ONGOING TRENDS
Videoconferencing: Platforms and Pitfalls -By Ed Wenck, CEDIA
“When it comes to unified communication, collaboration companies that were not agile enough to move to the cloud really struggled.” - by David Danto, imcca.org
As more and more integrators install unified communications for both home and office, it’s key to know just what’s out there – and what can trip you up David Danto, Director of Emerging Technology for the Interactive Multimedia and Collaborative Communications Alliance (imcca.org), has a pretty interesting take on the pandemic: “When it came to unified communications, we finally had the ‘flush test.’ “Everybody went home and flushed their toilets at exactly the same time to see if the plumbing exploded.” From GoToMeeting to Teams to Zoom, workers around the world went home and logged in. The big players, as we’ve heard over and over, passed that “flush test.” But among them, were there clear winners? Short answer: Not really, since everybody has
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