NEC enhances UC; Toshiba teams with Motorola

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	NEC enhances UC; Toshiba teams with Motorola Capping off our coverage of news and announcements from Orlando at VoiceCon 2010, today we'll highlight separate developments from NEC and Toshiba: NEC released enhancements to its unified communications solutions while Toshiba announced that its Strata CIX system users can now deploy Motorola's Total Enterprise Access and Mobility Voice-over-wireless-LAN solution. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! In this Issue Nortel and Avaya Essentials UK comms regulator wants lower mobile termination rates Goober promises low rates for VoIP app users WHITE PAPER: Dell Prepare for Windows 7 in Three Phases Many organizations are skipping Vista and looking forward to Windows 7. This research provides necessary steps to prepare for Windows 7 and ensure a successful migration with adequate operating system (OS) support. Learn More Now Nortel and Avaya Essentials The full impact of Nortel's bankrupcy may not be measured just yet. Yet the insutry goes on. Avaya in particular is faced with the daunting task of keeping its own customers happy but also transitioning its newly acquired Nortel base. Here's a look at the stories around this major shift. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Top Five Benefits of Video Conferencing From obvious benefits, like reduced travel costs, to a few less apparent advantages, see what Polycom customers, resellers and industry analysts are saying about the power of video conferencing. Read More UK comms regulator wants lower mobile termination rates U.K. communications regulator Ofcom has proposed to reduce mobile termination rates -- the price operators pay to connect calls to other networks. The new rates should result in cheaper phone calls from fixed-line to mobile phones, the regulator said on Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Peace Corp: Creating a worldwide unified network Learn how the Peace Corp made its unified network a reality after selecting and deploying cost-effective WAN optimization gear. One of the key factors was selecting a platform that integrated with its existing network spanning 70 countries. The result is dramatically improved performance and significant cost savings. Learn More Goober promises low rates for VoIP app users The App Store is crammed with apps offering Voice over IP features. But Goober Networks hopes that its latest app can stand out from the crowd by offering competitive rates on local and international VoIP calls. Read More
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