Communications News articles from March 2006

Communications News archives from March 2006

Security has clout.(Viewpoint)(Survey)
March 1, 2006... Maybe it is just in how you ask the questions. Two recent surveys of IT managers and IT security managers suggest that one of these groups is gaining clout within boardrooms, while the other is not as well connected at the executive staff...

Winter Olympics goes for VoIP gold.(Trends)
March 1, 2006... When the Torino Olympic Winter Games got underway last month, NBC Olympics was using an IP telephony solution to provide communication capabilities linking the International Broadcast Center and NBC's field shop with sports venues in Torino,...

Schools go cat 6.(SHORT TAKES)(Clark County Shool District)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The Clark County School District in Las Vegas, one of the largest school districts in the United States, has selected ADC'sTrueNet Structured Cabling System for its next-generation, wide-area network to provide student access to the Internet...

Total protection.(SHORT TAKES)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... A.T. Kearney, one of the world's largest management consulting firms, is leveraging Check Point Software Technology's total access protection (TAP) strategy to defend all of its network-connected PCs and ensure endpoints are safeguarded. "Our...

Events.(Trends)
March 1, 2006... CTIA Wireless, April 5-7, Las Vegas, brings in the traditional wireless audience of network providers, carriers and manufacturers, as well as enterprise end-users. www.ctiawireless.com InfoSecWodd Conference and Expo, April 3-5, Orlando,...

Security measures lacking.(Trends)(Survey)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Businesses are failing to respond to the increased threat posed by mobile devices being used outside the corporate network and are continually suffering security breaches as a result. The breaches are often a result of the lack of corporate...

VoWLAN use to triple.(Trends)
March 1, 2006... The adoption of voice-over-wireless LAN solutions is expected to triple in the next two years, from 10% now to 31% in 2007, driven by the growing availability of wireless voice-over-IP (VoIP) handsets and voice-enabling wireless infrastructure....

Wireless education.(SHORT TAKES)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Aurora Public Schools (APS), the sixth-largest school district in Colorado, has deployed Orthogon Systems' OS-Gemini and OS-Spectra Ethernet point-to-point bridges to increase bandwidth and establish a next-generation network that will be able...

Students shielded.(SHORT TAKES)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The Palm Beach (Calif.) School District, the 10th-largest school district in the nation, is widely recognized for its innovative use of the Internet, including Web-based in-class learning, distance learning from home and online test...

IT coordination lacking.(Trends)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... In its 2005 study on IT priorities, network and application performance management vendor NetScout Systems found that a high number of IT managers do not coordinate their IT initiatives across the IT organization. According to the survey of...

Take a bow, Larry.(Trends)(chairman of SecurePipe, Lawrence Levine film debut in thriller Firewall)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The new tension-packed thriller, "Firewall," starring Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen and Paul Bettany, had an unusual actor working alongside them. Lawrence Levine, cofounder and chairman of SecurePipe, not only served as technical advisor to...

Publications.(GMPLS Architecture and Applications)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... GMPLS Architecture and Applications focuses on up-to-date information for putting the growing set of GMPLS-supported services to work and managing them effectively. The text provides a practical look at protocols for signaling, routing link and...

Brad's new network: CIO Brad Brown of Erlanger Health System decided on a converged solution to tie together staff at locations in four states.(Cover story)
March 1, 2006... Imagine a world where doctors and hospital staff can log into the core network from any remote location over a secure socket layer (SSL) or virtual private network (VPN) connection and have full access to the information they need to deliver...

Network management is not enough: gain insight into the end-user perspective with voice application-management tools.(Network Performance)
March 1, 2006... Do you recognize this crisis scenario? One of your critical customer-facing applications has failed, and you are the last to know. Your network monitors are green, indicating that your network and servers are up, yet your agents are being...

Application performance insight.(Network Performance Products)
March 1, 2006... The NP-2000 NetSensory Professional Appliance offers enterprise-level, real-time network and application performance visibility. The NP-2000 Professional delivers more than 60 real-time metrics in their business context, giving IT staff a...

Wireless LAN emulation.(Network Performance Products)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The WaveTest Traffic Generator/Analyzer is a wireless LAN and Ethernet performance test platform, capable of stress testing a complete WLAN network, including access points and WLAN switches. Designed for enterprise users that want to make the...

