The Campus View of Unified Communications and SIP, Discussion with Professor Henning Schulzrinne Podcast Part 2 - Unified Communications (UC) Strategies

The Campus View of Unified Communications and SIP, Discussion with Professor Henning Schulzrinne Podcast Part 2

By Jay Brandstadter May 20, 2009 1 Comments
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The discussion continues with Professor Schulzrinne of Columbia on the status and direction of SIP including what’s happening in IP telephony and in the standards process. Also, how network addressing, including the familiar phone number, is impacted by SIP as well as the implications of the movement to IPv6. Additionally, the interesting notion of emergency communications as a new opportunity for UC is suggested by Prof. Schulzrinne.

 


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Art Rosenberg 5/23/2009 5:10:29 PM

Excellent interview! The discussion about emergency services highlighted the powerful role that multi-modal UC applications and mobility can play in more efficient, "contextual" contacts between people and (automated) operational processes. As, Schulzrinne correctly observed, people don't always have to know where a person is, what kind of communication device they are using and its "address." Even immediate "availability" (presence status), is not always critical if the requested contact can be affected within a desired time frame. (What I have called "ASAP" or "as soon as possible" communications). The shift away from real-time voice conversations to text exchanges will continue to increase, especially, when efficient text messaging, coupled with UC-based IP telephony will allow easy escalation to voice when really needed. Messaging will become the efficient starting point for phone calls, rather than inefficient failed call attempts being the source of voicemail messages that may be convenient for the callers, are very inefficient for the recipients in many ways. That is why UC needs to treat contact "initiator" needs differently than those of "recipients/responders." It gets even more interesting when contact initiators are automated processes that need to make contact and interact with a specific person (CEBP).

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