Cisco To Cut 4,000 Jobs

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The layoffs, which account for 5% of the company’s workforce, will begin in 2014. The stock had initially slipped by 4% after Cisco released its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter. In the prior two quarters, Chambers had said he was cautiously optimistic and that the economic environment was “slow but steady.” He struck a decidedly more sedate tone on Wednesday’s conference call with Wall Street analysts, saying the global economic environment has been “challenging and inconsistent.” Chambers explained he’s “real pleased” with Cisco’s growth, but “it’s just not growing as fast as we need.” The company needs to work more quickly and focus on growth areas, he said. But he made clear that he isn’t at all worried about Cisco’s performance against its competitors. “A lot of it depends on GDP and global markets growth,” Chambers said. “We’re just not seeing it.” Overall, Cisco earned $2.8 billion on sales of $12.4 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter — and each figure was just a hair above Wall Street expectations. In-line results weren’t quite enough to please investors who have become accustomed to Cisco trouncing analysts’ forecasts.
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Cisco unveils nPower network processor

Always important when discussing dividends is the fact that, in general, dividend amounts are not always predictable and tend to follow the ups and downs of profitability at each company. In the case of Cisco Systems, looking at the dividend history chart for CSCO below can help in judging whether the most recent dividend is likely to continue, and in turn whether it is a reasonable expectation to expect a 2.8% annualized dividend yield. Turning to the other side of the option chain, we highlight one call contract of particular interest for the July 2014 expiration, for shareholders of Cisco Systems ( NASD: CSCO ) looking to boost their income beyond the stocks 2.8% annualized dividend yield. Selling the covered call at the $25 strike and collecting the premium based on the $1.46 bid, annualizes to an additional 7.4% rate of return against the current stock price (this is what we at Stock Options Channel refer to as the YieldBoost), for a total of 10.2% annualized rate in the scenario where the stock is not called away. Any upside above $25 would be lost if the stock rises there and is called away, but CSCO shares would have to advance 3.4% from current levels for that to occur, meaning that in the scenario where the stock is called, the shareholder has earned a 9.4% return from this trading level, in addition to any dividends collected before the stock was called. Click here to find out the Top YieldBoost CSCO Calls The chart below shows the trailing twelve month trading history for Cisco Systems, highlighting in green where the $22 strike is located relative to that history, and highlighting the $25 strike in red: The chart above, hosting UK and the stocks historical volatility, can be a helpful guide in combination with fundamental analysis to judge whether selling the July 2014 put or call options highlighted in this article deliver a rate of return that represents good reward for the risks. We calculate the trailing twelve month volatility for Cisco Systems (considering the last 249 trading day closing values as well as todays price of $24.18) to be 23%.
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Interesting July 2014 Stock Options for Cisco Systems

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The company also introduced new IP cameras. This is great example of how businesses and organizations can use the Internet of Things to gain efficiency, harness intelligence, improve operations and increase customer satisfaction, Guido Jouret, vice president and general manager of Ciscos Internet of Things Group, said in a statement. The Internet of Things is a vision where more intelligence and sensors are put into connected systemsfrom industrial machines to home appliances to automobilesand businesses are given the ability to rapidly collect, store and analyze the data being received. Cisco CEO John Chambers and other executives have said the company will be aggressive in developing technologies and products for the Internet of Things. Ciscos VSM7 is aimed at doing this for video surveillance systems. Its a market that promises to grow over the next several years. Citing numbers from Markets and Markets, Cisco officials said the surveillance systems and services market could hit $36.28 billion by 2018, as organizations look to use these systems to protect their businesses, employees and customers, and to reduce their risks. Given that, companies are looking for secure and flexible surveillance architectures that can manage the growing numbers of cameras theyre using and to collect, search and analyze the data theyre receiving. Ciscos upgraded VSM7 includes a feature called Federator, which enables companies to manage millions of IP distributed cameras via a single user interface. Another feature, Dynamic Proxy, lets multiple users in different locations see high-quality video from the same video streams by efficiently managing network bandwidth.
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Cisco Upgrades Video Surveillance Portfolio for Internet of Things

