Whereas the first wave of enterprise convergence projects focused on creating a single infrastructure based upon the internet protocol (IP), companies are now focusing on the challenge of integrating their major business applications with real-time communications running over IP. This is one of the main findings from a survey of 236 executives (including 77 CEOs) on network convergence issues conducted in 2005 by the Economist Intelligence Unit in co-operation with AT&T.

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