David Danto of Dimension Data joins UC Today 'Out Loud' to discuss Huddle Rooms and how they should be used for modern day collaboration.
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Presenter and Tech Journalist Patrick Watson is joined by David Danto.
In this pod David takes us through and introduction to Huddle Rooms and how they have developed throughout his career. David also explains how customer and supplier ideology needs to change to ensure maximum value is realised from communications and collaboration technology.
We also discuss the apparent lack of development in terms of technology solution design, which is failing to fully utilise the massive advances in hardware. David also considers the future for collaboration and huddle room tech and how consumers and businesses will interact with that.
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