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	Qwest announces UC service Qwest Communications has introduced a hosted unified communications service designed to help enterprises, governmental agencies and educational institutions integrate legacy phone networks with IP-based data networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Top Considerations in Choosing a VoIP Provider When SMBs are looking for new ways to reduce telecom costs, why are more of them turning to voice over IP? Get best practices advice for transitioning first to VoIP, and then fully converged services. Read More In this Issue Cisco UC 8: Service Advertisement Framework and Call Control Discovery VoIP service provider Ooma joins Linux patent protection club iPhone OS 4.0: A Features Report Card WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Understand the Network Impact of 802.11n As performance and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission- critical applications. This paper outlines the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n. Read More! Cisco UC 8: Service Advertisement Framework and Call Control Discovery In this blog series, I'll discuss a new feature in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 8.0. One of the biggest cosmetic changes in the Cisco Unified Communication Manager Administration webpage (/ccmadmin) is the removal of the voicemail menu. An "Advanced Features" menu now appears where the voicemail menu used to be. The voicemail menu has now become a sub-menu under the advanced... 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 VoIP service provider Ooma joins Linux patent protection club An organization created to protect Linux vendors from patent trolls has scored a new member, consumer VoIP device provider Ooma. Ooma is the second new company in as many months to join the the Open Invention Network (OIN). In March, another VoIP vendor, Guest-tek joined. Read More VIRTUAL EVENT: CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld & Network World Security in a Virtual World Visit us at this virtual conference on today's top security concerns, including unique security challenges of enterprise social media, mainstreaming of virtualization / cloud computing, and data protection & encryption. Wednesday April 28, 2010 - 9:00am ET – 6:30pm ET Just for attending, you will be eligible to win a Kindle Wireless Reading Device! Register Today! iPhone OS 4.0: A Features Report Card Apple introduced the latest iteration of its iPhone operating system on Thursday, which will bring more than 100 new features for users. Apple didn't go into great detail about all the new features of iPhone OS 4.0, but the company did discuss some of the most prominent ones, including multitasking, new gaming features, an advertising platform, application folders, unified e-mail inbox, iBooks e-reading software, and some improvements to the iPhone's enterprise features. Read More
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