Vidyo offers free videoconferencing interconnection service

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	Vidyo offers free videoconferencing interconnection service Vidyo has announced it will offer a free interconnectivity service to support multi-vendor, business-quality videoconferencing for multi-party or point-to-point meetings. The new service is called "VidyoWay" and it will connect room systems like those provided by Cisco/Tandberg, Polycom and LifeSize to Microsoft Lync clients, mobile devices and telephones. Read More WHITE PAPER: EVault (formerly i365) The Dollars and Sense of Online Backup Read this paper to see how using online backup can answer these challenges by leveraging cloud-based technology to securely protect your company against data loss. Read Now! In this Issue Hosted IP telephony maturing for mainstream enterprise adoption Microsoft mum on whether it can tap Skype phone calls How BT, Cisco, and VOSS plan to upkeep UC&C at the London Olympics Many Cisco carrier customers planning SDNs WSJ should correct that column so readers know the truth Microsoft needs to buy a vowel Eye candy for IT: 25 award-winning designs WEBCAST: Dell VMware Virtualizing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Disaster recovery is a form of insurance to protect your IT assets when a disaster strikes. Learn how to protect your business in this insightful webinar. View Now! Hosted IP telephony maturing for mainstream enterprise adoption IP telephony adoption has progressed slowly for more than a decade, but with hosted voice vendors now offering modular consumption models and shifting away from simply viewing hosted voice as a way to sell broader unified communications (UC) solutions, organizations can now pursue IP telephony services as a highly scalable stand-alone service. Read More Microsoft mum on whether it can tap Skype phone calls Microsoft may or may not have the ability to tap Skype phone calls, but the company just won't say, and it's not clear why. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Tips to Precisely Measure Packet Loss Packet loss is increasingly problematic for companies looking to lower DR costs by performing data replication over the WAN. This paper discusses the inaccuracies of measuring packet loss with ICMP (i.e. ping method) and explains how to mitigate this risk with proper packet loss measuring tools. Learn more. How BT, Cisco, and VOSS plan to upkeep UC&C at the London Olympics The summer Olympics in London kick off with the opening ceremonies this Friday, and this year's games will be different than the Beijing Games for a number of reasons. Back in 2008, smartphones were a rarity, "iPad" wasn't a word heard outside of Apple, and Facebook was something just a few college kids used. This year's Olympics is expected to attract about 4 million spectators, more than... Read More Many Cisco carrier customers planning SDNs A majority of service providers worldwide are considering or planning purchases of software-defined networking (SDN) technologies to simplify network provisioning, and create services and virtual networks (see graphic below). That's the finding of Infonetics Research, which just released a new survey on carriers and their SDN, 40/400G and MPLS control plane strategies. Read More WEBCAST: SAP Make Every Rep a Sales Hero with SAP Sales OnDemand: Webcast This Webcast introduces the business challenges facing sales today, and provides an overview and demonstration of how SAP Sales OnDemand can be used to address those challenges. Learn More WSJ should correct that column so readers know the truth A Media Matters headline yesterday asked: "What will it take for the WSJ to correct Crovitz's Internet column?" Read More Microsoft needs to buy a vowel I can sympathize because I've committed my fair share of typos over the years. Never this large, though. Read More Eye candy for IT: 25 award-winning designs Stellar industrial design distinguishes 25 red dot award-winning IT and communications products Read More
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