A Brief History of UC&C, Part One: VoIP and the Softswitch

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	A Brief History of UC&C, Part One: VoIP and the Softswitch For all of our readers who have read this newsletter faithfully over the last decade, we hope you can enjoy the next few editions as a trip down memory lane. And for those who are telecom neophytes, we hope you will enjoy learning a bit about the evolutionary factors we'll highlight. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Exceptional Application Experience To improve and ensure the performance and availability of business-critical web applications, organizations need to be able to see and understand the actual user experience. This paper examines the five essentials of application performance monitoring. Learn More In this Issue Defcon: VoIP makes a good platform for controlling botnets Vonage enhances mobility TVOICE Video #4 Google's VP8 Getting Help From An Unlikely Source 16 milestones of a million, billion or more ... WEBCAST: CA Technologies Advanced Authentication Methods: Software vs Hardware Hardware tokens were a popular method of strong authentication in past years but the cumbersome provisioning and distribution tasks, high support requirements and replacement costs have limited their growth. Learn More Defcon: VoIP makes a good platform for controlling botnets Botnets and their masters can communicate with each other by calling into the same VoIP conference call and swapping data using touch tones, researchers demonstrated at Defcon. Read More WEBCAST: GFI Software GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform. View now Vonage enhances mobility Vonage has been working to incorporate and extend mobility, allowing customers to use Vonage's calling plans from their mobile phones with a new service called "Extensions." In a related move, Vonage has launched "Time to Call" as an iPhones app. Vonage also recently partnered with TracFone Wireless to offer home phone service to TracFone's prepaid mobile customer base. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya Why Corporations Need to Automate IT Systems Management In today's competitive business environment, corporations across all industries are looking to provide quality products and services while at the same time cutting costs, saving energy and doing more with less. Automated IT systems management is the ultimate facilitator for achieving these goals…and more. Read now TVOICE Video #4 One of the most common troubleshooting issues when working with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) is call privileges, which is usually configured with partitions and calling search spaces. This video takes a look at a call privileges troubleshooting issue. Read More Google's VP8 Getting Help From An Unlikely Source Google received support this week for its embattled WebM video format from an unlikely source. Skype announced that it has adopted VP8 the codec in WebM as its default solution for video conferencing for both one on one and group video calls. Of course with Skype now serving their corporate overloads in Redmond, this means that Microsoft is at least tacitly endorsing and supporting the format. I... Read More 16 milestones of a million, billion or more ... Quantitative milestones have been a marketing staple since long before McDonald's began counting burgers. So when I saw recently that Huffington Post was boasting of having hosted its 100 millionth comment, I did a little searching to see how many of these pronouncements I could find ... over just the past month. Here's a slideshow featuring the more notable ones with any kind of tech connection. Read... Read More
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