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Published :08/23/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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As the personal computer morphs from the desktop to the laptop to the hand-held, it’s natural that a company like Dell would want to get into the mobile handset game. The smartphone market may be the growth engine for handset manufacturers, but there are only so many slices in the pie. |
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Published :08/23/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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At a recent USENIX Security Symposium, the leader of (Google) Android security, Rich Cannings, said that “The smartphone OS will become a major security target.” Rich is correct: The number of smartphones is on the rise, and these devices are capable of holding lots of sensitive personal and business data. |
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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 :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 :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 :05/04/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Some major players in the mobile industry released Q1-09 financials. |
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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 :04/20/2009
| 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 :04/17/2009
| 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 :04/12/2009
| 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 :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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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 :04/06/2009
| 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 :04/04/2009
| 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 :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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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 :03/22/2009
| 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 :03/19/2009
| 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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