24 Cisco Systems executives on Sept. 24 will unveil a networking system they say will underpin the infrastructure for the upcoming wave of the Internet of Everything. For the longest time, networking was about speed and costincreasing how quickly data could move around and between data centers, and doing so while continuously reducing costs. However, thats changing, according to Cisco officials. While speed and cost are still important factors in networking, the real challenge will be the rapid increase in Internet traffic that will happen in the coming years, driven by such trends as cloud computing, mobility, video and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, according to Pankaj Patel, executive vice president and chief development officer at Cisco. In my 20 years in networking, I have seen various market transitions in the networking industry and many of those were led with innovation on how to tackle the immense growth in bandwidth, Patel wrote in a post on the Cisco blog . And today we are at the crossroads of another such transitionand this time it is not just about solving the bandwidth challengeas it is not just about growth in video, cloud, and mobility but also people connecting with various data , processes and things. By 2017, there will be more than 12 billion smart devicesfrom phones and televisions to tablets and smartphonesand more than 8.2 billion M2M nodes, as compared with 2.6 billion in 2012, he wrote.
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Cisco to Unveil Networking for Internet of Things Sept. 24

Backed by Cisco’s rich heritage in networking silicon innovation, the nPower X1 integrated network processor the first generation of the nPower processor family becomes the industry’s first network processor capable of scaling to multi-terabit performance levels while handling trillions of transactions. Delivering unprecedented network speed and intelligence, the nPower X1 is purpose-built for software-defined networking (SDN), enabling on-the-fly reprogramming for new levels of service agility and simplified network operation. The nPower X1, which incorporates over 50 patents, also features first true 400 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) throughput from a single chip, to enable multi-terabit network performance. All packet processing, traffic management and input/output functions are integrated on a single nPower X1 and operate at high performance and scale. The nPower X1 features highest-performing programmable control designed to seamlessly handle hundreds of millions of unique transactions per second. The nPower’s industry-leading processing architecture is purpose built for machine-driven events and ultra-high-definition video applications. With 4 billion transistors on a single chip, the nPower X1 implementation achieves unprecedented levels of performance, functionality, programmability, and scale for a network processor.
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Netman Howard Sands Writes Home

Musky Fishing – 5 year old Netman

Nobody even protested the match. In the real tournament I beat Matt Willander from Sweden, who was the number one 16-year-old in the world in ’79, but then lost to a German named Zipfin the next round. I’ll be home in the next few days. London is great, wish you were here. Howard Burlingame, California Dear Mom and Dad, I really enjoyed the one night at home. It should have been longer, but then, business is business. Meeting up with the Junior Davis Cup Team in Palo Alto was a little nerve-wracking, because I hadn’t gone through the regular qualifying rounds and I felt that I had to prove myself to the rest of the guys.
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No network connection – a preplexing array of netshell/netman related error messages

Error 127: The specified procedure could not be found. And, finally, when I run the command net start netman The network connection service is starting followed by The Network Connections service could not be started. A system error has occurred. System error 127 has occurred. The specified procudre could not be found. What specified procedure is it talking about? What went wrong?
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Netman arrives home

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The new products, which come complete with a cordless phone and a wireless router, offer customers the convenience of accessing Internet from home wirelessly. Netman Home is a product that connects several computers in your home to Internet wirelessly and it gives the user the luxury of cordless voice call functionality and SMS at the same time. Netman Home works on almost every operating system such as Linux, Mac and Microsoft and supports data technologies like GPRS, EDGE and HSDPA, among others. MTC’s Chief HR and Corporate Affairs Officer, Tim Ekandjo, said: The beauty of Netman Home is that it allows you to make a voice call while simultaneously browsing the Internet. According to Ekandjo, Netman Home is another first for the Namibian consumer. It is yet again testimony of our resolve to benchmark ourselves with the international market and to give the Namibian consumer no less than what they deserve, he observed. Latest headlines Internet access for schools not guaranteed He also noted that the product and its pricing structure have been tailored to families, especially parents and students and additionally caters for the businessperson who uses the Internet during the evenings. The product is currently only available on contract with a monthly subscription of N$499. On top of the cordless phone and the wireless router, customers buying Netman Home Plus will get a Notebook (laptop) and 7.2 3G device for only N$899. As a limited special offer, customers who sign up before 31 January 2011 will have the connection fee waived.
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Cisco Leapfrogs Rivals With Faster Router

