Unified Communication and Collaboration

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=Broadband video = Broadband video provides the ability to see, hear and talk to geographical dispersed people in real time. It requires high speeds over the Internet by using a computer or similar technologies. The worldwide broadband video market will exceed $16 billion by 2010.

When high-speed Internet connectivity is available, the cost of technology to capture and display video will decrease. And broadband video has become increasingly popular.

= Lotus Sametime = According to IBM study, 57% of users are looking for Unified Communication and Collaboration (UC²). So IBM plans to present a new product called 'Sametime Unyte'.

Version 7
The stable Lotus Sametime version 7.5.1 is used by 16 millions professionnals in major industries.

Version 8
Available since november 2007, Sametime 8 will unify communication and collaboration.

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= Major competitors in telecommunications =
 * Alcatel Lucent
 * Apple
 * ATT
 * Cisco
 * IBM
 * Microsoft