A recently-presented webinar tackled the topic of “Integrated Conferencing Solutions: Hosted IP-based collaboration platforms for smaller or emerging market CSPs.”

“It's an opportune time for up-and-coming conferencing service providers to deploy collaboration solutions based on VoIP architectures,” webinar officials agreed, who then added that early adopters amongst the Conferencing Service Providers “have demonstrated the benefits and cost-efficiencies of these technologies in large hosted conferencing deployments.”

Now is the time, webinar officials agreed, for “smaller or emerging market CSPs still operating legacy Time-Division Multiplex (TDM) audio bridges to embrace IP-based audio conferencing platforms, and capture a fair share of the growing hosted collaboration market opportunity.”

Attendees learned about the trends and key requirements for business customers using hosted conferencing services, and how traditional TDM audio bridges are not keeping up. They also learned how IP-based conferencing platforms “not only deliver cost-efficiencies in hosted conferencing services, but offer the flexibility to integrate into collaboration processes and communication behaviours of your target markets.”

The webinar also helped attendees understand the equipment and features required to get started in entry-level systems, with the scalability to grow, or add video and web collaboration capabilities.

Key speakers included Ray Adensamer, senior product marketing manager of RadiSys (News - Alert), and Gordon Arthur, business development director of RadiSys. Ray has more than 20 years of achievements in the data and telecommunications industries in the areas of product marketing and business development, while Gordon has delivered collaboration, audio conferencing and enhanced service solutions to the telecommunications industry for the past 15 years.

For more information, a RadiSys whitepaper, “Integrated Conferencing Solutions: for Smaller or Emerging Collaboration Service Providers,” is available for download here.