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Blog U.: Unified Communications at Illinois - The Education of Oronte Churm - Inside Higher Ed

Blog U.: Unified Communications at Illinois - The Education of Oronte Churm - Inside Higher Ed


  • Unified Communications at Illinois

    By Oronte August 11, 2010 6:15 pm
    Several sessions were held this week by Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to explain the campus move from “legacy” technology to Microsoft’s unified communications system.
    The session I attended, for faculty, was held in a three-ballroom space filled with hundreds of chairs. It was staffed with six or eight people, including three Microsoft reps, and they had enough technology among them to run the Bulgarian space program. Two large screens, one on either side of the dais, had been set up for the demonstration so everyone could see, but