In this Lippis Report podcast, I interview Barry O'Sullivan on Cisco's IP Telephony strategy and tactics.  We discuss Cisco's SIP strategy within its Call Manager 5.0, its newly released Unified Communications and its approach to communications application development.  You'll learn that Cisco's Unified Communications is not the integration of e-mail, v-mail and fax but a larger approach to providing portals to multiple communications and back-end applications.  You may be surprised to hear Cisco's opinion on Web Services/SOA.  It's a great listen, enjoy.

Zeus Kerravala and I discuss two large industry announcements.  First, we dive into Microsoft's new Unified Communications announcement which we believe will start the communication application wars between Microsoft and the IP telephony vendors such as Cisco, Avaya, Siemens, Nortel, et al.  Then we weigh in on the pros and cons of the Nokia Siemens Networks joint venture and what will happen with their enterprise businesses.  We check the mood of the market by reporting on the Cisco and Nortel user group conferences.  We spend 25 minutes covering these important topics.  Enjoy.

I explore the third phase of IP telephony, the strategic value phase, which combines business process modeling tools with SOA and communications to deliver the new application creation model.  This new communications-enabled application creation model is being used by service providers and developed by all the major IT software and some IP telephony vendors.  Lawrence Catchpole Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder of M1 Global joins the program to explain the benefits of communications-enabled business process.