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Pure-play IP PBX provider ShoreTel on Aug. 28 will branch out into the IP telephony applications space when it debuts a pair of new application options that focus on integrated customer relationship management and Enhanced 911. Fast-growing ShoreTel kicked off its application integration efforts with a new add-on module for its IP PBX that integrates […]

Hewlett-Packard is jumping on what it perceives to be a trend to move away from unmanaged switches, coming out with a new, Web-configurable Layer 2 stackable switch that it will introduce on Aug. 28. The switch is one of five coming from the companys ProCurve Networking unit. The switches are intended to fill out the […]

Application delivery controller vendor Riverbed Technology on Aug. 28 launched new versions of its Steelhead appliance and software aimed at enterprises ready to scale their WAN optimization/application acceleration technology. Claiming that enterprises are poised to move beyond the tire kicking, pilot stage of the technology adoption, Riverbed created three new models of its Steelhead appliance, […]

Microsofts expanded partnership with Citrix Systems to deliver a joint branch office box appliance, announced on Aug. 23, signals a brewing battle with longtime partner Cisco Systems. The Citrix partnership, announced at the same time that Microsoft and new IP telephony partner Nortel Networks outlined more details in their alliance to deliver VOIP (voice-over-IP) software […]

Siemens Communications at Voicecon Fall sought to pre-empt Microsoft and Nortel in their software-based IP telephony play when it launched a new release of its HiPath 8000 based on a service-oriented architecture. The enterprise networks business of Siemens, which will be spun off from the parent in the next several months, introduced a version of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—NEC Unified Solutions took the concept of hosted IP telephony services a bit farther here at VoiceCon by introducing its Managed IP Telephony Services. The new service, aimed at SMBs (small and midsize businesses), provides a fully managed monthly subscription service without requiring that customers buy the IP telephony equipment. For SMBs still using […]

Cisco Systems on Aug. 21 disclosed that it acquired IPTV startup Arroyo Video Solutions for $92 million. Ciscos acquisition of the privately held on-demand video provider is intended to give the company a leg up among cable companies and other carriers looking to deliver video-on-demand beyond TVs to other devices such as PCs and mobile […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft, with the help of new alliance partner Nortel Networks, sought to build momentum for its fledgling Unified Communications initiative at the VoiceCon conference here. But the success of Microsofts efforts is not assured, and its initial foray into the IP telephony market raised more questions than it answered. Microsofts aim is to become […]

Along with the usual lineup of new product offerings, the buzz at the 2006s VoiceCon Fall conference on Aug. 21 will be about the changing shape of the industry, unified messaging and about securing IP Telephony applications. With Microsoft entering the VOIP (voice over IP) space earlier in the summer of 2006 with its Unified […]

Like many large enterprises, the IT shop at BE&K was planning a server consolidation project last year. But network operators at the $1 billion engineering and architectural company knew that its WAN would never be able to provide the kind of response time necessary for critical applications if servers were no longer local to the […]