Unified Communications - Sessions

This session was about the capability to integrate voice, IM, collaboration, and other cool toys into a single application. There were some very interesting demonstrations of Microsoft, IBM, Nortell, Avaya and others systems for creating these unified communication systems. There were very interesting potential future uses for Sametime, or the other companies equivalents. By the end of the session, all of the different products blended into a single mass of features and functions. For the most part, they all were able to incorporate video chat, chat, VOIP, application sharing, place based awareness, and discussion into a single application. I am very excited by these demonstrations and hope we will be able to leverage these features in Sametime 7.5 when it rolls out internally.