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UC industry pundits like myself frequently speak about disruption and inflection points. It's a theme that over the past decade has ceased to get old. We use these terms to describe significant shifts occurring in the industry, such as digital to IP, prem to cloud, hardware to software, and hard phone to softphones. It also applies to less distinct shifts such as next generation applications and mobile-first/cloud-first.

The big UC news this week did come from Vegas, but not from the main CES event. It came from a smaller conference within CES known as the AT&T Developer Summit. AT&T announced a new Call Management API that allows developers to program in their preferred language (such as JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, and Groovy) to extend communications features to applications.