Remote management to the rescue: Fayetteville Public Library uses IT systems-management tool to increase efficiency.(Network Performance)
March 1, 2006... The Fayetteville Public Library in Arkansas has come a long way from its early days. Founded in 1916 in the basement of the county courthouse, the library now occupies four floors and 88,000 square feet in a new, expanded, state-of-the-art...

Tool set improves performance.(Network Performance)
March 1, 2006... End-to-end performance monitoring enables network engineers to view performance as the user experiences it across the entire network infrastructure, providing end-user application response time and problem isolation to the network, server or...

Voice management answers the call: university uses reporting solution to keep track of its voice network performance-management statistics.(Special Focus: Voice Networks)
March 1, 2006... Joan Bonner has been the voice processing coordinator for the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for several years, administering and managing telecommunications applications, and supporting thousands of student and faculty voice mailboxes...

Make VoIP perform as advertised.(Special Focus: Voice Networks)
March 1, 2006... The promise of lower cost has motivated many enterprises to move their voice traffic to the enterprise IP wide area network (WAN). Many have discovered, however, that voice-over-IP (VoIP) quality does not always meet business use standards. In...

SSL VPN secures firm's VoIP network: increasingly mobile workforce requires secure communications for voice and data.(Special Focus: Voice Networks)
March 1, 2006... Like many companies, operations at Washington-based architectural firm Burt Hill have become increasingly mobile. Recently, for example, Burt Hill CEO Peter Moriarty, accompanied by a client, was sitting in the Washington airport on his way to...

Buyers guide.(Special Focus: Voice Networks)(Buyers guide)
March 1, 2006... Companies listed in this Voice Networks Buyers Guide can assist you in selecting the products and services that work best for your organization. AUDIO CONFERENCING PRODUCTS A.T. Products 815-943-3590 www.atproducts.com ...

Mobile satellite communications.(Special Focus: Voice Networks)(SecureComms VoIP service )(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The SecureComms VoIP service is designed to work with Strafes mobile and fixed satellite solutions, allowing customers to leverage the power of IP networking and satellite communications to establish an on-demand, globally secure voice and data...

Hosted VoIP.(Special Focus: Voice Networks)(Voice over Internet Protocol)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Phonetag is a hosted VoIP software solution designed to reduce disruptions caused by phone system outages and put control over telecommunications back into the hands of business owners-without the added expense of new hardware, equipment or...

Reduce risk and complexity.(Special Focus: Voice Networks)(outsourcing models for Internet telephony)
March 1, 2006... In recent years, there has been a growing trend for companies to outsource contact center operations to drive down costs and deliver improved customer service in a 24/7 world. While there has been much less attention paid to outsourcing basic...

Small business IP-PBX.(ShoreTel Small Business Edition)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... ShoreTel Small Business Edition is an integrated package designed to meet the needs of small businesses with up to 50 users at one location. Many of the most basic functions, like adding phones, changing extensions or moving users, can be...

Midsize IP PBX.(Tenor AF)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The Tenor AF switch is designed for eight analog lines in both station-side and trunk-side configurations. The switch supports up to eight simultaneous VoIP calls, features a smaller footprint than the current Tenor AS and offers up to mice as...

Voice messages in e-mail.(Adomo Voice Messaging for Exchange)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Voice Messaging for Exchange is a multivendor, technology-independent solution integrated with Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory. For users, voice messages can be accessed as before from their phone, but can also be reached from their...

Text messages via voice.(Mailcall )(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Mailcall converts text-based e-mails into speech, allowing users to retrieve and read e-mail correspondence and Web page information from any phone, anytime, anywhere. The software is an affordable complement to a PDA for the mobile user. Even...

Customer service comes first: for hospitality firm, an application-rich contact center solution fills the bill.(Managed Services)
March 1, 2006... Bill Peters, vice president of reservation services at Outrigger Enterprises in Hawaii, contends that a high-quality customer service experience and live interaction between customers and agents are essential ingredients to a successful...

Regain visibility and control: managed services can help with application optimization and acceleration.(Managed Services)
March 1, 2006... The need to improve the visibility of network traffic, and the related issue of how to control that traffic, is taking on ever-increasing relevance across all industries. Yet, most CIOs do not have the tools or personnel to determine how much...

