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Published :12/13/2008
| Author :Ken Landoline |
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The new communications environment of the twenty-first century is based on the virtual company concept and a mindset that requires individuals, communication systems and business processes to be instantaneously accessible and functional from anywhere and at anytime. The broad-based demand for mobility, the growing anywhere availability of high bandwidth internet access and the recent explosion in multi-mode communications networks has forever changed the expectations of businesses and their workers. This new environment demands a communications technology that facilitates, unifies and manages real-time, and near real-time interactions between humans, networks and devices with a common feel and interface experience. Unified communications, described as “the combination of products (hardware, software) and services that enhance individual, workgroup and organizational productivity by enabling management, integration and use of multiple enterprise communication methods (desktop phone, PC, IM, mobile device, etc.),” will be a critical building block of this new business environment. |
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Published :02/27/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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Year-end results for 2008 demonstrate that worldwide network security revenues were fairly resilient against the economic downturns as enterprises and service providers continued to invest in security products to meet security compliance obligations, transition to more robust technologies, and invest in integrated solutions to improve TCO. |
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Published :03/04/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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The mobile internet is reaching its tipping point, and the race to develop and exploit this valuable resource is growing more intense as vendors compete for market share. With infrastructure as its foundation, the mobile internet is comprised of a complex and rapidly evolving ecosystem of carrier networks, mobile devices, and business and consumer applications and services. |
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Published :03/12/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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LTE service roll-out dates are very optimistic, but mobile network operators are clearly committed, and mobile infrastructure vendors stand to benefit considerably over the course of the transition to 4G and beyond. Who will be the winners? |
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Published :03/22/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Well, yes and no, depending on which vendor you talk to. On Friday, Sony-Ericsson said that it expects to ship 42% fewer handsets in the first quarter of 2009 than it sold in the previous quarter, an announcement which does not augur well for the mobile industry.
Overall global mobile handset sales declined in the fourth quarter of 2008, and 2009 is shaping up to be a challenging year for handset manufacturers as consumers retrench and retailers and distributors reduce inventories. But is all doom and gloom? |
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Published :03/30/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Last week’s announcement by Vodafone and Telefonica that they would share infrastructure in some European countries has been heralded as the beginning of a new era of mobile infrastructure sharing. |
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Total Views :687 |
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Published :04/06/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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The CTIA 2009 spring event was one mobile industry show where mobile devices did not take center stage. Last week’s event was driven by two main themes: Mobile applications and LTE (long-term evolution). The big question is: Will carriers get a piece of the application action in the mobile world, or will they revert to being dumb pipes as they basically have with the internet? |
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Published :04/11/2009
| Author :Jeff Doyle |
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Consolidation and virtualization are two important trends in both service provider and enterprise networks. |
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Total Views :687 |
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Published :04/12/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Most of us who are involved in the mobile industry spent last week absorbing and processing all of the activity and announcements emanating from the CTIA show in Las Vegas, which wrapped up on April 3rd. |
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Published :05/05/2009
| Author :Dr. Ray Mota |
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Service providers are faced with the dual pressures of providing more entertainment, information, cloud, and collaboration services while simultaneously keeping an eye on cost containment, CapEx, and OpEx. Additionally, they face operational constraints such as power consumption, cooling capabilities, utilization levels, the ability to provision, and the ability to ensure continuity and data center longevity due to the complexity of their networks. Most service providers have networks where each area of service delivery requires its own packet network, computing powers, video head-end, video head office content caching, and central office equipment. |
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Published :05/10/2009
| Author :Sam Masud |
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In better economic times it would be an occasion to pop the champagne, but these are fiscally constrained times, and that’s why while Ciena’s announcement of the first 100-Gbps commercial optical network is certainly impressive it’s not time to pop the cork. |
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Published :03/18/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Yesterday Apple provided a preview of OS 3.0 for iPhone, which is scheduled for availability this summer. iPhones have achieved a remarkable level of ubiquity since its launch in mid-2007...it is now available in 80 countries and on 25 carriers. Its success has been built on breakthrough handset design...but even more importantly, an SDK that provides developers with the same APIs that Apple uses internally...thus making it a platform for thousands of mobile applications.
Lest you think that the iPhone is merely a cool gadget for consumers, consider this...business software giant Oracle now has five BPM and CRM applications which run onthe iPhone, including Oracle Business Indicators and Mobile Sales Assistant. And J.D. Power recently ranked the iPhone as #1 in customer satisfaction for business smartphone users. This should be raising alarms at RIM, and in particular at mobile device market leader Nokia.
RIM has continued to increase market share for its Blackberry line as the smartphone pie grows in size, but Nokia is moving in the opposite direction....raising questions about Nokia's smartphone strategy and how Nokia will reverse the current trend. |
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Published :03/24/2009
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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Here is an interesting tale of my experience with two communication powerhouses, AT&T and Charter. Clearly, the investment in Customer Service technology made by organizations such as these can make all the difference between a happy customer and a lost customer. |
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Published :03/30/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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Worldwide SAN FC HBAs revenues dipped three percent in 2008 as revenues reached $834.9 million. |
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Published :04/08/2009
| Author :Ken Landoline |
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After attending VoiceCon in Orlando this week one thing is more apparent than ever – telephony software is winning the battle of mindshare over hardware alternatives. While this has been true for a while, what is new is that current economic conditions are further fueling the case for software in terms of practicality at the knowledge worker desktop, more stringent return on investment analyses and distribution channel economics. One old idea and another brand new one make this case.
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Published :04/04/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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QLogic announced immediate availability of its 8100 Series PCI-Express converged network adapters. |
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Published :04/17/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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While Brocade was the last major storage area networking vendor to announce its entrance into the Fibre Channel over Ethernet market last week, the announcement positioned its entry as a high performance end-to-end solutions provider for the data center. |
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Published :04/20/2009
| Author :Charlotte Dunlap |
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A sea change is occurring in the way managed security services are offered, following the consolidation of the industry in recent years. Some pure-play managed security service providers (MSSP) still operate thriving businesses, but now the big guys have entered the space, including network service providers and traditional security management players. |
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Published :04/24/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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QLogic’s first announced win with HP for its 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Mezzanine card was a big one yesterday in that HP reports that its blade server revenue market share for Q4 08 was 54.8%. That provides QLogic a good headstart in providing a solution for HP customers who can now can now purchase QLogic’s 8 Gbps FC Mezzanine adapter for HP’s BladeSystem
c-Class servers, a key component of HP’s converged infrastructure platform for data centers known as Matrix. |
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Published :04/27/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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Today Brocade announced that IBM will rebrand and sell Brocade’s enterprise IP networking portfolio, a move that will strengthen both Brocade and IBM as they compete for market share in the increasingly competitive data center infrastructure space. For Brocade, IBM provides an OEM channel for distribution of its existing and future IP networking switches . With IBM’s Q1 09 server revenues reaching an estimated $2.1 billion (Q1 09 IBM earnings presentation), the opportunity for Brocade is big. |
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