Unified Communications Software: The Death of VoIP?

In 2006 Cisco re-positioned their entire VoIP portfolio as a UC portfolio, and in 2007 Microsoft announced they were entering the voice business, claiming that a software-based approach would lower voice expenses by 50%. In this podcast, Mark Straton Senior vice president, global marketing at Siemens Enterprise Communications provides his perspective on the opportunities and risks in the UC market. He predicts that today's legacy VoIP systems will be wiped out by new unified communications software paradigm.