John Amaya, Alliances Marketing Manager, and Joan Vandermate, Vice President of Marketing, Polycom, discuss the role of video in Unified Communications (UC), user expectations, and how that ties into the company's recent alliance with IBM and their new video-audio conferencing product that integrates into IBM SameTime and Lotus Notes--with VoiceCon co-chair Eric Krapf at VoiceCon San Francisco 2007.

Mathew Frazer, President and CEO, Adomo, discusses Unified Messaging's foundational role in Unified Communications (UC), the impact of recent legal decisions on voicemail, and the best route Adomo has found for migrating your voice system architecture--with VoiceCon co-chair Eric Krapf at VoiceCon San Francisco 2007.

Peter Charland, Senior Product Marketing Manager, EMC Corporation, argues that network management matters even more for VOIP systems than it did before, about ITIL, network infrastructure's impact on telephony and about EMC's new Smarts products--with VoiceCon co-chair Eric Krapf at VoiceCon San Francisco 2007.

Jim McQuaid, Senior Product Manager, NetQOS, explains the realities of network monitoring in the era of VOIP-based systems and what "quality of experience" means, as well as about NetQoS's new product in this arena--with VoiceCon co-chair Eric Krapf at VoiceCon San Francisco 2007.

VoiceCon co-chair Eric Krapf interviews Gary Audin, president, Delphi, Inc., about some of the hidden gotchas in making the switch to VOIP-based systems, how to avoid some, prepare for the rest and use best practices to ensure a successful deployment.

VoiceCon co-chair Eric Krapf interviews Blair Pleasant, prinicpal analyst, COMMfusion, LLC, and co-founder, UCStrategies.com, about the future prospects of Unified Communications (UC)--the component technologies to watch, the market forces that will make it happen, and how to buy in sensibly for your organization.

VoiceCon co-chair Eric Krapf interviews Kishore Seshadri of Mu Security about the special security challenges and requirements raised by moving voice onto the converged network and Mu's network security appliance.

VoiceCon co-chair Eric Krapf interviews Ben Guderian of SpectraLink about the company's recent acquisition by Polycom, new opportunities in the wireless market, unified communications, and experiences at the VoiceCon Spring 2007 conference.

At the conclusion of the VoiceCon Spring 2007 conference, Fred Knight,

VoiceCon Co-Chair, leads a panel discussion on progress in enterprise

IP-telephony migration, the gap between the vendor and the customer view

and the status of emerging technologies. Panelists are:

Marty Parker, Principal, Communication Perspectives;

Gary Audin, President, Delphi, Inc.;

Edwin Mier, CEO, MierConsulting;

John Bartlett, Vice President, NetForecast, Inc.;

Don Van Doren, President, Vanguard Communications; and

Eric Krapf, VoiceCon Co-Chair and Editor of BCR Magazine;

Recorded March 8, 2007, by Audio Recording Services, Inc.

In the opening keynote on the VoiceCon Spring 2007 conference, Avaya President & CEO Louis D'Ambrosio discusses Unified Communications--how Avaya has begun implementing it today, and the implications for the future as it speeds up business processes.