Avaya upgrades IP Office, enhances interoperability with Nortel BCM

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	Avaya upgrades IP Office, enhances interoperability with Nortel BCM Avaya has announced several upgrades to its small and midsize enterprises portfolio including enhancements to the Avaya IP Office; improvements increased interoperability options between the IP Office, Norstar and Nortel BCM; and a newly Avaya branded BCM 6.0 that adds unified communications features. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Load Balancers Are Dead! Get Gartner's take on: * Which vendors are leading the ADC market * Key recommendations on what you should do today * How to find a feature-rich ADC View the Gartner report, compliments of F5 Networks! Read now! In this Issue Microsoft Lync: What you need to know IPv6: What and why? Mobile industry plans to light up Africa RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ShoreTel ShoreTel's #1 rated IP phone system simply redefines TCO With complexity designed right out of ShoreTel's UC solution, out go costly support and service and in comes the lowest TCO in the market. With ShoreTel's unique power and ease, put your resources back into your business and tap into the most collaborative and scalable IP phone system – voted #1 seven years running by IT pros in Nemertes Research . Click to continue Microsoft Lync: What you need to know Microsoft this week will launch Lync, the latest version of its unified communications and collaboration platform that, like competitive products, promises to change the way businesses do business by integrating a range of existing communications and collaboration technologies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint Start Deploying UC Immediately Yankee Group analyzes the Unified Communications market and makes recommendations for businesses looking to accelerate a UC deployment. Read More IPv6: What and why? Some of the most popular posts and discussions at Webtorials continue to revolve around IPv6. In particular, we feel as if enterprises are struggling to decide exactly what their implementation strategies should be and how they can best implement that strategy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Native Storage Networking Architecture Quantum's iLayer software has historically provided an advanced SAN connectivity feature set via a Fibre Channel I/O Blade, sold and positioned as storage networking drives. Read More Mobile industry plans to light up Africa The mobile industry has joined forces with the World Bank's Lighting Africa initiative to help share excess power from off-grid base stations with people living nearby, industry organization GSM Association (GSMA) announced on Wednesday. Read More
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