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- Sony TDM-IP1 Digital Media Port iPod Dock Adapter
- New to Sony's 2007 line of AV receivers and home-theater-in-a-box systems--both the Bravia and the component-based lines--is the Digital Media Port or DMPort, a proprietary jack that offers connectivity to one of four optional accessories. The quartet of compatible add-ons include the TDM-NC1 (a Wi-Fi music streamer), the TDM-BT1 (a...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Digital music, Digital media, adapter, TDM-IP1, Apple iPod, Sony Corp., video, DMPORT
- Product reviews 2007-05-21
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- Thoughts on Microsoft Response Point
- One of the products that stood out at last week's Internet Telephony EXPO was Microsoft Response Point. Built as an easy way to bring SIP-based digital telephony to small organizations, it's ease of use is a step on the path towards pulling customers away from traditional, TDM-based telephony infrastructures...as...
- Tags: Software, SIP, Phone, Telephony, Product, Microsoft Corp., Response Point, Microsoft Response Point, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Emerging Technologies, Networking, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- SIP is the future of telecommunications
- As was clear from last week's ITEXPO in Los Angeles, SIP is shaping up to be the standard replacement protocol for the traditional TDM / SS7 network. SIP trunking starts to make it possible to offer an end-to-end digital communications solution that can call any number in the world...without...
- Tags: SIP, Telephony, Protocol, Telecommunications, Conference, SS7, T1 Connection, Session Initiation Protocol Trunk Connection, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Emerging Technologies, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- TechNet Webcast: How to Do a Proof of Concept for Communications Server 2007 Interoperability With PBX Systems (Level 300)
- Wondering how to take advantage of the existing Time Division Multiplexing TDM or IP Private Branch Exchange PBX infrastructure for unified communications? If so, join this webcast to get the information needed to deploy Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 in conjunction with TDM or IP PBXs using the "Standalone" and...
- Tags: Interoperability, Webcast, Communications Server, PBX, Microsoft TechNet, Telephony, VOIP, Networking, Telecommunications
- Webcasts 2008-06-18
- Programming stream of consciousness
- My wife is out of the country now visiting family. That, combined with the fact that I quit Microsoft last week in order to pursue full-time a startup project that concentrates, in the near term, on Africa, means that I am spending every waking hour programming. ...
- Tags: Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- RAD's Pseudowire Gateways Reduce Communications Costs
- Yorkshire Water has won many awards for customer service and holds the British government's Charter Mark for Service Excellence. The company wanted to reduce leased line costs while retaining proven voice switches by carrying voice traffic over a packet-switched core network. Yorkshire Water deployed RAD's TDMoIP pseudowire gateways, which convert...
- Tags: RAD, Voice, RAD Data Communications Ltd., Yorkshire Water, Government, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2008-05-21
- Technology Brief: Carrier Vs. Enterprise Ethernet Silicon
- Ethernet has been the dominant networking protocol in Local Area Networks LANs due to its high bandwidth, ease of use, and low cost. Until recently, its success in LANs has not translated to communications networks due to limitations in Ethernet's scalability, reliability, and manageability. With the latest developed standards and...
- Tags: Silicon, Network, Carrier, Lightstorm Networks, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Is Your Network Ready for VoIP?
- For many years, voice over IP VoIP has held the promise of enabling the next generation of voice communications within the enterprise. Unfortunately, its adoption has been slowed -- sometimes by the reality of poor performing IP-PBX systems; in other cases, by perceptions that VoIP technology is not quite ready...
- Tags: Network, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2008-03-24
- Retailer Enhances Customer Service Using Nortel Business Communications
- HMV Group in the UK recognises this need to diversify its route to market, and has significantly grown its web sales facility to match its strong high street presence. They wanted a single communications provider to upgrade the HMV Group head offices completely with more flexible, modern PBX technology and...
- Tags: Customer Service, Nortel Networks Corp., Product Marketing, Telephony, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, VOIP, Marketing, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2008-03-11
- VoIP: Cisco Goes to Number Two
- Love ‘em or hate ‘em you most certainly have to respect the VoIP folk over at Cisco. According to Infonetics, they've just moved into the number two spot behind Avaya in worldwide IP deskphone and softphone shipments. Cisco grew at the expense of its competitors. "Cisco took...