Cisco Routers Again Take Hacker Spotlight

Cisco, the world’s largest network equipment maker, said up to 72 of the new CRS-3 routers can be connected for capacity of 322 terabits per second (tbs). The new routers hit the market in the third quarter of this year. At that maximum configuration, Cisco boasted the routers could in theory deliver every movie ever made in four minutes over the Internet, or connect China’s entire population of 1.3 billion people by video conference at the same time. While operators do not put this much routing power into their networks today, Cisco is betting that surging Web traffic — driven by smartphones like Apple Inc’s iPhone and services like Google Inc’s YouTube — will make these products necessary in the future. Cisco said it has sold 5,000 of its current most powerful router, the CRS-1, to 300 operators, which would be an average of 17 per carrier. The CRS-3 router took Cisco three years to develop and supports data speeds three times faster than its own existing products. It goes on sale starting at $90,000 each. “It’s a big deal for Cisco and its carrier customers,” Broadpoint AmTech analyst Mark McKechnie said, though he did not expect an impact on revenue this year. “It’s probably a long evaluation cycle, so it’s not something we think will really impact Cisco numbers until 2011 or 2012.” Cisco said it has invested $1.6 billion in the CRS product line including half a billion dollars spent to build the CRS-1. It did not break out spending for CRS-3.
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Cisco Certifies Plixer’s Scrutinizer for Application Visibility & Control Interoperability

Lindner, head of Recurity Labs, plans to release his new Cisco forensics tool, called CIR (Cisco Incident Response), which he has beta tested for the past several months. There will be a free version, which will check a router’s memory for rootkits, while a commercial version of the software will be able to detect attacks and perform forensic analysis of the devices. This software will give networking professionals like Fischbach a way to go back and look at the memory of a Cisco device and see if it has been tampered with. “I think there’s a use for it,” he said. “To me, it’s part of the toolkit when you do forensics, but it’s not the only tool you should rely on.” There are still major barriers for any Cisco attacker, Stewart says. For example, many attackers are reluctant to hack routers, because if they make a mistake, they knock out the entire network. “We sort of get a pass because no one wants to monkey with the infrastructure that they’re using,” he said. “It’s like screwing up the freeway while you’re trying to go to a different city. ” Though Cisco may not have any major security worries right now, Stewart is taking nothing for granted.
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These new AVC metrics set a higher bar in quality flow details and demonstrate Cisco’s commitment to the new NetFlow standard called IPFIX,” said Erik Peterson, Director of Engineering, Cisco. The AVC interoperability verification tests focused on how well Scrutinizer interpreted the new metrics exported by the Cisco routers using IPFIX. IPFIX is the recently accepted IETF standard for NetFlow. “This is a huge win for our customers as they gain tremendously from advanced flow details such as Application Round Trip Time, NBAR, packet HP servers UK loss, retransmits, jitter, HTTP host and dozens of other great elements,” said Michael Patterson, CEO, Founder, Plixer International, Inc. The newest release of Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer, version 11.0.2, comes with several key features to enhance support for Cisco’s Application Visibility and Control (AVC). The companies will jointly demonstrate the new metrics on September 26th, 2013 in a webcast titled “Cisco AVC Flow Exports turn Routers into Security Surveillance Solutions”. The Benefits Cisco AVC brings to cloud applications Hardware platforms it is available on Network performance monitoring using Cisco AVC Network Surveillance and Threat Investigation using Cisco AVC To sign up for the webcast and learn more about how the exportation of Cisco AVC in NetFlow and IPFIX can turn preexisting routers into forensic investigation systems, please visit: September 26 – 4:00PM EDT The Cisco AVC solution is a suite of services in Cisco network devices that provides application-level monitoring, classification and traffic control to improve business-critical application performance and facilitate capacity planning and management. Cisco AVC recognizes and classifies more than 1,000 applications.
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Bradford Networks Releases Network Sentry 6.1 To Enhance Endpoint Control And Remediation

