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  • Ignore telephony security at your peril

    Posted January 5, 2011 - 3:14 pm

    Among the threats that keep IT security managers up at night, attacks against phone systems have often ranked near the bottom. The last time we asked IT leaders about their telephony security plans, just 2% had experienced a security incident, and in almost all of these cases, the attack was internal misuse of phone systems for personal long-distance calls. Few had developed any sort of comprehensive security or risk analysis plan covering their voice systems.

  • Microsoft's Lync fills gaps in VoIP

    Posted November 17, 2010 - 3:00 pm

    Despite the name change and hype around its dramatic release candidate and RTM version, the net significance of Microsoft's Lync 2010 release is that it brings the company's unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) platform up to par in some areas with competitors – though it doesn't slingshot past them, experts say.

  • App cuts cellular costs, adds link to unified communications

    Posted April 6, 2009 - 2:50 pm

    Agito's latest version of its cellular wireless LAN convergence software promises still more savings in mobile calling costs for corporate users.

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    Channel partners looking at unified communications

    Posted August 22, 2008 - 10:22 am

    The market for hosted and managed Unified Communications is hot--and VAR's can't afford to ignore it. This is a service that is coming on strong, with several offerings making a big splash this year. Unlike the shrinking margins afforded by traditional software and hardware sales, unified communications offerings can deliver greater profits for partners.

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    Unified Communications in the Channel

    Posted July 4, 2008 - 12:16 pm

    Unified Messaging holds a great deal of promise in terms of convenience. Imagine being able to click on an icon for a colleague on your computer screen, and then see a range of options for communicating with that individual. Are they in the office? You would automatically ring up their office number. At home? Doesn’t matter, your UM system would ring up their home instead. In the car in between? Ring the mobile. On the beach in Thailand? Well, you might be out of luck there.
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