Fred Donovan
What's in store for enterprise communications in 2013?
If some interpreters of the Mayan calendar are correct, then predictions about 2013 are superfluous. However, assuming the world will not end on Dec. 21, let's take a look at what some experts consulted by FierceEnterpriseCommunications have to say about likely developments in the enterprise communications market next year.
Juniper bests Cisco and Check Point in network security market growth
With increasing attacks on enterprise networks, the market for network security products has grown recently. A primary beneficiary of that growth is Juniper Networks, which saw a healthy 11.1 percent revenue growth in the third quarter.
One-third of enterprises have widely deployed mobile UC, says survey
Around one-third of enterprises surveyed by Webtorials characterized their mobile unified communications deployment as extensive or widespread.
Salesforce.com's Heroku offers app developers chance to become SaaS vendors
Salesforce.com's unit Heroku offers services to app developers that enable them to become software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors themselves, according to a recent report by InformationWeek.
Alcatel-Lucent to use €1.6 billion in new financing to fund restructuring program
Alcatel-Lucent plans to use the €1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) in bank financing it secured last week to fund its €1.25 billion ($1.6 billion) restructuring program as well as the restructuring of unprofitable managed services contracts and exiting of geographic markets.
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Are we entering mobile VoIP's heyday?
A report issued this week by Juniper Research certainly has a breathtaking prediction--1 billion mobile VoIP subscribers by 2017, or one in seven mobile subscribers. The mobile VoIP market is changing and enterprises need to change along with it.
IntelePeer partners with Chinook, LiveOps in the cloud
SIP trunking provider IntelePeer has recently announced partnerships with telecom service provider Chinook Communications and contact center provider LiveOps for its cloud-based products.
Spotlight: 8x8 faces regulatory hurdle in Utah
VoIP provider 8x8 is confronting a regulatory hurdle as it attempts to provide VoIP and unified communications to small and medium-sized businesses in Utah.
Gartner: DRAM sales to spur semiconductor market recovery in 2014
The sluggish dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip segment will rebound in 2014, fueling a turnaround in the overall semiconductor market, according to the latest Gartner forecast.
Cisco and Polycom dominate declining immersive telepresence market, says IDC
Cisco and Polycom are the two dominant vendors in the declining immersive telepresence market, with Huawei, Teleris, Radvision and Vidyo tagged as major players, according to IDC's first MarketScape report on immersive telepresence.
HP flexes its cloud muscle with pay-per-use networking program
Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a pay-per-use networking program that enables enterprises to deploy local area networks (LANs) and other services while only paying for the technology they use. Swisscom is one of the first service providers to team with HP.
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Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said he is pleased with the progress of the company's flagship Lumia 920 smartphone, but admitted that the limited supply of the smartphone is causing frustration within the company's sales force. Despite this issue, Elop told CNET that the company is looking to broaden its distribution channels and launch the smartphone in many more countries.
No market is more successful, and yet also based on standards-essential patents and other patented technologies, than that for these smart devices. You'll find no evidence of stifled innovation or market blocking in smart devices under the Christmas tree this year.
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