Companies in the news this week are Polycom, McAfee, Damaka, 3CX, TDS, Cisco, Maron Structure Technologies, Enabling Technologies Corp., ShoreTel, Alinean, IBBS, AudioCodes, InnoMedia and Clearcable.
Unified communications vendors and service providers offering UC need to think carefully about bandwidth management, which is providing applications the capacity and prioritization that they need. This week, Avistar was granted a patent on bandwidth management. Site Editor Carl Weinschenk spoke to Stephen Epstein, the company's CMO, about the patent and the broader issues it touches on. (Podcast time: 16:08)
The battle lines remain drawn: It's the network folks against the desktop folks and, to some extent, Cisco against all comers. The stage on which the UC drama is playing out is changing quickly, however, with advanced video platforms, mobile devices and a never-ending stream of new applications. 
Google has a plan. It's so freewheeling and ambitious, however, that few people know precisely what it is. A couple of things are for sure: It is deeply tied to unified communications, and the Chrome OS -- a Webified take on the traditional operating systems -- is at its core. The traditional UC sector needs to pay close attention, since the new operating system is due by the end of the year. 
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. Carl Weinschenk
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