Australian Unified Communications Leaders – Chris Luxford CEO 3D Networks

oscartr — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:04:00 GMT

Name	Chris Luxford
Your title	CEO
Your organisation	3D Networks
Favourite movie	One Crazy Summer
Favourite book	The Stand (Stephen King)
The question you get asked most often by your customers about Unified Communications	Is it real? A lot of customers hear about it and think it's just a new buzz word for VoIP or IP Tel. A lot believe desktop messaging is UC or IM (which they then say is free) is UC. As you explain the full solution encompassing presence, voice, video, IM, collab tools, device agnostic, and profile management they start to see UC as something quite different and then want to understand more about it, how it works, where the real underlying value is and what it takes to get there.
Other than your own organisation, which company do you collaborate the most with around Unified Communications?	We probably collaborate mostly with Nortel. We run the same unified comms solutions as them and use it a lot to improve the ways our teams collaborate. The additional productivity, ease and intelligence achieved is extremely valuable.
Your bold prediction for unified communication is that by 2010 …	We will communicate without boundaries, we will have a single contact address and will be reached on multiple devices at anytime, anywhere by that address. The technology exists today but it needs to penetrate devices.

Unified Communications Market in Australia Version 1.0 Definition

oscartr — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:25:00 GMT

I have made a listing of the players in the Australian Unified Communications market place.

The reason I am putting this listing out is making sure everyone locally is connecting with the right organisations

Unified Communications means all industry players need to work together for the benefit of our joint customers

Tell me if I am missing some great local market players.

Let me know if you would like your Unified Communications solution highlighted on our Unified Communications Down Under Blog

3D Networks	Gartner	PolyCom
Adtech Global Solutions	Genesys	Professional Advantage
Alcatel	gen-i	Propensity International
Allcom Networks Pty Ltd	Getronics	Schepisi Communications
Alphawest	Global Connect	Siemens
Avanade	HandsOn Systems	Solutions IT
Avaya	HP	Southern Cross Computer Systems
Blue Arc	IBM	StarCom
BroadReach	I-Comm	Strategic Data Management
C4 Systems Pty Ltd	Integ	TANDBERG
Calltime	IPFX	Tecala
Cisco	KAZ Group	Telsyte
Commander	L7 Solutions	Telstra
Computer Systems (Australia)	LongNeck Consulting	The Frame Group
Computer Telephone Integration	Market Clarity	Total Network Support Pty Ltd
CSC	Message Manager	Unique World Group
Data #3	Mitel	Unisys
Dimension Data	NEC	VoIP Pty Ltd
EDS	Netstar	Webcentral
EMC	New Era Communications	Westan Australia Pty Ltd
Essential Data + Voice	Nortel	Xtream
Frost & Sullivan	NSC	Zeacom
Fujitsu	OBS
	Optus
	Ovum