Security Onion tutorial: Analyze network traffic using Security Onion

The new version includes a REST API to extend and tighten integrations with leading security, mobile device management, and network infrastructure solutions for greater endpoint visibility, control and remediation. The Company also announced several new features to provide greater support for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives. Bradford Networks will be showcasing Network Sentry 6.1, including the integration with AirWatch, in Booth 106 at the AirWatch Connect Mobility Expo, Sept. 9-12 in Atlanta. Through Network Sentry’s SmartEdge Platform, industry-leading security, mobile device management and network infrastructure vendors can integrate with Network Sentry to deliver complete and secure solutions for BYOD. The addition of a REST API improves and strengthens these integrations, providing organizations with more detailed information and control over the users and devices attempting to access the network, thereby maximizing productivity while mitigating risk. “The addition of a REST API provides a much tighter integration between Network Sentry and our EMM solution,” said Kevin Keith, director of business development, AirWatch. “Our integration with Bradford Networks provides enhanced security and value to our customers. The joint solution ensures that devices and users have the appropriate network access and that each device is compliant with policy, configurations are up to date, and no unauthorized applications are installed.” In addition, the company announced new features to improve BYOD support and enhance the ease of use of Network Sentry: Enhanced Mobile Device Management (MDM) Services: The combination of NAC and MDM provides the foundation for a holistic security approach that addresses BYOD’s unique set of security challenges.
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However, many security pros working at either cash-strapped large enterprises or small and medium-sized businesses that tend to lack security funding still need a way to sniff out malicious traffic on the network. How do budget-challenged organizations go about performing this essential security task without breaking the bank? By using Security Onion , a free and open source collection of network monitoring tools from Doug Burks. In 3G bonded networks UK this SearchSecurity screencast , Keith Barker, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and trainer for CBT Nuggets LLC, provides a Security Onion tutorial, demonstrating how even the most budget-conscious organizations can analyze network traffic using the likes of Squil, Snorby and ELSA. First, Keith reviews how to set up Security Onion so it can receive all network traffic. Once in place, he uses Squil to delve into his own network packet data, including source ports, destination ports, IP addresses and other details. Squil can also be used to do reverse DNS lookups, track down information regarding the owners of IP address blocks and gain more insight into conversations happening on the network. Keith then runs through the capabilities of Snorby, a Web application that operates with some of the most popular intrusion detection systems.
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Security Moving From Endpoint To Network

Companies which have adopted SaaS are forcing cloud service providers to offer holistic network security. IAM is being used by enterprises for Web application and server protection. The exhaustion of IPv4 addresses and the government push to IPv6, will boost network security. So far, the security policies of organizations revolved around securing and controlling endpoints, but now the policies need to shift to control the data on the network, informs Jitendra Gupta, Director, Channel and Alliances, India and South Asia, Juniper Networks. Network security has become a boardroom issue for most organizations and CISOs and CSOs are charged with ensuring security of mission critical data traversing the networks, states Sunil Sharma, VP Sales & Operations, India & Saarc, Cyberoam. The network security market in India stood at Rs 1,406 crore in FY2012-13, and is expected to be Rs 1,638 crore in FY2013-14. According to RS Market Research Solutions, large enterprises contributed 44.3 percent, the mid-market 8.2 percent, small businesses 15 percent, and the government and education segments 32.5 percent.
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Hp Project Moonshot Hurls Arm Servers Into The Heavens

