Opal's Next Generation Network Forum
The convergence of voice and data over one network is changing the way businesses purchase ICT services, with far more expected from a next generation network and in turn IT professionals.
We invited our customers to Opal’s Next Generation Network Forum, giving them the opportunity to share best practice and their thoughts on the much debated issues affecting the ICT industry right now.
The day was opened by Opal’s own Transformation Director – Andy Lockwood, followed by keynote presentations from our partners.
See for yourself
View the short video above, for a flavour of the day and also see all the presentations below:
- Ovum Analyst - Peter Hall examined the transformation of IP communications, the opportunities provided by the cloud and the future of enterprise communications.
- Cisco Systems - Richard Osborne explored how to build future proofed networks which combine real-time services, such as voice and video, alongside traditional WAN and LAN traffic.
- Sonus Networks - Greg Zweig examined how SIP and VoIP as a public-switched service is finally coming of age and how businesses should be taking advantage of business grade SIP Trunking for their telephony solutions.
- Mitel - Marcus Jewell highlighted the business benefits of abstracting PBX functionality from the cloud and how it enables a rapid and flexible introduction of SaaS-based unified communications applications.