick video on Enterprise Video Collaboration for Avaya that talked about some of the high-level benefits video can provide to the enterprise. From a telecom lifecycle management perspective, one of the interesting things I find about video is that as it is implemented as an enterprise communications tool, it will need the same management tools that we currently associate with phone calls.
