Polycom to acquire HP telepresence business

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	Polycom to acquire HP telepresence business Polycom and HP have announced a broad strategic alliance: Polycom will acquire HP's visual collaboration business and the two companies will partner for telepresence and video unified communications solutions. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Polycom Win a 360º unified conference station It's a chance to win the Polycom® CX5000, featuring a 360 degree panoramic view. Easily add group video collaboration to Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Bring a whole new perspective to your meetings. Enter the sweepstakes today! In this Issue Business video: Get ready for the surge World IPv6 Day: Status report and how to test your connection IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day Industry upbeat about IPv6 Day despite low traffic volume WHITE PAPER: Avaya Single Vendor Network: Myth or Reality Gartner conducted an analysis of hundreds of clients and found that introducing a second vendor into the network infrastructure has a significant impact on operational costs Read Now Business video: Get ready for the surge Video traffic is expected to grow from 50% of all Internet traffic today to 90% by 2013. In volume that will be equal to transmitting the equivalent of 10 billion DVDs across the network every month. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive SLA Compliance: Wireless Fidelity Achieved Aerohive delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. Read now! World IPv6 Day: Status report and how to test your connection Today is the World IPv6 Day. I've collected a few resources for you to keep track including the Internet Society's tool to test your Internet connection, and graphics and dashboards that provide traffic reports. Interesting stuff. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya A Look at What Midsize and Large Companies Really Spend Nemertes has tracked how much companies spend on their IP-telephony deployments within the LAN and VOIP across the WAN. This paper reviews the latest deployment trends and costs associated with VOIP, and provides capital and operational cost details for midsize and enterprise implementations from four vendors. Learn More IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day A surge of IPv6-based Web traffic began flowing over the Internet last night when World IPv6 Day began, according to data gathered by Arbor Networks. Read More Industry upbeat about IPv6 Day despite low traffic volume It's been billed by its organizers as the most important day for the future of the Internet, but so far World IPv6 Day has probably served to confirm what the industry already knows about the 128-bit protocol on which the 21st century digital society will be built -- there is not a lot of it about. Read More
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