Unified Communications

MessageBird CEO Robert Vis

Digital Platforms & Services

MessageBird is worth $3 billion. Who knew?

Digital Platforms & Services

Worldwide Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) market delivers strong growth in Q2: IDC

5G

What’s up with… DT, Kerv, KPN

Digital Platforms & Services

£30M merger creates Kerv, a next-generation cloud-centric managed services company

Source: Lenovo

Digital Platforms & Services

The agile digital workspace v. the less than agile home worker

Unified Communications

Verizon and Airtel bring secure enterprise-grade BlueJeans video conferencing to India

Picture by Juan Alberto Garcia Rivera (https://www.flickr.com/photos/99815049@N07/)

Sustainability

What’s up with… Telstra, Swisscom, Small Cell Forum

Cloud

SAP Pre-Announces Strong Second Quarter Results Amid COVID-19 Crisis

Sustainability

What’s up with… Telefónica, Jio Platforms, Vonage

Picture courtesy of Ciena

Orchestration

What’s up with… Ciena, Bharti Airtel, Amazon, PCCW Global

Work from home/remote desktop

O2 weighs in on the flexible future of work and employee reluctance to give up home working

© Flickr/cc-licence/Kristina Alexanderson

Policy & Regulation

US starts to wonder "Is Google too big for its cowboy boots?'

Network Services

AT&T and Cisco Make Cloud Voice Capabilities More Accessible

Google Meet and Zoom meetings will likely become emblematic reminders of 2020. Source: Google

Coronavirus

Coronavirus: How is the DSP scorecard measuring up?

via Flickr © Tony Webster (CC BY 2.0)

Cloud

What’s up with… AWS, RJio, Amdocs

IDC

Worldwide unified communications & collaboration market revenue grew 17.7% to $38.8 billion in 2019, according to IDC

Cloud

Zoom Selects Oracle as a Cloud Infrastructure Provider for Its Core Online Meeting Service

Cloud

NEC and Intermedia announce strategic global partnership to deliver cloud communications

Coronavirus

Ribbon Offers IBM Clients Free Unified Communication as a Service and Collaboration Rooms on IBM Public Cloud

Smart Cities

Asia/Pacific to account for 1/3 of global spending on Smart Citiy Initiatives

Unified Communications

Ribbon launches [email protected], facilitating remote work for enterprises and contact centers

Devices

Lenovo expands its ThinkSmart devices portfolio into the Smart Office

Unified Communications

Ribbon and Amazon partner to deliver real-time, automated call analytics and recording

Cloud

UCRight Leverages Ribbon’s Session Border Controller to Launch Microsoft Teams Direct Routing Offering in the Microsoft Azure Cloud