(Alternate Title: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Facebook and Twitter)
Last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston is in the books, and while I’d like to give the usual kudos to Steve Wylie and team for a well organized, and well executed event, I thought it also appropriate the share some thoughts as I look back.
At this week’s VoiceCon conference I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion featuring Cisco VP & CTO of UC, Joe Burton, and IBM Lotus UC and Collaboration Services U.S. Leader Peter Fay on the role of Web 2.0 in an enterprise UC architecture.
At VoiceCon this week Microsoft’s Gurdeep Singh Paul argued that the desktop phone is dead, and that organizations who fail to make the switch to PC (or application) based telephony will fall behind those that do.
The SIP working group within the ITEF has just published an Internet Draft describing SIP’s vulnerability to relay attack and some possible mitigations. The attack method is via a “man-in-the-middle” approach whereby the attacker inserts himself in between the victim and their outbound proxy server, and initiates a session with the victim.
Given SIP’s role as the common protocol within a unified communications architecture, it’s important to be aware of security threats, especially as organizations widen their adoption of SIP-to-SIP extranet connectivity and SIP trunking for PSTN access.
President Obama won a small victory this week, getting to keep his Blackberry, but it’s not your standard-issue Curve or Storm that will hang from the President’s hip, rather he will use a Sectera Edge, made by General Dynamics, and NSA approved at a cost of several thousand dollars. The Obama administration, ripe with 20-somethings, with the first Presidential blog, and masters of Facebook, has also been told that instant messaging is no longer allowed. How can arguably the most important distributed organization in the world function effectively in today’s world with out access to even the most basic collaboration tools? Marc Ambinder notes that Obama’s aides have been advised to use the telephone for important communications. Will they at least have access to a unified communications dashboard that displays availability?
Nortel today declared chapter 11 bankruptcy for its US and Canadian operations (follow the story over on NoJitter.com). Nortel has been around for over 110 years, transforming itself many times over the years. In the last two years, at least on the enterprise side, Nortel has focused on competing with the likes of Cisco as an end-to-end voice & data systems vendor, while differentiating itself via a deep partnership with Microsoft’s UC offerings and a growing partnership with IBM Lotus. More recently Nortel has introduced initiatives in virtual worlds applications and communications-enabled business process platforms.
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Jun 26th, 2009 |
