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February 6, 2003

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Telex Communications Nexus Platinum
Telex Communications has delivered its first commercially available enterprise communications tool, the Nexus Platinum conference phone. Designed for use by three to 20 people with extension capability, the Nexus has 360-degree voice tracking microphones that follow the speaker while canceling out ambient noise. Further filtering and signal processing is performed by a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) chip. The company claims its competitive pricing is thanks to its experience designing communications systems for broadcast control rooms and aircraft cockpits. $699. Telex Communications, (877) 863-4166, (952) 887-4051. www.nexusplatinum.com

AppDancer Networks AppDancer/FA Network Flow Analyzer
AppDancer Networks has improved its award-winning protocol analyzer, the AppDancer/FA Network Flow Analyzer, which we reviewed in September. This tool provides a top-down analysis of the flow or conversation between client and server in granular detail. AppDancer has added support for SCCP (Skinny Client Control Protocol) clients, making monitoring of Cisco VoIP calls possible. Monitoring for Oracle Server in real time is also available, and the product supports VLANs via recognition of the IEEE 802.11q standard. Starts at $4,995. AppDancer Networks, (770) 643-6800, (800) 825-7563. www.appdancer.com

Kontiki Delivery Management System
Kontiki's DMS (Delivery Management System), which uses grid technology for efficient content delivery, adds servers to the grid network with its Grid Server software. Grid Delivery architecture makes it possible to serve content simultaneously and securely to Delivery Managers located on Apple Macintosh or Microsoft Windows computers from one or more servers using XML. The servers feature high availability with support for load balancing and failover. Starts at $240,000. Kontiki, (408) 730-3000. www.kontiki.com

Executive Software Diskeeper 7.0
Executive Software is releasing a second edition of Diskeeper 7.0, with improvements to the product's defragging capabilities and disk processing designed to save time and disk space. Added features include Maximum Disk Performance, which promises to optimize defragging and free-space utilization through better scheduling. The Improved Free Space feature is said to improve consolidation of free space by increasing disk processing on NTFS during scheduled defragging. The company has also added a quick cleanup feature, New Quick Defragmentation. Starts at $49.95 per workstation, $259.95 for the server. Diskeeper 7.0 users upgrade free. Executive Software, (800) 829-6468, (818) 771-1600. www.execsoft.com





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