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“This is an extension of, not a replacement of, our ProLiant and Integrity server lines,” Paul Santeler, general manager of the hyperscale business unit within the Industry Standard Servers and Software division at HP. And while HP was not in a mood to talk specifics, Santeler said that Moonshot would include super-dense servers based on Intel low-power Xeon and Atom chips and Advanced Micro Devices hosting UK low-power x86 processors as well as multiple suppliers of ARM-based server chips. HP is not interested in locking itself into one ARM supplier any more than it can afford to depend on just Intel or AMD alone. In this world, with technical, economic, and natural disasters, you need to at least dual-source key components, and equally more importantly, different ARM server chip variants are going to be good at different things. As we have reported elsewhere, the EnergyCore chips are one of a handful of ARM processors that have been expressly designed for hyperscale server workloads. The ECX-1000 processors that are the first in the EnergyCore products are 32-bit chips that will come in two-core and four-core variants. They include memory, I/O, and storage controllers and an embedded Layer 2 switch fabric on the chip, which means you can just wire a 4GB DDR3 memory stick to one, slap on some I/O ports, plug these babies into a passive backplane, and you have interconnected server nodes that take the place of rack servers and top-of-rack switches. The EnergyCore Fabric Switch embedded on each chip can implement a 2D torus, mesh, fat tree, and butterfly tree topologies and scale across 4,096 sockets (each socket is a server node, since Calxeda is not doing cache coherency across sockets). The original Calxeda reference design from last year was a 2U rack-mounted chassis that crammed 120 processors (and hence server nodes) into that metal box. With the production-grade ECX-1000 processors. Calxeda has put together a four-node server card with four memory slots and PCI-link interconnects so it can snuggle into a passive backplane to get power and talk to its ARM peers and make a network.
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HP Intros New Intel Atom Avoton-based Moonshot Server Cartridge

HP Moonshot

“It is a lot of power, indeed,” said Rich Baldwin, CIO and chief strategy officer at Nth Generation Computing, a San Diego-based solution provider and long-term HP partner. “That’s 3,600 cores in a rack,” Baldwin said. “That’s phenomenal compute power. This is where people sit up and really start looking at Moonshot.” A lot of large companies, including web companies, are still focused on rack-mount servers, Baldwin said. A typical 1U rack server may have 8 cores for a total of 336 cores per rack, or about one-tenth the density of the new Moonshot. “In a data center or colo, if a company can shrink five or 10 cabinets into one, that’s pretty significant,” he said. Customers are certainly looking at the possibilities, Baldwin said. “At our Nth Symposium users conference , we noticed several of our larger customers looking the Moonshot over,” he said. “These are universities and school systems with thousands of users.” The original HP Moonshot servers were based on Intel’s Atom S1200 processors, code-named Centerton .
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Gartner: HP Server Shipment Share Slides In Q2

Server unit sales gains in China by Lenovo and Huawei have hurt HP because of that country’s push to get Chinese companies to buy from local suppliers, said a source briefed on the preliminary Gartner data. Dell, meanwhile, experienced key wins in Europe, the source said. The Chinese server market has grown 21.6 percent year over year, according to Gartner data obtained by CRN. Gains are due to sales to big Internet companies, sources said. The second biggest server market gains were in Asia-Pacific with 9.9 percent year-to-year growth, according to Gartner numbers obtained by CRN. “Amazon, Microsoft and Google are all buying low-cost, energy-efficient and high-density servers,” IDC’s Eastwood said.
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HP, NEC join forces to develop next-generation x86 servers

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HP is trying to catch up to rivals such as Amazon Web Services in the growing market for cloud services, while also stay competitive in hardware amid a general shift away from Unix. The company announced a strategy to pursue a hybrid cloud approach last year, based on a solution it is calling HP Converged Cloud. Last month it announced a new operating system for cloud computing, HP Cloud OS, built on the open-source hosting software platform OpenStack, but said initially the new OS will only run on its own hardware. The new partnership will aim to speed up the development of HP’s Project Odyssey, which it first announced in 2011. The project is an attempt to integrate x86 server blades running Windows or Linux with its Itanium-based server lineup based on Unix. NEC said the companies will specifically focus on a system that HP has been developing for years called “DragonHawk,” which is supposed to be able to incorporate both types of servers into a single cabinet but has been slow to materialize. HP and NEC first began working together in 1995, offering systems built on HP’s Unix-based solutions.
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Voip Gateways

