Paula Musich

ORLANDO, Fla.-Polycom on March 17 will join the growing chorus of vendors integrating with Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007 with new high-definition video and audio conferencing links to OCS. Polycom high-definition audio and video as well as Telepresence endpoints and infrastructure will integrate with OCS 2007 to allow end uses to easily make voice and […]

Avaya on March 17 will outline its most comprehensive set of unified communications products and services to date when it introduces at VoiceCon in Orlando, Fla., a new presence server, a multiprotocol UC client, a series of UC consulting services and six vertical UC systems aimed at specific types of workers. Avaya’s new Intelligent Presence […]

Extreme Networks jumped out ahead of demand for VOIP-specific security on March 17 when it added new voice over IP protections in its Sentriant security appliances. Although the majority of issues faced by enterprises deploying VOIP are focused on traditional threats to data network such as denial-of-service attacks or worm outbreaks, Extreme Networks created a […]

Mitel Networks and Sun Microsystems at VoiceCon on March 17 will strengthen their OEM commitment when they launch a new unified communications client on the Sun Ray thin client. One week after launching the first implementation of its Communications Director call control software on Sun Linux-based servers, Mitel added the Sun Ray Unified IP Client […]

With CBS Sports heavily promoting its offer to stream all 63 of the March Madness college basketball games for free across the Internet, the potential for lost productivity and business is enormous for many enterprises. With the first round games slated to begin on March 20, network administrators across the country should be gearing up […]

NEC Unified Solutions, as part of its wide-ranging unified communications rollout on March 12, zeroed in on small and midsize businesses. At the heart of its new SMB offerings is a pair of new IP PBXes or communications servers that can operate in single-server mode or be networked to allow SMBs to scale their deployments. […]

NEC Unified Solutions jumped on the unified communications bandwagon on March 12 with the introduction of a wide-ranging product update focused on the roles users have within their businesses. The new products, which NEC introduced in advance of VoiceCon March 17 to 20 in Orlando, Fla., are built around NEC’s Univerge360 strategy, which integrates users’ […]

Nortel Networks on March 12 will advance the state of the art for high-performance optical networks with the launch of new 40G-bps technology. Nortel is claiming a first with its Nortel 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine because it can provide both 40G bps and 100G bps of network capacity. At the same time, the technology allows […]

Microsoft and Nortel Networks on March 11 will continue to move their Integrated Communications Alliance ball forward with the launch of four more joint offerings. In advance of the spring VoiceCon conference March 17-20, the two vendors took the wraps off a joint unified communications suite, multimedia conferencing, branch office routing integrated with UC services […]

3Com continued its Open Services Networking drive to integrate best-of-breed functionality into its Multi Service Router line on March 10 with new policy-based configuration management. 3Com added automated configuration management provider LineSider Technologies to its growing list of companies that provide integrated services on top of its MSR routers. To date, 3Com has partnered with […]

DANA POINT, Calif.-Juniper Networks is raring for a fight in the enterprise networking market, now that it has a line of LAN switches to sell. But whether the company can get past its roots as a network equipment supplier focused on the service provider market with a not-invented-here mentality remains to be seen. Juniper officials, […]

Veteran project and portfolio management provider Primavera Systems on March 6 will advance the goal of helping IT executives make the right decisions for their IT investments with the introduction of a new release of its ProSight portfolio manager. The Web-based ProSight, considered a leader in the portfolio management space according to Gartner, includes a […]