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The increasing acceptance of unified communications as a repository of corporate communications tools suggests that the next big battle -- the creation of standards enabling interoperability between products from different vendors -- has arrived. 
Unified communications' fortunes are to a great extent dependent on the ability of systems from different vendors to communicate. An impressive array of important companies -- so far minus Cisco, IBM and Avaya -- have formed the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum. In this podcast, UCIF Vice President Mark Gorzynski describes the group's mission and timing and discusses the big players who haven't yet joined.
An exhaustive study by TheInfoPro strongly suggests that UC weathered the recession better than other telecom/IT platforms. Bill Trussell, TIP's managing director of Networking Research, says the perceived value of unified communications platforms enabled it to make progress both in total adoption and in relation to other platforms.
Carl Weinschenk
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