UC & VoIP Channel
News and Analysis
Ospcode's Private Chef Gets Cooking with Facebook
News roundup: Opscode updates Private Chef automation software; AirWatch and ForeScout team up for mobile security; WatchGuard unveils seven XTM appliances; HP gets agile.
More News and Analysis
- BlackBerry Z10: 5 Best Features
- Oracle to Acquire Acme for $1.7B
- Best of Interop 2013 Nominations Open
- F5 Challenges Cisco, Check Point with New Firewall
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Architectures
11ac's First Wave: What to Expect
802.11ac will super-charge Wi-Fi, but pre-standard products will come with limitations. Here's what you can expect as 11ac products debut in 2013.
More Architectures
- Will Cloud UC Breathe New Life Into Unified Communications?
- Six Ways To Reduce Your Corporate Telecom Expenses
- Get Ready For A Wire-Free Enterprise
- Virtualization's Promise And Problems
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Reviews & Workshops
BYOD: A Comprehensive Guide
The BYOD market is crowded and confusing. A new report from InformationWeek brings order to the chaos with a product matrix that includes 40 vendors in three categories: MDM, MAM and wireless access control.
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Blogs
3 Lessons Learned from Wireless Field Day
February 19, 2013 12:06 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
WLAN location-based services are hot, wireless technology is getting more complex, and WLAN interoperability just isn’t going to happen. These are the three big ideas I took away from Wireless Field Day.
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IT Not Ready to Quit on BlackBerry
February 13, 2013 03:45 PM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
IT pros hope BlackBerry can reverse its fading fortunes, but they recognize end user choice is going against the once-dominant mobile vendor. Network Computing readers weigh in on BlackBerry’s fate.
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RCS, WebRTC Will Unlock Mobile UC Potential
February 11, 2013 03:44 PM
Posted by Michael Finneran
New standards such as RCS and WebRTC aim to bring unified communications (UC) capabilities to browsers and mobile devices, which may open a new competitive front for enterprise UC providers.
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Open Spectrum Does Not Mean Free Internet
February 06, 2013 10:50 AM
Posted by Larry Seltzer
There's a common misconception that a plan to open up more unlicensed, unmanaged spectrum will mean free Wi-Fi for all. Expect a lot of wonderful things, including competition for cellular carriers, but not for free.
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Facebook, Google Encroach On Enterprise UC
January 24, 2013 03:28 PM
Posted by Michael Finneran
Facebook and Google are rolling out services that rival enterprise unified communications platforms. Vendors should beware.
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Are Big UC Vendors Missing SMB Opportunities?
January 11, 2013 04:58 PM
Posted by Michael Finneran
Unified communications vendors typically target enterprise customers, but more than half of private-sector jobs are in small and midsize businesses. Are UC vendors ignoring a potential customer pool?
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Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