Tweet According to TelcoBridges, the Tsig gateway should cater to the signaling requirements of large Tier-1 carriers, agile MNO/MVNO/MVNEs, and everyone in between. Gaetan Campeau( News – Alert ), chief executive officer at TelcoBridges, commented, Our Tmedia gateways have earned the reputation for being the most stable and reliable gateways in the industry, and the new Tsig family focuses Tmedias functionality towards offering a dedicated signaling solution for meeting specific customer needs. Tsig is a flexible solution that can be upgraded as needs evolve. Not only can it be remotely upgraded to carry more links, but it can also be upgraded to a full Tmedia gateway to address a wider variety of needs. The TelcoBridges Tsig Signaling/SIGTRAN Gateway( News – Alert ) transfers signaling messages between Common Channel Signaling nodes (CCS) and/or between Signaling Transfer Points (STP). The Tsig signaling/SIGTRAN gateway performs packet level translation from SS7 signaling to SIGTRAN signaling. The solution is also stated to be capable of scaling from 1x SS7 signaling link to 64x SS7 signaling links in a single unit. It can be deployed fully redundant (1+1) providing high availability (HA) of over 99.999 percent availability. The Tsig gateway is suitable for network locations where a full media gateway is not required, and is an ideal drop in for existing NGN networks, or for use in new NGN network deployments. Some of the notable features of Tsig gateway are: up to 64 E1/T1, or 3 DS3, or 1xSTM1, high Availability (HA) solutions including 1+1 redundancy, Low Speed Links (LSL) & High Speed Link (HSL( News – Alert )) support, SCTP multi-homing, Pointcode routing & CIC range routing (Circuit Identification Code) and Pointcode conversion, Capability Point Code, Alias Point Code, Global Title Translation (GTT) routing/translation, audit logs, easy to use GUI, SNMP Monitoring & reporting and more.
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3CX Frees the PBX from the Constraints of the Office & Desktop – and Delivers Mobility & Unified Communications

Now Android and iPhone smartphones wake up when a call or chat message arrives, saving valuable battery time whilst still allowing you to be reachable on your extension anywhere and slashes company call costs as users can be reached via VoIP. As the calls are being sent via 3CX Phone System, users do not need to give out their mobile number either, ensuring a sustained level of privacy. Increase Productivity with Outstanding Unified Communications Features 3CXPhone is a fully geared to enhance the user’s productivity as it’s a featured unified communications client, not just a softphone. Users can check the status of other users and chat with them using the IM feature. They can also setup a conference call with just one click, view voicemails and call history from their smartphone & Windows desktop. Beyond the Standard PBX and IP Phone & Gateway Relationship 3CX’s partnership with the leading IP phone and VoIP gateway manufactures ensures all products are fully tested and validated by 3CX before their release. This guarantees that (visit site) there are no compatibility issues when using the new Yealink T46G IP phone and the Welltech WellGate 2540 VoIP gateway with 3CX Phone System. 3CX Phone System 12 will also soon support the low-cost Gigaset N720 DECT devices.
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Bahrain to study restrictions on VoIP services

