Anti-social networking; State of VoIP/Video Management

State of VoIP/Video Management; Asian undersea cable disruption slows Internet access Wide Area Networking Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by HP - NWW IDC: Realizing the Benefits of Deduplication Many organizations are grappling with rapidly growing storage requirements. IDC has found that those organizations are experiencing 50% growth in data, adding as much as 4TB of data each year. Spotlight Story Anti-social networking As an extension of our discussion of social networking, I feel compelled to mention the antisocial aspects that sometime accompany networking communications. In social networks, in which there is some degree of personal relationship, albeit perhaps not face-to-face, there is a relatively high level of civility. In fact, there is a level of appropriate discourse that tends to rather polite, just as there would be in person because people are naturally nice to each other and/or they fear being punched in the face. Read full story Related News: State of VoIP/Video Management EMA recently conducted a survey of IT practitioners, looking to understand current practices for managing real-time IP communications like VoIP and IP Video Conferencing technologies such as telepresence. Remember why these are so interesting – they require protected/prioritized bandwidth and are latency-intolerant, and thus often drive changes in your network architecture plus your planning and... Asian undersea cable disruption slows Internet access A segment of the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea cable network between China and Taiwan suffered a serious cable fault on Wednesday, causing Internet traffic to be rerouted onto other undersea cables and slowing Internet access for some users in Southeast Asia. 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