Workshop B4: A Pragmatic View of Collaboration Technology Trends
Thursday, September 14, 2006, 11:45am - 12:45

The coming generation of network architectures, software designs, and end user applications will introduce a whole new era for the collaboration market. Ease of use, presence and tightly integrated applications will drive end user adoption to new levels which will in turn demand larger and more capable network solutions for CSP’s. IMS, SIP, media servers, and application servers promise to save the day. However, a more pragmatic approach focused on solutions rather than technology may be the real answer.

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Joe Sigrist, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Network Systems, Polycom, Inc

Joe is the Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Network Systems division of Polycom. He is a twenty year industry veteran of networking and telecommunications companies with experience in both the enterprise and service provider markets, having held senior executive, product management and engineering positions with Lucent Technologies, Ascend Communications and Octel Communications. Most recently Joe was CEO of Hammerhead Systems, a networking startup. He joined Polycom in early 2006 and is responsible for leading product development, product management and marketing, and integration for Polycom’s market-leading voice and video bridges and network infrastructure software. As president and general manager of the Edge Access Division at Lucent, Joe drove Lucent’s voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) strategy for softswitches, media gateways and servers, as well as Lucent’s dial access servers and ATM access systems to worldwide service providers.