Uncategorized VIDEO: Network World Canada at Interop New York, part 1 of 5 Jennifer Kavur @itworldca Published: September 25th, 2008Convergence and unified communicationsManfred Arndt, distinguished technologist and convergence solutions architect for HP ProCurve, sat down with Network World Canada at the Interop business technology event in New York City to share his 20-year insight on SMB and enterprise networking.According to Arndt, convergence is an area that’s really starting to see a lot of attraction. “Unified communications hold a lot of promise because it is going to seamlessly blend a lot of these tools that users are already experiencing themselves on their cell phones,” he said.“The difference in a work environment is you don’t have a device made by a single vendor…you have many different types of devices, both mobile and fixed, you have desktop phones, you have email systems…it’s a lot more challenging because it’s a lot of applications from different vendors that need to be integrated together.”In part one of our five-part video series, Arndt elaborates with an example on improving telephone customer service.Upcoming videos will post next week…Part 2: Why IP telephony is better than a legacy systemPart 3: Benefits of videoPart 4: When redundancy becomes importantPart 5: Multicasting is the next major trendWould you recommend this article?00 Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think of this article! We'd love to hear your opinion about this or any other story you read in our publication. Click this link to send me a note →Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada Related Download Sponsor: Carbon60 Moving to the Cloud: Beyond the Myths Get on the road to cloud success by moving past the myths around it. Register Now Uncategorized