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June 1, 2009 by
Steve
In this Networld+Interop interview we visit with Jim Kruger and get a demo of Polycom’s latest incarnation of it’s start of the art video telephones, the VVX 1500C, targeted at mid-market firms (100-500 employees) and the enterprise market.
Polycom has partnered with Cisco Systems to bundle these phones with Cisco’s VoIP PBX’s, branded UCS (Unified Communications [...]
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March 7, 2008 by
Steve
{mosimage}I had the opportunity to meet with Xirrus today to get a look at their 8 and 16 radio enterprise Wi-Fi access products, which have the switching and management system integrated right into the ceiling-mount access points.
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Written on
January 19, 2008 by
Steve
Many of the eleven million US small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are candidates to benefit from a new generation of robust, feature rich, and cost effective data protection systems (DPS). Collapsing hard disk drive prices, inexpensive thin servers, and new approaches to product architecture are facilitating a new wave of these intelligent backup, archival systems which can [...]
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January 5, 2008 by
Steve
I attended Cisco’s “C-Scape” Analyst conference Dec 10-12, 2007 as a guest of Cisco (in the interest of transparency, versus self-promotion) at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. It has changed quite a bit since I first attended ten years ago, when there were about 30 analysts in attendance. Even after Cisco has split the [...]
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