He also observed that the growth of enterprises based in Hong Kong brings ever more complex communications demands, such as the need to cover more geographic zones, increased employee mobility and remote working practices.

To address today's business challenges companies should become more "virtual" and build their activities around people interactions and communication, stressed Remond.

"Convergence enables this to happen with video, data and voice sharing the same infrastructure resulting in both lower initial investment and ongoing IT administration costs," he added.

Alcatel is partnering with conferencing provider Polycom to provide integrated voice, video and data communications in an effort to aid enterprise collaboration efforts.

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