Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Enterasys package secures VoIP systems; Skype offers more details of 'perfect storm' outage

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Convergence & VoIP News Alert




Network World's Convergence & VoIP News Alert, 08/22/07

Enterasys package secures VoIP systems, 08/20/07: Enterasys Networks this week unveiled a security system for enterprise VoIP networks called Enterasys Secure Open Convergence. The system comprises Enterasys security software applications and the company’s switching, routing and wireless infrastructure products.

Skype offers more details of 'perfect storm' outage, 08/21/07: The situation that prevented millions of people from accessing Skype's Internet telephony service late last week was a "perfect storm" and should not reoccur, the company said Tuesday.

EMC unveils VoIP monitoring platform, 08/20/07: EMC has launched software to allow companies to better control their IP telephony.

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Skype users don't buy outage explanation, 08/20/07: Ebay's explanation for last week's failure of its Skype communication service has left many users still wondering what caused the worst outage in Skype's five-year history.

Skype: Network felled by Windows Update, 08/20/07: The two-day outage last week of Skype peer-to-peer VoIP services was triggered when users of the software installed Microsoft patches and rebooted their computers, which also serve as nodes in Skype’s network.

Sore at Skype?, 08/21/07: As you’ve probably read ad nauseam, Skype had a major outage affecting users for about two days last week. Complaints are soaring across bulletin boards and blogs on the Web about the outage, which Skype says was caused by the high volume of logins when computers automatically rebooted after installing updates from Microsoft.

Report: Avaya taking IP phone share from Cisco: Cisco is losing its grip of the Web phone market, while Avaya expanded its lead.

Skype resumes service, 08/20/07: Skype announced late Friday that all users could now again log on to the VoIP service, marking the end of an outage that affected millions and lasted more than 48 hours.

Skype outage continues, business users affected, 08/17/07: Almost 36 hours after a software problem caused widespread outages in eBay's Skype service, engineers continue to work to fully restore this extremely popular Internet telephony and instant messaging service, while many business users deal with work disruptions.

Tricks for Microsoft Office Communications Server: “Enterprise voice number normalization rules are probably the trickiest part of setting up OCS with voice integration,” blogs Rand Morimoto. But he’s got a technique to make it easy.

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Senior Editor Tim Greene covers VoIP carrier issues for Network World.



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