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Will Cellular Fixed-Mobile Convergence Finally Happen With UC/Collaboration?

Michael Finneran  (Principal, dBrn Associates)

Doug Jones  (Assistant Vice President Voice and Collaboration Services, AT&T)

Praveen Mamnani  (VP Product Management, RingCentral)

Mahendra Sekaran  (Vice President of Engineering, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft)

D.P. Venkatesh  (VP Growth Strategy - Cisco Collaboration, Webex by Cisco)

Location: Sun B

Date: Monday, March 27

Time: 9:00 am - 9:45 am

Pass Type: Entire Event Orlando - Monday-Thursday - Get your pass now!

Session Type: Session

Track: Management & Networks

Vault Recording: TBD

UC and team collaboration vendors have struggled for years to deliver better mechanisms to integrate cellular voice services with their platforms to provide a frictionless and more functional mobile capability. Now, newer offerings like Microsoft's Operator Connect Mobile, Cisco's WebEx Go, and RingCentral (through its partnership with AT&T Office@Hand Wireless) have changed the prospects for mobile UC and team collaboration, as carriers open up their network interfaces to support dual numbers (i.e. business and Personal), no-touch set-up, and enhanced voice capabilities using real cellular connections rather than VoIP over cellular data. This session will feature a discussion that will help you understand the functionality available today, how the different vendors’ solutions compare, and what they intend for the future. You'll come away with a clearer understanding of how close we may be to meaningful integration of UC/team collaboration with native cellular.

Takeaways:

  • Learn how UC/team collaboration systems are integrating with cellular
  • Understand to what extent these new offerings allow you to give your end users a truly seamless mobility solution within your enterprise’s UC/team collaboration platform of choice
  • Get details on the cost of these new offerings, and whether there’s a business case for adopting them.
  • See what’s on the vendors’ roadmaps for continuing to enhance these services