Video Conferencing Conference and Expo
Telepresence and video conferencing continue to gain converts. Constant innovation is improving experience quality and enabling desktop solutions now allow individuals to join video calls from almost anywhere. But these technologies demand much from you and your network, and their voracious bandwidth needs threaten to swamp other applications. The Video Conferencing track will help you make sense of the myriad video solution options ranging from desktop to telepresence, and will explain how to successfully incorporate video transport into your enterprise network while continuing to accommodate the needs of all your applications.
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 3 Choosing a video conferencing system is daunting. You face a sea of choices. Solutions range from multi-million dollar telepresence suites to desktop software available for pocket change. Your supporting infrastructure can be ad hoc, centralized within your enterprise, integrated with voice or unified communications solutions, or outsourced to a managed services provider. Which technologies will best suit your needs? This session presents a decision tree approach for sifting through vendor offerings and hype so you can determine the right size, bandwidth, features and infrastructure to meet your visual communications needs. Speaker - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 3 Real-time traffic (voice and video) demand that the network provide low latency, low packet loss and low jitter. Today’s dynamic networks are constantly changing, and the distributed nature of network configuration often lead to errors in design or implementation that can cause quality problems for voice and video conferencing applications. A new breed of testing methodologies and tools is required to test or monitor networks and to isolate problems. This session will explore the need for these tools, will categorize the tools and will list vendors that provide the different kinds of solutions needed to manage today’s complex converged networks. You’ll also learn how to use these tools to troubleshoot when problems do arise. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 3 Video conferencing is arguably the toughest application your enterprise network must support. It gobbles bandwidth while demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support enterprise video conferencing is key to its acceptance as a business tool. This session will explore technical aspects of designing, testing, and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence -- and dive deeply into security, LAN QoS, and WAN QoS issues. Speaker - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 3 Just last year Polycom and Tandberg were the top two players providing primarily room-based video conferencing equipment running H.323 to enterprises, with a number of additional players in the market working hard to take away some of their market share. Suddenly we have Cisco as the largest video vendor and HP announcing a strong new line of products with their partner Vidyo. Desktop video conferencing is on the rise. Unified Communications (UC) architectures are becoming the core of the video infrastructure involving Microsoft, IBM and Avaya in the fray, and using SIP as the standard for video signaling. How will all this settle out? If I am making a video conferencing decision now that I want to sustain my company for the foreseeable future, which way should I go? In this panel, the video conferencing vendors will discuss these key transitions and how they see the market shaping up as we move forward. Join us to see if they agree or disagree, and learn which vendor’s vision best suits the requirements of your company. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Panelist - John Antanaitis, VP, Product Marketing, Video Solutions Group, Polycom Inc. John Antanaitis is the Vice President of Product Marketing for the Video Solutions division at Polycom. He leads a global team responsible for marketing Polycom’s industry leading video solutions including desktop video collaboration, high-definition personal, room and immersive telepresence systems, and infrastructure solutions for video network management and recording, streaming and video content management. Antanaitis joined Polycom in 2002 after spending five years in Marketing and General Management for Stanley Tool Works and Fortune Brands. Prior to that, he spent almost ten years with Motorola, working in various functional disciplines including engineering, operations and marketing. He has a Masters of Management (MBA) with majors in Marketing and Operations Management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois. Panelist - Ken Davison, VP of Marketing, Magor Communications Ken Davison has more than 25 years of experience in the telecom industry. For the last 15 years, Mr. Davison has held numerous senior management roles in marketing, sales, product management and business development, with responsibility for corporate worldwide activities. Prior to joining Magor Communications, Mr. Davison held senior positions at Siemens AG (Unisphere Networks), Newbridge Networks (VP of Europe and Corporate VP of Marketing) and several telecom start-ups including Gridpoint Systems, Meriton Networks (acquired by Xtera Communications), DragonWave and Critical Telecom. Panelist - James Fairweather, Vice President - Worldwide Sales, Halo, Unified Collaboration, Hewlett-Packard Jim Fairweather serves as vice president of worldwide sales, HP Halo Visual Collaboration Solutions. Fairweather has responsibility for the development and execution of global sales and channel strategy and management of the HP Halo sales team. Prior to this appointment, Fairweather held several other executive positions in the communications industry. He was the vice president of sales at Polycom, Inc., leading the global sales team. Fairweather has also held executive sales and management positions at Honeywell Bull, Stratus Computer, MCI WorldCom and PitureTel.
