one-X

Got a demo of Avaya's UC strategy. Some good things, some not so good. Lots of open source, some consolidation of servers, single client for H.323, SIP, and video, integration with SameTime and Microsoft. Yet no unified management (third party was suggested), and no client for Mac OSX and Linux (other than a web portal application... more servers and more management interfaces and, just a web function... cheap excuse for development). At least SameTime has a Mac client, so they have seen the Zen light if not just the UC light.

Yes, Zen hovers over UC like some sort of spiritual presence (super presence?) waiting for all this telecom to enter heaven. Agnostics in heaven. Such a concept! Now I'm blogging about telecom philosophy... Back to Avaya...

Did really like the one-X mobile app. Works on most cell phones including iPhone. Has a GPS feature that will direct your preference based on location. Located in the office? Office phone rings. Located elsewhere? Cell phone rings. If this works, it's a tremendous feature, overcomes manual preference changes (forwarding) for those of us who never remember. Besides, way cool!