Why choose multimode fiber? Total lifecycle costs may be lower and network flexibility greater than with single-mode fiber.(Cabling Infrastructure)
March 1, 2006... The primary factor affecting the design of premises and local area networks is the overall cost of the components. The geometrical properties and fiber core construction of single-mode and multimode fiber differ greatly, such that each fiber...

Which connector is best?(Cabling Infrastructure)
March 1, 2006... Questions have arisen recently on the ability of field-terminated no-epoxy/no-polish (NENP) connectors to support high-data-rate digital systems and analog video systems. These questions have resulted in a number of businesses and campuses...

PoE midspan.(Cabling Infrastructure Products)(Leviton 6-Port PoE Midspan)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The IEEE 802.3af compliant 6-Port PoE Midspan automatically detects PoE-ready devices and supplies 48 volts of DC power over existing Ethernet cabling, eliminating the need for an external power source at end devices. Deploying the PoE Midspan...

10-Gbps FTP cabling.(Cabling Infrastructure Products)(Berk-Tek NetClear GTS Category 6 FTP Cabling System)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The NetClear GTS Category 6 FTP Cabling System features guaranteed support of 10 Giga-bit Ethernet, as identified by the IEEE 802.3an and TIA standards committees. The system guarantees 10GBASE-T support today, with no limitations on channel...

5e patch panels.(Cabling Infrastructure Products)(CommScope Uniprise UNP500 Category 5e Patch Panels)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Uniprise UNP500 Category 5e Patch Panels are 19-inch rack-mounted patch panels designed for quick and repeatable configuration of Category 5e circuits. The panels are available in 18-, 24- and 48-port versions. UN-PCO series patch cord...

Configurable cabinet.(Cabling Infrastructure Products)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The TeraFrame Cabinet System can be personalized to meet specific data center needs, arriving ready to install in five days. Available in three different widths (600 mm, 700 mm and 800 mm), 12 heights and 17 depths, the cabinets offer 516...

Sleek steel raceway.(Cabling Infrastructure Products)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The 4000 Designer Series Steel Raceway is designed for high capacity and enhanced bend-radius control. The crossover feature enables both power receptacles and data activations to be positioned in the same channel or together on the...

Out-of-band CPU management.(Product Spotlight: Remote Monitoring/KVM)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The AdderView CATx IP is a multi-user KVM switching solution that enables local, remote and global control of PCs and servers. The use of 300-MHz differential cross-point switching technology allows the switch to support resolutions of up to...

Remotely access desktops.(Product Spotlight: Remote Monitoring/KVM)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... NetOp On Demand Remote Control is a remote-control solution that provides on-demand access over the Internet without pre-installing software or configuring firewalls. By downloading a small, self-executing program, end-users can receive true...

Control remote KVMs.(Product Spotlight: Remote Monitoring/KVM)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The Model 4855 16-Channel Area Remote Switching Unit is built with a rugged all-aluminum enclosure and remotely controls up to 16 ESL Model 4875 KVM A/B switches. The unit's front panel rotary switch allows simultaneous A/B control of all the...

Multiple input device interfaces.(Product Spotlight: Remote Monitoring/KVM)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The 1U SERVIS FD-1100MT series console drawer consists of a 17", 1,280 x 1,024 high-resolution SXGA TFT color LCD monitor that supports both separate synch and composite sync video signals. For increased functionality, the drawer feature a...

32-port KVM.(Product Spotlight: Remote Monitoring/KVM)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The DSR8035 KVM over IP switch is a high-density appliance for up to eight digital users. The 32-port appliance simplifies cable management by reducing the number of switches needed to manage large quantities of servers. The switch features two...

Remote administration.(Product Spotlight: Remote Monitoring/KVM)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The SecureLinx Management Appliance (SLM) is a centralized control solution that provides administrators secure, remote and consolidated access of nearly any device in the enterprise. SLM integrates out-of-band infrastructure management...

Wireless can be a challenge.(IT Insight)(Brad Brown)(Erlanger Health System)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... Rolling out a wireless network within three large hospital campuses across Chattanooga, Tenn., was no small challenge for Brad Brown, CIO for Erlanger Health System. In an interview with Associate Editor Raymond Peckham, Brown reveals how the...