Hakon Dahle, Chief Technologist, TANDBERG: Unified communications has a lot of things. Instant messaging, presence, voice, email, voice mail and video and the most important part of unified communications is business quality video. That's what really adds value to unified communications. And at TANDBERG, we believe that if everyone knew what video could do, then everyone would want it.
This is the new way of working. It allows you to do more with less to be more efficient and to reduce costs. It allows you to transform the business to get access to experts wherever they might be to unify the organization and to accelerate decision making, and it's about being greener, traveling less, polluting less, yet still being able to meet face-to-face. But for this to work, there are some very key requirements that have to be in place.
First of all, access for everyone. I believe everyone should have access to video wherever they are, whether it's in the telepresence studio, the meeting room, at their desks, at home or even when they do have to travel, they should be able to communicate over video. And that's why we are working with Microsoft on integration with Microsoft OCS allowing Office Communicator users to connect on video right there from their PC wherever they are.
It's also about quality. Quality is absolute. We are talking about business quality video, not consumer grade video. We are talking about high definition everywhere from a telepresence studio to the meeting room all the way to the PC. That's why we have developed the TANDBERG high definition USB camera, which allows high definition video calling right from the PC.
It also needs to be really easy to use. This has to work the first time, it has to work every time. And if these requirements are met, this will enable a new way of working.
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