As businesses grow across borders, a new era in branch office IT is emerging born out of systemic business efficiency planning prompted by business leaders efforts to reduce corporate spending as revenues declined during the market crash of 2008. To assist business and IT leaders reduce operational spend, get closer to customers, automate new streamlined business processes and position their firms for the current economic recovery, Cisco has launched the second generation of Integrated Services Routers or ISR G2, their flagship branch office solution for Borderless Networks. Shashi Kiran Senior Manager Network Systems and Security of Cisco Systems discusses macro business trends and explores how these trends are creating a new era in Enterprise Networks.

We live in an ever-increasingly connected world where our workspace is with us constantly, independent of geographic location and user device. The days of boundaries or obstacles to access information that location, applications and devices would erect are limited and dwindling. These boundaries are being torn down by business necessity, personal preferences and technical innovations. Joel Conover, Senior Marketing Manager at Cisco Systems joins me to discuss a new Cisco network architecture that addresses today's most complex IT challenges called Borderless Networks.

This short Lippis Vidcast is on Cisco’s Borderless Networks architecture and its ISR G2 launch.

Avaya Aura is being extended to the mid sized enterprise market by simplifying its packaging into a single server solution loaded with unified communications and contact center applications. The Mid Market is typically characterized as 100 to 250 employees with revenues of $50M to $1B dollars. These Line of Business (LoB) managers seek to increase revenue and improve customer experience while differentiating against larger competitors. Their IT issues include older and dead ended communication technologies, limited IT and contact center agent staff and the need to rapidly reduce cost. To make LoB and IT ends meet, the Avaya Aura solution for Mid-Size Enterprises is offered for businesses with up to 2,400 users and 250 locations. Bruce Mazza Director of Unified Communications Market Solutions for Avaya joins me to discuss the mid enterprise market challenge.