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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 :05/26/2009
| Author :Sam Masud |
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I was somewhat taken aback to hear one analyst firm describe 100-Gbps wavelengths as the “single most anticipated” network technology. |
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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 :07/21/2009
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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Avaya is bidding to acquire Nortel Enterprise - the new company would be the biggest & largest enterprise Voice Company, doubling Avaya’s worldwide installed base of enterprise phone systems. |
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Published :06/17/2009
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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Sliding business activity and tight financial markets that led to the economic decline in 2008 continue to affect business in Q1 2009, and the enterprise voice equipment market was not immune to these factors and trends. |
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Published :06/25/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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Katie Trippet of Synergy Research Group on Brocade - Interop |
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Published :03/19/2009
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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When I founded Synergy, we started with one market research service. It was the late 90’s and it tracked a technology that was getting little respect from the established voice industry -Voice over IP (VoIP). When we began segmenting the market, many said it would be impossible to count this nascent market and they suggested we not waste our time trying to publish research on such a nebulous and overly ambitious technology. Although that was 10 years ago, in my mind it seems like yesterday. So when I heard the same reservations and objections voiced about our quest to quantify unified communication (UC), I was not surprised. After a rigorous 6-month process, I believe we have “cracked” the code and have developed a sound way to measure this emerging market. |
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Published :07/17/2009
| Author :Ken Landoline |
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This week in two distinct but likely coordinated strategic moves, IBM has made it clear that the small and medium business (SMB) marketplace is a significant and important target for its unified communications offerings... |
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Published :01/15/2010
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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The current Q3 2009 report depicts a quarterly revenue stream of $981 million which represents a decent increase over Q2 with a 6.78% increase of the marketplace in sequential quarters. The slow economy had caught up to the previously healthy and growing collaborative applications industry as Q4 08 and Q1 09’s revenues slid. |
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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 :04/20/2009
| 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 :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 :02/25/2009
| Author :Ken Landoline |
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This year, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) celebrates the 25th anniversary of its founding. The company had its start in 1984 when a group of Stanford University computer scientists pursued their interest in initiating and leading networking technology developments based on Internet Protocol (IP). Today, the company employs approximately 67,000 employees worldwide and continues to lead innovation in its core networking areas of routing and switching as well as in other related areas of technology: data centers, mobility, security, storage, telepresence, unified communications (UC) and video applications. |
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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 :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 :02/25/2009
| Author :Ken Landoline |
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Avaya is a globally recognized provider of IP telephony systems, communications software and services for business customers, spanning the range from small to large enterprises. The corporation, headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, has annual revenues in excess of $5 billion. Avaya is a spin-off of Lucent Technologies and a descendant of the original AT&T corporate family and the Bell System that was dissolved by court order in early 1984. Although Avaya was publicly held at inception in 2000, the company was privatized in late 2007 when it was taken over by the equity firms of Silver Lake and TPG Capital. Today, the company’s 18,000 employees are spread across three business units: Unified Communications Solutions, Contact Center Solutions and Integrated Office Communications (SMB focus), and Avaya Labs, which functions as the corporation’s research and development unit. Effective January of 2009 Kevin Kennedy, a former executive with Cisco who was previously affiliated with AT&T/Bell Labs, has held the position of president and CEO. |
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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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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 :02/27/2009
| Author :Ken Landoline |
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Microsoft has introduced Office Communications Server 2007, Release 2 (OCS 2007-R2), an update of the company’s unified communications (UC) platform offer propelling Microsoft one step closer to offering voice software designed to compete with more traditional office voice switching and UC platforms. |
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Published :03/16/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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Cisco's entry today into the server market with its Unified Computing System brings it one step closer to realizing its Data Center 3.0 vision. Some may be hesitant, however, to leave server vendors like HP and IBM who have surrounded their customers with knowledgeable local and remote support resources for years, and who have developed knowledge databases that provide quick response in times of a hot site. |
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