Throughout his career, Fairweather has been very active in community and industry groups. He is a member of Massachusetts Telecommunications Council and served as a regional chairman and president for The Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He also managed the first political implementation of video conferencing at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston, MA.
Fairweather holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Bentley College and graduated from the University of Michigan School of Business Executive Sales Management Program.
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Video Conferencing Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Video Conferencing vendors.
Click on a column header to re-sort the exhibitor list:
A | C | E | H | I | L | P | S| Company | Booth |
|---|---|
 Avistar
 Avistar is an innovation leader in the unified visual communications industry, providing proven business-class desktop visual communications solutions. Clients quickly recognize lower operating costs and improve productivity while using the Avistar C3™ all software communications platform, without impairing network performance or critical business applications. Please visit www.avistar.com. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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437 |
Axis Communications
 Axis is an IT company offering network video solutions for professional installations. The company is a global market leader in network video, driving the ongoing shift from analog to digital video surveillance. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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350 |
Cisco
 Cisco unveils capabilities to maximize participation anytime, anywhere, to any device, securely, reliably and seamlessly, and delivered through virtualized and cloud-based services. With innovations for the network and the data center, Cisco delivers new technologies, solutions, and services that enable transformational business models. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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121 |
| Ezenia Inc.
Ezenia is proud and excited to be at the forefront of some of the most sophisticated collaboration products available today. Ezenia’s products are developed to provide people with the technology they need to work together regardless of their location, to make them more effective and efficient. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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842 |
HP
  ProviderHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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716 |
| IPC Technologies, Inc/ShoreTel
IPC Technologies, founded in 1981 has been at the forefront of offering best of breed products and services to companies all over the world. Based in the Capitol Region, IPC is focused on becoming the leading provider of communications products with ShoreTel, Aerohive, LifeSize and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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349 |
Lifesize Communications
 LifeSize, a division of Logitech, believes in the power of video to help people do more while travelling less. The company designs and delivers high definition video communications products that provide a productive, true-to-life experience. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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329 423 |
Polycom, Inc.
 ProviderAddress Website Products/Services Offered
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157 |
| Processor
Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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829 |
| Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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722 |
Video Conferencing Conference
Telepresence and video conferencing continue to gain converts. Constant innovation is improving experience quality and enabling desktop solutions now allow individuals to join video calls from almost anywhere. But these technologies demand much from you and your network, and their voracious bandwidth needs threaten to swamp other applications. The Video Conferencing track will help you make sense of the myriad video solution options ranging from desktop to telepresence, and will explain how to successfully incorporate video transport into your enterprise network while continuing to accommodate the needs of all your applications.
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
|---|---|
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 3 Choosing a video conferencing system is daunting. You face a sea of choices. Solutions range from multi-million dollar telepresence suites to desktop software available for pocket change. Your supporting infrastructure can be ad hoc, centralized within your enterprise, integrated with voice or unified communications solutions, or outsourced to a managed services provider. Which technologies will best suit your needs? This session presents a decision tree approach for sifting through vendor offerings and hype so you can determine the right size, bandwidth, features and infrastructure to meet your visual communications needs. Speaker - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 3 Real-time traffic (voice and video) demand that the network provide low latency, low packet loss and low jitter. Today’s dynamic networks are constantly changing, and the distributed nature of network configuration often lead to errors in design or implementation that can cause quality problems for voice and video conferencing applications. A new breed of testing methodologies and tools is required to test or monitor networks and to isolate problems. This session will explore the need for these tools, will categorize the tools and will list vendors that provide the different kinds of solutions needed to manage today’s complex converged networks. You’ll also learn how to use these tools to troubleshoot when problems do arise. