CTLink - Unified Communications: The Leading Authority

Siemens Enterprise Communications is the Choice of German Federal Employment Agency

Thursday, September 02, 2010
The German Federal Employment Agency has recently signed a full managed service contract with Siemens Enterprise Communications, worth over 100 million Euros for its eight-year duration. Siemens will handle construction for a telecommunication infrastructure for over 100,000 ports while providing hardware, software, and end-user devices for the employment agency.

Skype Connect 1.0 Launches

Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Skype has officially announced the end of beta testing and official launch of Skype Connect (formerly known as Skype for SIP). Skype Connect is intended to deliver a solution connecting Skype to IP-enabled private branch exchange (PBX) or Unified Communications systems.

Google's Android - Trouble in Paradise

Monday, August 30, 2010
A discussion of the challenges Google will face in maintaining the openness and functionality of the Android operating systems in the face of the structure of the mobile marketplace.

A consulting firm specializing in voice, data, video & wireless communications and collaboration

Jim Burton is Founder and CEO of CT Link, LLC. Burton founded the consulting firm in 1989 to help clients in the converging voice, data and networking industries with strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and distribution issues.

In the early 1990s, Burton recognized the challenges vendors and the channel faced as they developed and installed integrated voice/data products. He became the leading authority in the voice/data integration industry and is credited with "coining" the term computer-telephone integration (CTI). Burton helped companies including Microsoft and Intel enter the voice market and helped AT&T (now Avaya), Mitel, NEC, Nortel, Siemens and Toshiba with their CTI strategies.

In the late 1990s, venture capitalists turned to Burton for help in evaluating potential investments in IP PBX start-ups. He went on to help these and other companies with strategic planning and partnering, including NBX (acquired by 3Com, Selsius (acquired by Cisco), ShoreTel and Sphere Communications.

In the early 2000s, Burton began focusing on what he believed were emerging technologies that would have an even more profound impact than IP on the converging voice and data industry.