Acme Packet announces offerings to accelerate Microsoft Lync deployments

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	Acme Packet announces offerings to accelerate Microsoft Lync deployments Acme Packet has announced new offers intended to accelerate Microsoft Lync deployments for customers who want to take advantage of Lync's enterprise voice capabilities. The offers target customers who need combined Session Border Control (SBC), session management, and trunk-side application server functions. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Virtualize Your ADI: Are You Ready to Unbox? Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT Traditional application delivery controller (ADC) architectures focus on load balancing and lack the efficiency required in today's IT environment. Join Kavitha Mariappan, Product Marketing Director at Riverbed Technology, to discuss the benefits of an updated ADC. Learn more. In this Issue Connections: Looking to the future of business communications Chevrolet Volt electric car streams movies, checks home on 4G connection CLEAR CHOICE TEST: 6 free email servers for small businesses 20 awesome cloud services you've never heard of WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Why Effective WAN Throughput is So Poor Upgrading bandwidth does not help improve effective throughput when transferring large amounts of data over a high-capacity WAN. This NetForecast report details the problem's culprits and discusses the effectiveness of TCP acceleration, FEC, packet order correction, and WAN optimization. Learn more. Connections: Looking to the future of business communications Enterprise communications is being significantly influenced by a series of trends -- many of which originate from the consumer market, particularly from Generation Y -- that are changing the way organizations do business. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Three Phases to Improve Application Delivery Teams Most organizations struggling with application performance have not developed the processes and organization that can maximize the benefits of their application delivery solutions. In this report, Gartner outlines three phases to help IT organizations improve their structure to deliver better application performance. Learn More! Chevrolet Volt electric car streams movies, checks home on 4G connection Chevrolet Volt electric car streams movies, checks home on 4G connection General Motors has added a 4G data connection to a Volt research vehicle that lets passengers Skype video chat from the road among other tasks. Follow Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb From: networkworld Views: 32 1 ratings Time: 02:10 More in Science & Technology Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware Cloud Control: Meet the Challenges Head-On Looking for the "On" switch for your cloud computing deployment? Right. While Cloud Computing is the gateway to business flexibility and agility, there's no "On" switch. There's no "right" way. The benefits of cloud hold tremendous promise, and challenges abound. Learn More CLEAR CHOICE TEST: 6 free email servers for small businesses hMailServer (Windows only) wins our test; Citadel (Linux only) comes in a close second Read More 20 awesome cloud services you've never heard of Web services are quickly replacing desktop programs for routine tasks such as image editing, spreadsheet creation and more. Here are 20 such services that we think are worth your time. Read More
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