Many Arab opposition activists prefer to use VoIP and other Internet technologies to communicate because they are much harder to bug than a regular phone line, and cheaper. Bahrain’s Minister of State for Communications said the government did not monitor conventional telecommunications and a decision to study the use of VoIP was motivated by a variety of risks posed by the technology. “There are examples of VoIP technology being used for pornography, which naturally clashes with our values in the kingdom,” said the minister, Sheikh Fawaz bin Mohammed al-Khalifa. “We also would not want technology being used to subvert state security, or be used in fraudulent enterprises like phishing and identity theft.” Since the Arab Spring uprisings, several Gulf governments have pushed for greater oversight and control of VoIP and other hard-to-trace communication tools such as BlackBerry Messenger. Saudi Arabia, which is connected to Bahrain by a causeway and sent troops to help put down the protests on the island in 2011, warned the likes of Skype and Whatsapp in March that they flouted local rules. The Saudi government banned VoIP provider Viber last month. Bahrain’s government said last week it may introduce new legislation to govern VoIP to “ensure that the appropriate public policies and regulation are in place”. Asked by email when a decision was likely to be made on whether to restrict VoIP in Bahrain, Sheikh Fawaz replied: “We are studying this issue but don’t have a timeline yet, nor are we close to considering a ban or restriction on the use of VoIP technology.” BAD FOR BUSINESS VoIP allows free internet-to-internet phone calls and messaging, while tariffs for internet-to-mobile or landline phones are dramatically cheaper than by conventional means. For that reason, commercial concerns may be a factor in recent government scrutiny of these services. All 15 Gulf telecom operators are part-owned by state-linked institutions to varying degrees.
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VOIP app Voxer updated for better notifications, performance

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Durham Catholic District School Board Deploys Enterprise-class Wireless Lan From Aruba Networks To Enable 21(st) Century Education Initiatives

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Springfield School District Upgrades Wireless Network with Aruba Instant Controller-less Wi-Fi Solution

“When we started looking for our new wireless LAN solution, we knew we had to invest for the long-term,” continued Rodriguez. “We have a responsibility to the taxpayers that support the Durham Catholic District School Board to find and deploy cost-effective technologies that support our current educational objectives and processes, and are robust enough to carry us into the future. Our Aruba wireless infrastructure should allow us to continue deploying innovative technologies in our classrooms, providing our K-12 students with an exceptional educational experience.” About the Durham Catholic District School Board The Durham Catholic District School Board shares a sense of community among families, educators and parishes and is committed to integrating the teachings of the Gospel with quality educational programs that guide students in their journeys to meeting the Catholic Graduate Expectations. The Board currently serves approximately 22,690 students in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Uxbridge, Port Perry and Beaverton across 40 elementary schools, eight secondary schools and eight alternative and continuing education sites. About Aruba Networks, Inc. Aruba Networks is a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. The company’s Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture unifies wired and wireless network infrastructures into one seamless access solution for corporate headquarters, mobile business professionals, remote workers and guests.
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The Aruba Instant access points (IAPs) performed flawlessly, providing the coverage and performance Springfield was looking for. With new devices including more iPads and Macs being added to the network every day, Springfields requirement for a solid wireless infrastructure has moved to the top of the districts priority list. The new Springfield wireless network is currently supporting about 2,400 devices in four buildings, and Springfield will continue to roll out Aruba IAPs to the rest of the district locations during the coming months. The district is also using Arubas AirWave Management System to monitor and manage the wireless network, allowing them to quickly identify and resolve network issues. Aruba Instant has become a popular choice for K-12 school districts like Springfield that must support an increasing number of mobile devices in their schools without the resources and funding to tackle those challenges, said Gerry Festa, director of industry solutions marketing for Aruba Networks. Instant gives distributed environments like these school districts enterprise-class capabilities with simplified management and configuration, at a greatly reduced cost. About Aruba Networks, Inc. Aruba Networks is a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. The companys Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture unifies wired and wireless network infrastructures into one seamless access solution for corporate headquarters, mobile business professionals, remote workers and guests. This unified approach to access networks enables IT organizations and users to securely address the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, dramatically improving productivity and lowering capital and operational costs. Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000 Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com .
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Durham Catholic District School Board Deploys Enterprise-Class Wireless LAN From Aruba Networks to Enable 21st Century Education Initiatives