- Tags: VoIP, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Report: Hackers swipe FTP server credentials using SaaS
- Report: Hackers swipe FTP server credentials using SaaSIt doesn't surprise me....While I don't condone hacking, I do admire their ingenuity. It's too bad they can't work on the right side of the law. Unfortunately, the reality these days is that crime DOES pay.Malware as a Service?Well, we...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Servers, Hacking, FTP, FTP server credential, software-as-a-service, FTP server, server
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Sony Bravia DAV-X10 2.1 Channel Audio System
- The home-theater-in-a-box HTIB market is about as commoditized a category as you'll find when shopping for consumer electronics, but Sony's stayed in the game by offering a line of all-in-ones at a wide array of price points. For the 2007 line, the company retained its generally sexy design schemes and...
- Tags: Network technology, redesign, Sony Corp., DAV-X10, speaker, satellite, head unit
- Product reviews 2008-02-19
- Getting the Foundation Right - Unified Communications
- Enterprises have committed to IP telephony, and completing the conversion to VoIP is just a matter of time and money. VoIP equipment sales surpassed TDM in 2003, and Infonetics projects that 89% of worldwide enterprise voice lines will be IP-PBX based for calendar year 2008....
- Tags: Telephony, Unified Communications, IP Telephony, IP, ShoreTel, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking
- White papers 2008-02-15
- Traffic Engineering and Quality of Service in Cisco IP/MPLS Mobile Backbones for Enhanced Network Performance, Service Reliability, and Manageability
- Moving toward third-generation (3G) mobile network standards and satisfying increasing market demands, mobile operators are faced with expanding their networks to offer more and diverse voice, data, and video services. Many are increasingly turning to Internet Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS), which combines the intelligence of network routing with the performance...
- Tags: Backbone, QoS, Mobile, MPLS, Network, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Network Technology, Marketing
- White papers 2008-01-27
- Comcast on Digital Voice: "we're now number 4 telco, and we ain't VoIP"
- Comcast on Digital Voice: "we're now number 4 telco, and we ain't VoIP""Comcast pipes" encircle the world?I believe you meant to say that for the trip to the backbone your call travels on Comcast pipes. To reach outside of the Comcast subscriber set your call travels like everyone else's.More misinformation...
- Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Network technology, Comcast Corp., Digital Voice, VoIP, IP, network
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- Metro Ethernet Services Business Overview for Service Providers
- Demand for bandwidth in the Metropolitan-Area Network MAN or metro is expanding exponentially, the result of myriad factors, including data-intensive applications, new business models that rely on the Internet, the growth of broadband services, distributed applications, Web services, IP convergence, streaming content, multimedia, new computing models, networked storage, and business...
- Tags: Metro Ethernet, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Evolution, Challenges and Enabling Technologies for Future WDM-Based Optical Access Networks
- Upgrading current-generation Time Division Multiplexing TDM-based optical access networks will be a challenge in the future when end-user demand outgrows current network capacity. Wavelength Division Multiplexing WDM has been considered as an ideal solution to extend the capacity of optical networks without drastically changing the fiber infrastructure. This paper investigates...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Network, Stanford University, WDM, Fiber, Wavelength Division Multiplexing, Networking, Optical Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- IP Telephony Case Study: How Cisco IT Merged Voice and Data Engineering Groups
- When Cisco Systems migrated to IP communications, previously separate networking and voice networks converged, along with their respective organizations. Prior to the change, the Cisco IT group had been organized based on technologies. Telecommunications focused on Time-Division Multiplexing TDM-based Private Branch Exchange PBX switches. Networking concerned itself with LAN and...
- Tags: Telephony, Network, Information Technology, Voice, IP Telephony, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Networking
- Case studies 2007-12-27
- How Cisco IT Migrated TDM Local Access From SONET to OC-192 Infrastructure
- By 2003, 18 more Cisco buildings on the San Jose campus were using so much capacity that customer-provided access would be more economical, but Cisco could not add these buildings to the legacy infrastructure of unconnected SONET rings. The legacy infrastructure had other drawbacks as well, including high management burden,...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, SONET, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Case studies 2007-12-19
- How Cisco Built Survivable Remote Site Telephony Into IT Operations Command Center
- When Cisco converted to an IP telephony network and exchanged its TDM-based PBX switches for Cisco CallManager clusters, the company's mission critical Operations Command Center OCC was, understandably, reluctant to make the change. The OCC demanded a strategy that would guarantee fail safe operations in the rare event of IP...
- Tags: Telephony, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Case studies 2007-12-19
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