VoiceCon Next week

Next week is the annual VoiceCon event in Orlando, Florida. For those of you with any interest in the enterprise telephony space, this is THE event to attend. Based on the number of vendors who've invited me to meetings it looks like this will be another very strong show. Here are the three themes that I think will be big:

• Wireless and mobility - aside from FMC, their's a lot of interest in the enterprise space around integrating mobile devices such as blackberry's and treos with enterprise telephony systems. Expect a lot of announcements in this area
• Unified Communications - last year this was a separate "conference within a conference", this year I expect UC to be the single biggest theme among all sessions, and a quick look at the program shows a large number of UC-related sessions.
• The hard part - infrastructure & organization. Areas such as network management, security, power, resiliency and QoS, as well as optimizing the IT organization to support VOIP and UC continue to be the real challenge in a successful VOIP implementation, I expect we'll see a lot of enterprise case studies that bring us back to reality

I'm looking forward to this show as much as any I've attended in the past. VoiceCon for me is the single best opportunity to get face time with vendors, enterprises, and service providers that are taking technologies like UC and making them happen. I'll try to blog from the show as time permits, but I'd recommend you follow the VOIP Loop site as well as Eric Krapf's wonderful VoiceCon eNews bulletin.

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