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 3 Video conferencing is arguably the toughest application your enterprise network must support. It gobbles bandwidth while demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support enterprise video conferencing is key to its acceptance as a business tool. This session will explore technical aspects of designing, testing, and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence -- and dive deeply into security, LAN QoS, and WAN QoS issues. Speaker - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 3 Just last year Polycom and Tandberg were the top two players providing primarily room-based video conferencing equipment running H.323 to enterprises, with a number of additional players in the market working hard to take away some of their market share. Suddenly we have Cisco as the largest video vendor and HP announcing a strong new line of products with their partner Vidyo. Desktop video conferencing is on the rise. Unified Communications (UC) architectures are becoming the core of the video infrastructure involving Microsoft, IBM and Avaya in the fray, and using SIP as the standard for video signaling. How will all this settle out? If I am making a video conferencing decision now that I want to sustain my company for the foreseeable future, which way should I go? In this panel, the video conferencing vendors will discuss these key transitions and how they see the market shaping up as we move forward. Join us to see if they agree or disagree, and learn which vendor’s vision best suits the requirements of your company. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Panelist - John Antanaitis, VP, Product Marketing, Video Solutions Group, Polycom Inc. John Antanaitis is the Vice President of Product Marketing for the Video Solutions division at Polycom. He leads a global team responsible for marketing Polycom’s industry leading video solutions including desktop video collaboration, high-definition personal, room and immersive telepresence systems, and infrastructure solutions for video network management and recording, streaming and video content management. Antanaitis joined Polycom in 2002 after spending five years in Marketing and General Management for Stanley Tool Works and Fortune Brands. Prior to that, he spent almost ten years with Motorola, working in various functional disciplines including engineering, operations and marketing. He has a Masters of Management (MBA) with majors in Marketing and Operations Management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois. Panelist - Ken Davison, VP of Marketing, Magor Communications Ken Davison has more than 25 years of experience in the telecom industry. For the last 15 years, Mr. Davison has held numerous senior management roles in marketing, sales, product management and business development, with responsibility for corporate worldwide activities. Prior to joining Magor Communications, Mr. Davison held senior positions at Siemens AG (Unisphere Networks), Newbridge Networks (VP of Europe and Corporate VP of Marketing) and several telecom start-ups including Gridpoint Systems, Meriton Networks (acquired by Xtera Communications), DragonWave and Critical Telecom. Panelist - James Fairweather, Vice President - Worldwide Sales, Halo, Unified Collaboration, Hewlett-Packard Jim Fairweather serves as vice president of worldwide sales, HP Halo Visual Collaboration Solutions. Fairweather has responsibility for the development and execution of global sales and channel strategy and management of the HP Halo sales team. Prior to this appointment, Fairweather held several other executive positions in the communications industry. He was the vice president of sales at Polycom, Inc., leading the global sales team. Fairweather has also held executive sales and management positions at Honeywell Bull, Stratus Computer, MCI WorldCom and PitureTel.
Throughout his career, Fairweather has been very active in community and industry groups. He is a member of Massachusetts Telecommunications Council and served as a regional chairman and president for The Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He also managed the first political implementation of video conferencing at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston, MA.
Fairweather holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Bentley College and graduated from the University of Michigan School of Business Executive Sales Management Program.
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Video Conferencing Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Video Conferencing vendors.
Click on a column header to re-sort the exhibitor list:
A | C | E | H | I | L | P | S| Company | Booth |
|---|---|
| Avistar
Avistar is an innovation leader in the unified visual communications industry, providing proven business-class desktop visual communications solutions. Clients quickly recognize lower operating costs and improve productivity while using the Avistar C3™ all software communications platform, without impairing network performance or critical business applications. Please visit www.avistar.com. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
|
437 |
| Axis Communications
Axis is an IT company offering network video solutions for professional installations. The company is a global market leader in network video, driving the ongoing shift from analog to digital video surveillance. Address Website Products/Services Offered
|
350 |
| Cisco
Cisco unveils capabilities to maximize participation anytime, anywhere, to any device, securely, reliably and seamlessly, and delivered through virtualized and cloud-based services. With innovations for the network and the data center, Cisco delivers new technologies, solutions, and services that enable transformational business models. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
|
121 |
| Ezenia Inc.
Ezenia is proud and excited to be at the forefront of some of the most sophisticated collaboration products available today. Ezenia’s products are developed to provide people with the technology they need to work together regardless of their location, to make them more effective and efficient. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
|
842 |
| HP
Provider HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
|
716 |
| IPC Technologies, Inc/ShoreTel
IPC Technologies, founded in 1981 has been at the forefront of offering best of breed products and services to companies all over the world. Based in the Capitol Region, IPC is focused on becoming the leading provider of communications products with ShoreTel, Aerohive, LifeSize and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
|
349 |
| Lifesize Communications
LifeSize, a division of Logitech, believes in the power of video to help people do more while travelling less. The company designs and delivers high definition video communications products that provide a productive, true-to-life experience. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
|
329 423 |
| Polycom, Inc.
Provider Address Website Products/Services Offered
|
157 |
| Processor
Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
|
829 |
| Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
|
722 |
