1. Things to Consider….. Before You Deploy UC
Bud Walder
Enterprise Marketing

2. Things to Consider: Unified Communications
Unified Communications: an All-or-Nothing Proposition?
Unified Communications: tied to VoIP Infrastructure?

3. What’s New? Is it All or Nothing!?!
Unified Communications Elements
Presence
Instant
Messaging
Click to
Communicate
Conference /
Collaboration
Personal
Assistant
Unified
Messaging
Fixed
Mobile
Convergence
Business
Process
Integration

4. Legacy Enterprise Application Infrastructure
Converged Applications
CAS
PBX Emulation
Q.SIG
Many elements of UC have been / can be
Deployed this way!
Analog FXO
ISDN
PBX / PSTN

5. Enterprise Infrastructure Future
Multi-Media Applications
Host Media Processing
SIP
SIP
Best of All Possible Open Standards Worlds?
SIP
SIP
IP-PBX / WAN

6. Enterprise Infrastructure Reality
Multi-Media Applications
Host Media Processing
SIP
SIP
NORTEL SIP
MITEL SIP
SIP
AVAYA SIP
CISCO SIP
CAS
Near Term: More Interop / Interface Challenges
PBX Emulation
Q.SIG
SIP
SIP
Analog FXO
ISDN
Hybrid Network

7. UC is about Apps / Not Infrastructure
Presence
Instant
Messaging
Click to
Communicate
Conference /
Collaboration
Personal
Assistant
Unified
Messaging
Fixed
Mobile
Convergence
Business
Process
Integration
SIP
Media Gateway
ISDN
Q.SIG
SMDI
IP-PBX
Hybrid PBX
TDM PBX

8. Does UC Require VoIP Infrastructure?
LAN
Legacy Phones
London
PBX
Centralized
Unified Messaging
WAN
New York
SIP
Legacy Phones
Los Angeles
PBX
Hong Kong
Legacy Phones
Legacy Phones
PSTN
PBX
PBX
Headquarters
Remote Offices

9. Things to Consider: Unified Communications
Unified Communications: an All-or-Nothing Proposition?
Unified Communications: tied to VoIP Infrastructure?

10. Does UC Require VoIP Infrastructure?
UC Applications