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Cisco jumps on "consumerisation" bandwagon with collaboration products

Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their interfaces a uniform, consistent design in order to make them easier to use and more effective at helping employees work with each other.
AT&T to launch unified communication services

US telecoms company AT&T will launch new cloud-based unified communications services on Thursday, giving businesses the ability to integrate chat, email, voice over IP calls, audio and video conferencing over desktops and many mobile devices.
Thames Water deploys VDI from Molten Technologies

Utility company Thames Water is trialling a virtual desktop infrastructure using Molten Technologies' desktops-as-a-service (DaaS) platform.
Skype ends integration with Asterisk open source PBX

Skype has decided not to renew an agreement that allows open source telephony system Asterisk to be integrated with the service using software developed with Digium.
Alcatel-Lucent to sell enterprise business, report claims

Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly shopping around its enterprise switching, IP telephony and contact centre businesses in an effort to boost its financial performance by focusing on core telecom markets.
Cisco debuts C series Catalyst switches for smaller deployments

Cisco this week is rolling out two lines of Catalyst Ethernet switches in compact form factors intended for deployment in workgroups closer to users vs. wiring closets.
Hylas-1 broadband Internet satellite launched

A satellite that promises to bring broadband Internet to several areas of Europe was successfully launched late Friday.
ShoreTel acquisition expands mobile capability

ShoreTel's acquisition of Agito is set to bring a new range of mobile comms offerings to enterprises
Is Cisco making a play for Skype?

Cisco is reportedly looking to buy Skype before the Internet phone provider goes public. TechCrunch reported that Cisco made an offer for Skype, according to "reliable sources".
Avaya takes on Microsoft, Cisco

Avaya is poised to take over unified communications, but Cisco and Microsoft stand in the way.

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Where is the point of demarcation with cloud services?

The point of demarcation is important to service providers as it limits their exposure and risk, thus limiting their scope of responsibility and costs, but the growing popularity of cloud computing and hosted communications services promises to dramatically change the picture - perhaps most dramatically in the wiring closet.
Managing networks is still about problem solving

Technologies come and go, but managing networks is still about problem solving in a changing world, as these IT executives can attest.
Cisco ready to take on data centres

Cisco has dominated the newtorking market but it's now casting envious eyes on the data centre in a bid to become a dominant player there, treading on the toes of some of its partners in the process. How will the company shape up in this new arena?
Skype wants to do business

The free-VoIP giant recasts itself as "unified communications made simple" - but how much is it willing to compromise in order to go business-friendly?
Tracking the truth of unified communications

We talk IP comms and email vacations with Shoretel MD Mark Swendsen.
The benefits of 802.11s wireless mesh nets

There's lots of reasons to use mesh, and a practical standard is on its way.
Confused? That's how they want you...

Network vendors and operators need to be more honest, and stop trying to blind us with science, argues Interoute CTO Matthew Finnie.
Notes from IP'07

More of the exhibitors at last week's London networking fest speak.
Are unified communications here at last?

So far, IP communications that follow users across voice, IM, email and other media have benefitted a narrow group. That may be about to change.

How-tos

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Case Study: A tailor-made VoIP system

Case Study: College converges fixed and mobile phones

Case Study: Eurodata unifies its comms

Cutting the costs of VoIP

Case Study: A network-upgrade horror story, part 1: laying the plans

Case Study: University of Westminster upgrades its WAN

When complexity strikes

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An Open Approach to Advanced Messaging

An open approach to IP telephony applications, running alongside your TDM and IP PBXs, has the power to change how your business communicates. It is these ?next-generation? open applications, and not the phones or the PBX, which will deliver the business value that converged networks promise. New functionality under the umbrella of Unified Communications allows users to work with voice messages as easily as email and to work remotely as easily as locally. Speech interfaces can save time and mask complexity. This white paper explores how as you deploy your VoIP implementation, these new end-user communication capabilities make your organisation more productive, more responsive, and ultimately more competitive.
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An Open Approach to Advanced Messaging

An open approach to IP telephony applications, running alongside your TDM and IP PBXs, has the power to change how your business communicates. It is these "next-generation" open applications, and not the phones or the PBX, which will deliver the business value that converged networks promise. New functionality under the umbrella of Unified Communications allows users to work with voice messages as easily as email and to work remotely as easily as locally. Speech interfaces can save time and mask complexity. This white paper explores how as you deploy your VoIP implementation, these new end-user communication capabilities make your organisation more productive, more responsive, and ultimately more competitive.
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Plug and Play: Managed IP Telephony

After years of hype, IP telephony has made the shift from an emerging technology to a viable business solution. IP telephony is gaining accelerated business adoption because it provides measurable cost savings, simplifies the delivery and management of communications, and facilitates convergence for more flexible business practices.
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Ensuring IP Telephony Performance Through Remote Monitoring

The advantages of IP Telephony are well-known, among them network consolidation, centralized voice administration, longdistance toll savings and unified applications. If your company is one of the growing number of IP Telephony adopters, it is also important to consider the day-to-day challenges for maintaining the service level and performance of this business-critical technology.
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Laying The Groundwork For IP Telephony

You?ve studied the promising ROI?s for IP Telephony and researched vendor solutions that appear to fit your company?s needs. If you?ve done your homework, you also know that merging voice and data networks into one integrated network is a complex undertaking that requires careful analysis of existing infrastructure.
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