October 2, 2008
President & CTO Joe Fuccillo Discusses SIP-enabled DR for Voice
Sure, your data network and applications are backed-up, and I’m betting that many of you have an entire business continuity plan built around your data infrastructure.
But what about your voice network? Do you have a real plan for voice continuity?
Traditional voice disaster recovery tactics – such as carrier redirect and remote call forwarding – are merely band-aid approaches. This conventional “redirect” is not a strategy – but a crutch that does not have the ability to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster.
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July 23, 2008
Will the price of gas, economic conditions and need to cut costs finally tilt the scale?
Juma’s CTO Says ‘YES’ and Explains Why.
Video conferencing has long been hailed as the next great communications medium. Hollywood has been using video communication in movies and TV shows for decades; portraying a future where plain “voice only” calls are simply non-existent. Over the years, many companies have come and gone whose futures were bet on video conferencing becoming the next big thing.
We watched as companies failed not only in the business IT markets, but in the consumer electronics industry as well. In analyzing these failed market attempts, we recognize the very real barriers to main stream adoption: 1) Complexity to implement; 2) Cost of network bandwidth; 3) End user training and difficulty in operation; and 4) Economic and social environments.
Advances in networking, converged IP based communications, cost of bandwidth, availability of high speed consumer broadband and a combination of social and economic environments have obliterated all barriers to entry, clearing the path for video conferencing to finally make its mainstream debut.Let’s start with the technology side of this equation. (more…)
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