Integration of real time products, such as chat, telephony (including IP telephony), video conferences, call control and speech recognition, together with “un-real” time products such as voice mail, SMS messages and Fax. “Unified Communications” is not a standalone product, but a set of products, which present a constant user’s interface among many devices and media types.
IDC projected over 9 billion minutes of voice traffic to travel over worldwide packet networks in 2000, exceeding 135 billion minutes in 2004. Service revenue is projected at 1.6 billion in 2000 and 18.7 billion in 2004.