nojitter's Podcast

No Jitter Blogcast: 10 Guiding Principles of Reducing Network Costs

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:44:00 GMT

No Jitter blogger Sorell Slaymaker offers a presentation explaining some principles to help your enterprise save money in delivering communications to end users.

No Jitter Podcast: AVST-Unimax

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:03:00 GMT

In this No Jitter podcast, recorded just before VoiceCon Orlando 2009 in late March, the CEOs of AVST and Unimax discussed the partnership that the 2 companies subsequently announced at VoiceCon. We also discussed TCO and ROI for unified communications and network management tools.

No Jitter Marketplace Focus: Unimax

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Phil Moen, CEO of Unimax, discusses Unimax's technologies for configuration management, and how automating configuration can provide return on investment.

No Jitter Marketplace Focus: Aastra

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:56:00 GMT

Dana Call, EVP and GM for Aastra USA, discusses Aastra acquisitions, product architectures, and the challenging economy.

Interacting with customers via SMS or however they prefer--with Interactive Intelligence's Tim Passios

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:40:00 GMT

Tim Passios, director, solutions marketing for Interactive Intelligence, explains their new offering, which integrates SMS messaging with the contact center and why Interactive Intelligence sees the contact center as a good launching point for Unified Communications in the enterprise, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Growing IT in a shrinking market through hard cost savings--with Siemens' Jon Anderson

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:04:00 GMT

Jon Anderson, senior manager, competitive marketing for Siemens Enterprise, discusses life under Siemens' joint venture with the Gores Group, and how focusing on hard dollar savings as part of tightening expenses in the enterprise can help IT grow in a softening economy, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

UC Integration and empowering users through UC--with Avaya's Lawrence Byrd

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:39:00 GMT

Lawrence Byrd, director, UC architecture for Avaya, discusses Avaya's integration of the UC endpoint interface into its IP telephony options, empowering users by supporting multiple kinds of clients, and te changes in Avaya's leadership, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

QOE vs. QOS and network management for UC and Microsoft OCS--with Polycom's Jim McQuaid

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:27:00 GMT

Jim McQuaid, director of product management for NetQoS, explains why it's essential to manage application performance and QOE (quality of experience) and not just QOS, as well as the improvements to NetQoS's Unified Comunications Monitor, which now manages the Microsoft OCS platform and video, as well the Cisco IP Telephony platform, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Enterprise video management, HD voice and more--with Polycom's Marty Sexton and Tim Yankey

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:47:00 GMT

Marty Sexton, senior product marketing manager, video solutions, discusses the growing market for video in the enterprise and Polycom's CMA (Converged Management Application) which facilitates centralized management of video endpoints; Tim Yankey, director, product marketing, voice solutions, describes Polycom's HD phone and codec, which increase frequency range and clarity without significantly increasing bandwidth, and which are being announced at VoiceCon San Francisco, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Network Monitoring for the Contact Center--with Brian Gollaher of Empirix

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:08:00 GMT

Brian Gollaher, Senior Product Manager, Contact Centers, Empirix, discusses network monitoring for the contact center--how load testing and transaction monitoring can help you keep track of what's going on in the network--with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Measuring QOS and QOE for voice and video communications--with Dr. Mike Hollier of Psytechnics

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:26:00 GMT

Dr. Mike Hollier, CTO, Psytechnics, discusses why it can be more important to measure quality of experience (QOE) than QOS in digital voice and video communications, and some surprising analog connectivity problems can crop up in digital voice and video, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Configuring IP Telephony Systems - with Steve Guthrie of CA

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:23:00 GMT

Steve Guthrie, director of Product Marketing, CA, discusses configuration errors as a source of trouble in IP Telephony systems and how to address these problems, with NoJitter editor Eric Krapf.

Telepresence, Unified Communications, and IT buying in 2008--with Cisco's Chris Thompson

Mon, 19 May 2008 16:50:00 GMT

Chris Thompson, Senior Director for Solutions Marketing, Cisco, discusses Cisco"s Telepresence solution and how it can work with other video and rich communications solutions to improve productivity, UC interoperability versus best-of-breed decision-making and how the economy will affect IT buying in the second half of 2008, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Desktop video, mobility, and why enterprise communications hardware is still important--with ShoreTel's Steve Timmerman

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:19:00 GMT

Steve Timmerman, Vice President of Marketing, ShoreTel, discusses the growing role for desktop video in enterprise communications, mobility, and the relative importance of hardware and software in enterprise communications networking, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Unified Communications, virtualization, and managed services--with Mitel's Simon Gwatkin

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:40:00 GMT

Simon Gwatkin, VP of Strategic Marketing, Mitel, discusses the problem defining Unified Communicationsthe trend in VOIP toward virtualization and a software-based model and what that evolution means for customization of enterprise communication networks, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

UC: What's really being deployed, where and how--with Mark Slaga, Dimension Data

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:04:00 GMT

Mark Slaga, CTO and CIO, Dimension Data, discusses what Unified Communications (UC) features are actually being deployed and used, where and how, and the most effective ways that large enterprises can roll it out, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Unified Communications, messaging and strategic IT budgeting--with AVST's Hardy Myers

Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:24:00 GMT

Hardy Myers, President and CEO, AVST, discusses Unified Communications, messaging, mobility, extensibility and strategic IT budgeting and procurement in a slowing economy with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf .

Unified Communications on OCS 2007--with Microsoft's Gurdeep Singh Pall

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:50:00 GMT

Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate VP, Unified Communications Group, Microsoft, discusses initial deployments of the UC-enabled Office Communications Server 2007, the UC market, UC initiatives within Microsoft and the bid for Yahoo! with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

UC, CEBP and integrating communications into the business infrastructure--with Jorge Blanco of Avaya

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:23:00 GMT

NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf interviews Jorge Blanco, Vice President, Soltuons Marketing, Avaya, about Unified Communications, communications-enabled business processes and how these new technologies move communications into the business infrastructure, and Avaya's role in that future.

Communications as software, video and other trends for 2008--with Mark Straton of Siemens

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:41:00 GMT

NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf interviews Mark Straton, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications, about Unified Communications, communications as software, the growing impact of video and other enterprise communications trends for 2007.