About Aruba Networks, Inc. Aruba Networks is a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. The companys Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture unifies wired and wireless network infrastructures into one seamless access solution for corporate headquarters, mobile business professionals, remote workers and guests. This unified approach to access networks enables IT organizations and users to securely address the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, dramatically improving productivity and lowering capital and operational costs. Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000 Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com . For real-time news updates follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook , and for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba products visit Airheads Social at http://community.arubanetworks.com . 2013 Aruba Networks, Inc.
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Wireless networks in the enterprise and in schools

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Traditionally, these books would be printed and handed out to students for a fee, but from next year, those with devices will be able to download the workbooks to their device. The school has also entered into a new printer and copy contract with Fuji Xerox. All students now have their own swipe card to release print jobs that are delivered over the wireless network to printers in the school. Students have a credit on the card, provided by the school, but once that is gone, they have to pay for their printing themselves, which has led to less waste and more thought before printing, Hastie says. Rangitoto College is now allowing staff time to experiment a bit more before taking further steps to make student laptops mandatory, he says. The big benefit of the wireless network and using computers in the classroom is increased student engagement, says Hastie.
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Shoretel Adds 400 Series Ip Phones To Line-up, Bringing Unique Features And Optimal Usability

ShoreTel Unveils 400 Series IP Phones

The phones offer greater flexibility by supporting premise deployments at launch and ShoreTel Sky services in early calendar year 2014. For customers who are considering an upgrade to their existing premises-based solution or a move to a cloud solution, the IP 400 series phones support either deployment model or a combination of both. Related Links & Conversation #ShoreTel , #UC . About ShoreTel ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR) is a provider of business communication solutions whose brilliantly simple unified communications platforms , applications and mobile UC solutions promise a new rhythm of workforce engagement and collaboration. With costly complexity eliminated by design from its award-winning, all-in-one IP phone system , UC and contact center solution, and its industry-leading hosted phone system , workers enjoy a freedom and self-reliance that other providers HP servers UK can’t match. Users have full control to engage and collaborate,no matter the time, place or device, for the lowest cost and demand on IT resources in the industry. ShoreTel is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has regional offices and partners worldwide. For more information, visit shoretel.com or shoretelsky.com . ShoreTel, the ShoreTel logo and ShoreTel Sky are trademarks or registered trademarks of ShoreTel, Inc.
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The latest series also feature visual voice mail, a highly-developed user interface, and embedded diagnostics. ShoreTel is an exclusive UC provider delivering a variety of communication solutions and endpoints. In a statement, Pej Roshan( News – Alert ), vice president of product management at ShoreTel, said, Whether a customer communicates with desk phones, smart phones, tablets, laptops or PCs, ShoreTel enables them to choose the device best suited to their needs. The ShoreTel 400 series IP phones incorporate the latest user feedback resulting in new functionality and optimal usability. Message administration is made simpler by visual voice mail. Users can scroll through the messages in order to access, hear, answer, delete and save them in any order, resulting in higher productivity. Users can use this feature to select messages for listening, deleting or archiving, straight from the phone screen. The established ergonomic benefits of ShoreTel IP phones are further extended by the innate user interface of the 400 series IP phones. The nearly vertical display features a five-way control for rapid navigation through screens and menu choices, resulting in improved readability. The nearly horizontal keypad allows users to easily dial and use the function keys. While the light handset delivers additional comfort to the users, the small phone size results in decreased utilization of desktop space. Todd Stone, CIO at QMACS, a client of ShoreTel, said, The feedback from our users has been fantastic.
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ShoreTel, Inc. : ShoreTel Adds 400 Series IP Phones to Line-Up, Bringing Unique Features and Optimal Usability

The phones offer greater flexibility by supporting premise deployments at launch and ShoreTel Sky services in early calendar year 2014. For customers who are considering an upgrade to their existing premises-based solution or a move to a cloud solution, the IP 400 series phones support either deployment model or a combination of both. Related Links & Conversation — Subscribe to ShoreTel’s blog. — Follow ShoreTel on Twitter and Facebook. — Read ShoreTel Customer Success Stories. — Bookmark this Unified Communications Glossary. — #ShoreTel, #UC. About ShoreTel ShoreTel, Inc.
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