Speakeasy CEO talks VoIP success; Cisco unveils next Internet core router

	Cisco unveils next Internet core router | Salesmanship helps Pepsi bottler win over users to unified communications
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	Speakeasy CEO talks VoIP success We had the chance recently to speak with Bruce A. Chatterley who has been president and CEO at Speakeasy since 2003. Originally founded as an Internet café, the company has doubled in size and now offers a portfolio of broadband services and hosted VoIP targeted to the small business market. Best Buy purchased Speakeasy in 2007. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NEC How did The Peninsula Shanghai improve their guest services? They partnered with NEC. Peninsula wanted to create a fully converged voice and data wireless LAN throughout the hotel to respond to guests requests instantly. See how NEC, a leading provider of IT and network solutions and services, helped Peninsula deal with this challenge in this case study. Click to continue In this Issue Cisco unveils next Internet core router Salesmanship helps Pepsi bottler win over users to unified communications Intel sees 2012 deployment for mobile WiMax Release 2 WHITE PAPER: HP WAN Design – Don't Buy More than You Need This Gartner research note examines the methodology organizations should employ when designing a WAN. It offers advice on how to ensure that important applications are networked with sufficient performance and that there is not an "overspend" on less important applications and provides guidance on meeting unique network needs. Read Now. Cisco unveils next Internet core router Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint SIP Addresses Unified Communications Deployment This white paper gives strategic guidelines for deploying UC. Read why SIP matters. Read More Salesmanship helps Pepsi bottler win over users to unified communications Unified communications technologies haven't caught on as expected, and even though IT managers report some solid productivity benefits, rolling out such new technologies can take some salesmanship at the IT level with end users. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM NWW Develop Effective user Management With IBM, organizations can develop comprehensive solutions to help gain visibility into business continuity risks, achieve control over utilization of sensitive business assets and automate a variety of processes for managing access to critical assets and data. Read more Intel sees 2012 deployment for mobile WiMax Release 2 Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed starting in 2012, an executive said Tuesday. Read More
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