Softswitches

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses twelve common issues that network administrators should examine when troubleshooting network problems.

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 | Published: 12 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: The lessons from this whitepaper are applicable to a wide array of IP transformation programs and technically complex change management projects.

Posted: 26 Mar 2009 | Published: 26 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises are always seeking to cut costs and optimize resource utilization. Now, in this harsh economic climate, the need is more compelling than ever. This paper highlights potential savings exceeding $5,000,000 per year for each 1,000 employees through the application of Microsoft Unified Communications to your business and IT operations.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: An intriguing triple-play is emerging - the combination of video communications, managed services and unified communications - to create a new approach to inter- and intra-company collaboration and operational excellence.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Skype usage is continuing to gain ground in enterprises with over 250 million downloads worldwide. Management therefore needs to decide whether the benefits overcome the drawbacks and set appropriate policies within the organization. Read this paper for more details.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the need to select Cisco IP Phones, switches, routers for your home lab and explores how to configure the options of VMware so that you can load Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Unity virtual machines in a lab environment.

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Cisco's unified communications vision combines individual systems with different communications capabilities into a cohesive, powerful communications ecosystem that allows a business to revolutionize itself overnight.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Converged voice and data networks are becoming a major part of every IT strategy. There are significant advantages in bringing together voice, video, e-mail, instant messaging, business data, and office applications in a single, integrated network. Convergence is not just about cost savings anymore.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Because employees on the move require consistent access to people and data, enterprises have invested heavily in communications. HP and Ericsson have combined their strengths to provide an innovative, standards-based framework to unify and consolidate all the elements of an enterprise communications infrastructure.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: To mitigate against the problems described in this document, designers and managers of data centers and network rooms must adapt to the new realities of dynamic power consumption.

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Some small businesses are proactively finding roads to recovery, using network technology to reposition themselves. Their rules: Rethink the way business has been done, and accelerate recovery by investing in 21st-century technology that raises revenues, controls costs, and/or improves cash flow.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises can realize value from their UC programs by following some basic practices, such as allowing for sufficient up-front planning, finding the right champion, and establishing cross-functional teams to manage program implementation. This article provides basic guidelines for implementing a successful UC program. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Even the smallest business can live large with a business communications system from Cisco. Why switch to a small business communications system from Cisco? Because when you combine voice, video, and data in a single network, you can cut costs and get more done.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: No longer a thing of the future, IP Convergence is now the cost of doing business. Unified Communications (UC) is the target destination for many enterprises. And while the concept is no longer new, IP convergence remains the first major step on that path.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The way a switch learns Ethernet (MAC) addresses is by inspecting the Ethernet frame and recording the source MAC address in a dynamic table. The switch will also associate a learned MAC address with a port. It can then make intelligent forwarding decisions based on the destination MAC address. This white paper illustrates the process.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: As experts in every stage of the Unified Communications solution lifecycle, HP can implement solutions for your organization to reduce costs, enhance business responsiveness, and increase end-user productivity.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: To determine the return on investment (ROI) associated with the implementation of an HP ProCurve UWW network solution, IDC conducted a study of eight organizations world wide that have successfully performed HP ProCurve UWW implementations and are running the solution in their production environments today. This paper gives the results.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: As Unified Communications (UC) moves increasingly from promise to implementation, questions arise about the best ways to establish UC solutions. This paper describes effective approaches to unifying communications, the importance of optimizing your network infrastructure and how embracing converged communications can increase business productivity.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP's viability, regardless of which vendor's IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: As a resource to help organizations achieve strategic objectives for efficiency, cost-effectiveness and continuity of faxing operations, this white paper explores the reasons why organizations are embracing fax virtualization as part of their IP strategies and how they benefit from the technology.

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 | Published: 17 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Currently over 600 Orange Business Services customers use their VPNs to transport voice and data. Some use a do-it-yourself model; others use a fully managed model. If you're looking for value, the fully managed approach is the less costly and higher quality alternative. Read this paper to find more details about pros and cons of each choice.

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 | Published: 21 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In an effort to drive profitability and rein in costs, businesses are continually seeking to improve operational capabilities. Primary to this objective are today’s burgeoning network infrastructures which are continually being asked to do more.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we are going to discuss the application of QoS to networks with media flows installed within them, such as voice and video. We'll see that it is very unnatural for voice to even exist on a data network, because it was never designed to do so.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 27 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: QoS can be used in converged networks to provide voice packets priority access to resources, or it can be used to differentiate data packets from different application stream and provide access to resources according to policy.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008