July 31, 2009 3:12 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
deployments,
MPLS,
SIP,
SIP trunking,
UC,
Unified Communications,
VoIPVoIP and unified communications each have a lot of promise in and of themselves. They each deliver innovative tools that allow businesses to operate more effectively and efficiently. As the Executive Summary of this presentation states though, deploying UC is not without...
July 8, 2009 8:49 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
capsa enterprise,
colasoft,
dropped packets,
jitter,
latency,
network analyzer,
packet sniffer,
troubleshoot,
UC,
Unified Communications,
VoIPNetworking has always been a more or less imperfect science...perhaps more of an art? The TCP/IP suite of protocols are designed with the base concept that transmitting packets of data is prone to errors and the protocols need to have mechanisms built in to manage dropped packets, latency, and...
June 29, 2009 3:12 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Avaya,
bankruptcy,
for sale,
Networking,
nokia-siemens,
Nortel,
siemens-enterasys,
Unified Communications,
wireless communicationsUnified communications is still a young, emerging industry. In its short lifespan the number of players has quickly grown. One of the biggest companies in unified communications has been Nortel. The Canadian network hardware giant had a solid relationship with Microsoft and visions of grandeur of...
April 2, 2009 12:55 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Avaya,
Cisco,
Evangelyze Communications,
Joe Schurman,
Microsoft,
Nortel,
SmartSIP,
Unified Communications,
Voicecon 2009,
VoIPRemember when Cisco was a network hardware company? Cisco and networking were virtually synonymous and you knew who to call if you needed a router or a switch. Once upon a time, Avaya was a provider of enterprise communications equipment. If you needed phones or maybe an IP PBX, you could call...
February 17, 2009 3:23 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cisco,
IP PBX,
Microsoft,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
PBX,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsIt is no secret that Microsoft holds a dominant position in the server and desktop OS market as well as the office applications market. However, Microsoft products need networking equipment in order to interconnect and communicate and Cisco has a dominant place in the networking and routing...
January 24, 2009 12:46 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
jitter,
latency,
quality of service,
Unified Communications,
VoIP aware,
VoIP qualityThe TCP/IP suite of protocols was designed with some safeguards against packet latency and alternative routing. When sending a data file, some packets may take a different path than others and the packets may arrive out of order. But, with TCP/IP that is OK because the protocols understand how to...
November 30, 2008 5:05 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Nortel,
SIP,
Sipera Systems,
UC,
Unified Communications,
VLAN,
VoIP securityWhen voice was just voice, it did not pose a security risk to the data network...at least not directly. It could be argued that there is still potential to exploit the voice network for social engineering purposes that result in a compromised data network, but that is a semi-convoluted argument and...
November 22, 2008 6:32 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cisco,
CUCM,
Evangelyze Communications,
Microsoft,
Mike Stacy,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
SIP,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsAccording to a recent Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Unified Communications, Microsoft, Cisco, and Nortel are the industry leaders in terms of both innovation and the ability to actually deliver that innovation to customers. Nortel and Microsoft have an intimate partnership through their ICA...
November 4, 2008 5:55 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
NetworkingI have to admit, I have been anti-fax for years now. When businesses or individuals ask me to fax something to them my first thought is something like "Fax?? Are you sure that morse code or smoke signals wouldn't be more efficient?" I guess my point is that I feel that faxing is antiquated and we...
