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Fritz Nelson of TechWeb TV talks with Tom Minifie of AVST. Tom explains AVST's perspective on what Unified Communications is.

Fritz Nelson of TechWeb TV talks with Tom Minifie of AVST. Tom explains AVST's perspective on what Unified Communications is.Tom makes this salient comment: "You can't go out and buy Unified Communications. It's really a migration-type process. So you start with whatever you have today and you start to build upon that."

That's true of any migration, but it's a much more complicated issue with UC. As I blogged about yesterday, UC asks the enterprise to take an already complex, multi-vendor, minimally-interoperable environment, and add even more complexity. We've seen that just the migration from like-to-like TDM to IP PBXs has taken a decade of technology life and a half a decade of actual implementations--and that migration is, itself, not even half done, as Lisa Pierce explains in the feature at right.

That leads Tom to a pitch for interoperability, and specifically AVST's interoperability features. Here's the video: