After a long pause, there is a killer application to get people in the networking and computing industry excited: it is the so called "Unified Communication (UC)". Industrial leaders such as Cisco and Microsoft are in the game, so are hundreds smaller companies. The UC solutions from the IP centric vendors are flocking to the market, while the traditional PBX guys are also transforming their existing products to meet the demand.

Cisco is pushing its Teleprsence solution to the market. The acquisition of WeBex by Cisco allows it to penetrate to the SMB market. Microsoft has the Live Meeting for a long time, now it is providing an enterprise solution in this space.

Is the Unified Communication big enough to take the industry to another phase?

What technologies will lead in this round of competition?

Who will be the winners and losers in this battle?

What can you do to take advantage of the emergence of this new technology and applications?
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There are still too many unanswered questions out there for us the think, which make our life interesting.