Group online chat -- the latest technological iteration in the thrust toward improved real-time communications -- is becoming a must-have application in the enterprise. Chat has morphed from a late-night consumer favorite into a legitimate business tool as businesses have evolved their infrastructures from voicemail to e-mail and finally to instant messaging.
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1. Do you need your own server or a hosted service?
5. Do you want to interoperate with public IM systems such as AOL or MSN? |
However, while all of those technologies have been one-to-one replacements for single conversations, chat is the beginning of a new movement toward replacing group meetings. It offers workable communications support for far-flung project teams, with the attendant obvious boost in productivity
The added good news is that IT managers can easily support chat applications, and CIOs can make a strong case for chat's return on investment, especially when compared with traditional voice conferencing and videoconferencing.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
