Nicolas Brunel

The Great Copper switch-off

“The key element is communication,” says Nicolas Brunel Executive Vice President of the Communications Business Division, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and author of a paper entitled "The Future of Telephony". In this podcast, Brunel walks us through his paper and discusses his finding on one of the greatest shifts in the world of communications in 150 years: the Great Copper switch-off. In his paper, Brunel writes, "The move to IP and SIP will be forced, and there will be a whole new world of 5G, 6G and cloud with users multi-tasking on a range of devices, using any media from almost any location. As well as the move to hybrid working, which has accelerated enormously during and since the pandemic, cloud, high-speed internet and 5G mobile broadband will open up new ways of working, driving new business models. The future is a blended intelligent conversation which can change and morph on the move, as the user needs. A combination of AI feeds from global databases, and personal and public IoT devices will provide a whole new world of applications. But the gold standard will be a cloud-based Unified Communications platform that permits desk and mobile numbers to be available on any device, along with instant messaging, telepresence, screen sharing and file sharing with the possibility of advanced workflow automation and notifications for industry-specific applications.” Join us in this podcast as a we take in the sunset of a long standing technology and embrace a new family of technologies, many already here, many more to be refined and developed, that will bring people and organizations together in new ways.

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