* Efforts include enhancing security features for SIP trunking and suggesting ways to more easily configure SIP endpoints.
* Nymgo's VoIP-based calling plans start as low as $0.004 per minute for U.S. calls, $0.013 for calls to India and $0.008 for calls to China
* Allows businesses to bring converged services to the desktop using BT and Cisco's cloud computing-based technologies
* The platform is designed to be run from partner data centers, and it is optimized for delivery by the Cisco UCS
* An analysis contends that UC is the convergence of six communication products areas -- some of which have existed have existed for years and alongside others that are recent entries
* Any Cisco TelePresence customer of BT's Global Video Exchange or Tata Communications' Global Meeting Exchange can invite clients of the other service provider to join them in multipoint telepresence meetings
* Cisco Quad is a platform designed for enterprise collaboration to integrates voice, video and social networking into one workspace
* Big Blue stresses the importance of adding effective collaboration tools to unified communication
* Speakeasy offers a portfolio of broadband services and hosted VoIP targeted to the small business market
* Video traffic continues to be the most significant growth factor -- globally Internet video traffic will surpass peer-to-peer traffic by the end of 2010
