Enterprise Collaboration Infrastructure: From IP Phones to the Cloud Era
Enterprise Collaboration Infrastructure: From IP Phones to the Cloud Era There is a useful thought experiment for anyone who works in enterprise IT: think back to what it took to connect a conference room in one city to a conference room in another city in 2010. Now compare that to what it takes today. In 2010, you needed a dedicated codec device at each end, a qualified video conferencing engineer to configure the call settings, a provisioned ISDN line or carefully configured IP infrastructure, and significant lead time to test the connection before the meeting. If the codec firmware versions didn’t match, if the firewall ports weren’t exactly right, or if the far-end IT team had done their configuration differently, the call wouldn’t connect. ...