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Tue, November 21, 2006 - There is a lot of hype around this technology, but from a user perspective, voice over IP is getting a less-than-stellar reputation.

Mon, November 20, 2006 - ConSentry has announced a new switch combining its identity management with network access control technology.Previously, the company sold the technology as an appliance, but now the LANShield Switch, described as an enterprise-class switch that integrates the security features needed to secure every user and every port on the LAN, integrates the technology further into the fabric of the network. The ...

Fri, November 17, 2006 - Chinese telecommunication operators will likely build third-generation (3G) mobile networks that combine one of the main 3G technologies with China’s homegrown standard, a market research firm said Thursday, warning against the move."Full hybrid network establishment is not a viable model for network evolution," Norson (Hong Kong) Information Technology, said in a research note. "The most efficient way for operators to ...

Thu, November 16, 2006 - Skype launched its first mobile voice-over-IP (VoIP) service in collaboration with an operator, 3 Group, whose customers will soon be the first to use it.3 customers will be able to make free Skype calls to other 3 Skype users and to PC-based Skype users around the world. Customers must subscribe to one of 3’s new monthly data plans to use ...

Thu, November 16, 2006 - Network professionals have their hands on technologies that could help revolutionize the world of work, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Thomas Malone said Wednesday at Gartner’s Enterprise Networking Summit. New communication technologies have helped spark the two biggest changes in human organization so far and are now enabling another revolution, Malone said in a keynote address. Like other topics at ...

Wed, November 15, 2006 - As the demand for real-time data increases, as more and more information flows into the enterprise, the challenge of understanding and managing it grows proportionately. And sometimes, more is just too much.

Wed, November 15, 2006 - Voice-Over-IP projects often stall during or after pilot testing. Here’s hands-on advice from CIOs who kept their projects running.

Wed, November 15, 2006 - Replacing the telephone company with VoIP comes with one major potential problem for companies: The Internet is simply not as reliable as landline telephones. "There are going to be problems, and times when things go down," says Will Stofega, an analyst at IDC (a sister company to CIO’s publisher). "How you react to it is critical."Especially if you are a ...

Wed, November 15, 2006 - What’s most likely to
slow down your VoIP
project, or even leave it in
pilot testing never-never land? Forrester Research’s
Lisa Pierce cites three big culprits:

Wed, November 15, 2006 - IT professionals and Gartner analysts are looking beyond networks to the whole enterprise this week at the research company’s Enterprise Networking Summit in Las Vegas. Everything system and application administrators want to do affects networks, especially now that voice and other forms of communication are moving on to IP data networks, participants said Tuesday. That trend toward unified communications, along ...