In this HOST: Rob Scott speaks to a panel of experts about the key differences between meeting room strategies. The panel discusses Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams and a Zoom style approach when planning and implementing your move to of the above video conferencing and collaboration solutions. Panel speakers:

Tom Arbuthnot - Modality Systems

Graham Walsh - Crestron

Jonathan George - Adoptt

Hosted by Rob Scott, Publisher, UC Today - Unified Communications, Collaboration & CX Tech News

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In this session, UC Today host Rob Scott discusses the following discussion points with leading Microsoft UC experts Mark Vale, Randy Chapman and Shawn Harry:

• I’ve got SfB, how do I get to Teams?
• Will I lose functionality?
• Is Hybrid a stepping stone or valid long term plan?
• What’s Microsoft’s roadmap look like for PBX feature parity between platforms?

#MicrosoftTeams #Skype4B

Produced by UC Today - Unified Communications, Collaboration & CX Tech News

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In this podcast, Finbarr Begley, Senior Research Analyst at Cavell Group provides an introduction to SD-WAN technology and how it can help Unified Communications service providers differentiate their offerings.

You can connect with Finbarr and the rest of the team at Cavell's annual Cloud Comms Summit or on LinkedIn and Twitter or by visiting:

https://www.cloudcommssummit.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/finbarr-goode-begley-61631941/
https://twitter.com/finbarrbegley 

Hosted by Rob Scott, Publisher at UC Today News - Unified Communications, Collaboration & CX Tech News

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Data security is vital in the modern age of technology and huge investment is leveraged annually trying to secure business systems. SIP protocols are vital for almost all forms of VoIP communication, but how secure is SIP? This podcast explores some of the inherent security vulnerabilities within SIP. SIP differs from web or email protocols because of its complexity, and it is this complexity which creates a wider range of potential security weaknesses. As well as reviewing some of the most common threats to SIP security - and some real world examples of malicious attacks - our expert security guest also gives us his top tips for protecting SIP and securing VoIP networks.

It's been a busy year for Cisco in the worlds of communication and collaboration. This podcast brings you all the latest news on Cisco's platforms covering new meeting features for Webex, this month's Cisco Partner Summit and all of the latest announcements relating to closer integration work with other technology providers. The usual pod team also over Cisco's acquisition of Voicea, which was announced back in September, and some of the new capabilities that this may bring to its platforms. Some new hardware devices have also been unveiled and the pod examine how these will fit in Cisco's portfolio of endpoint devices.

Recorded during SkySwitch Vectors 2019 this podcast discusses the issues and solutions for contacting emergency services. A roundtable podcast discussing E911, Kari's Law and location service issues with members of the emergency services and SkySwitch.

Often the most important facet of any business, customer experience provision, is playing an increasingly vital role in any organisation's success in competitive globalised markets. Providing a unique effective customer experience is crucial to ensure the long term success of any business. Customer loyalty is now achieved by providing customers with exceptional experiences that give them no inclination to leave a business' services. Artificial intelligence and machine learning technology promises to transform and enhance the capability of customer service providers. In this podcast we examine the impact and influence of AI technology on the provision of customer experience. 

UC Trends 2020 is our series of interviews, stories and analysis bringing you insights from the world's biggest technology providers. We want to bring you an understanding of the workplace and technology trends that have been impacting their businesses and also further insight into their future plans. Avaya is one of the world's most recognisable communication providers and it has had particularly busy year with the recent announcement of a partnership with RingCentral. In this episode of Out Loud we hear from some of Avaya's management team about the past year and we ask them to divulge some of their plans for the future.

Resellers and service providers are continually looking for solutions and platforms that can give them the edge in increasingly competitive communication markets. Increasing competition from a new generation of over-the-top vendors and cloud giants has made this more challenging but next generation communications platform providers such as SkySwitch are equipping its partners with the tools to succeed. In this podcast we are joined by SkySwitch who give us all of the details on its proposition to the channel market and fill us in on its upcoming user group conference, Vectors 2019. 

September's edition of the Microsoft monthly podcast begins with some further follow up on last month's big news. The podcast covers some previously uncovered areas of the Skype for Business Online retirement date announcement. The team explore how the news impacts, customers and in particular, those that have purchased 3IP Phones. After reviewing the additional Skype info the pod then moves on to the latest Microsoft Teams news. There are the usual host of updates covering additional PSTN connectivity, further info on the new whiteboard capture feature and another new territory for Team's data residency. Lastly the pod looks ahead the next big Microsoft event that is looming in the calendar.