SIP trunking: The savings are there but the transition is complex

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	SIP trunking: The savings are there but the transition is complex The merits of SIP trunking have been talked about for years and now it looks like businesses are aggressively adopting the technology, lured by striking cost savings and the promise of new functionality that their old phone networks just couldn't support. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Scale Your DNS Infrastructure to Protect Your Business DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More. In this Issue Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project Google may plant Fiber in tech-friendly Texas capital Move over SDN; startup looking to go where only Cisco, VMware tread INSIDER So you want to be a data scientist? Cisco acquisition highlights growing interest in small cells Making sense of the myriad SDN offerings Knocking down the myths of why enterprises need MPLS 3D printers: Not for the average consumer The SDN incubator Tech careers: 3 ways to catch the wave WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Controller-less Access Network Architecture Yesterday's de facto standard architecture is commonly referred to as the, "controller-based" model, involving controllers and thin access points. Read Now Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project Software-defined networking, a set of technologies to help networks better adapt to user needs with less manual effort, may at last be getting the common foundation it has needed for interoperability and efficient development. Read More Google may plant Fiber in tech-friendly Texas capital Google Fiber's super fast broadband Internet service may be coming to tech-friendly Austin, Texas, where the likes of Dell, Samsung and Intel have already set up shop. Read More Move over SDN; startup looking to go where only Cisco, VMware tread Software-defined network, software-defined data center ... and now software-defined fabric. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Best Practices for Implementing 2048-bit SSL Ready for 2048-bit SSL? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x faster 2048-bit SSL performance. Download the Citrix and Verisign 2048-bit Performance Kit. Learn More INSIDER So you want to be a data scientist? After months of high unemployment and a still-wobbly economy, any good news from the jobs market is going to get some traction. But even that doesn't seem to fully explain the attention surrounding a suddenly very "in" job title: data scientist. Read More Cisco acquisition highlights growing interest in small cells Operators and telecom equipment vendors are showing a growing interest in small cells, which aim to give users improved coverage and speeds. Read More Making sense of the myriad SDN offerings With the range of software-defined networking (SDN) announcements coming from vendors large and small it is hard to figure out which SDN approach is best for what. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP This paper describes a hardware and software reference architecture for using HP hardware to deploy very large and highly transactional Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 OLTP database systems in tier 1 enterprise application environments. Learn More! Knocking down the myths of why enterprises need MPLS If you're responsible for a serious enterprise WAN, do you need MPLS? Until recently, the answer to this question for almost all larger enterprises, many mid-sized and some smaller ones as well, was a resounding yes. Thanks to the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture, the answer going forward is: probably not. Read More 3D printers: Not for the average consumer Consumers getting excited about the idea of at-home 3D printers may not want to get their hopes up anytime soon, Gartner research director Pete Basiliere says. Read More The SDN incubator A speaker at a recent Network World event asked the crowd of 450 IT practitioners if they were familiar with software-defined networking (SDN) and only about 10% raised their hands. Read More Tech careers: 3 ways to catch the wave For years, Nick Brattoli had what some would consider an enviable IT job: It was steady, wide-ranging and at times, downright cushy. Working for a nonprofit mental health care organization as a Web and SharePoint specialist, Brattoli helped build the corporate intranet, trained employees and tended to traditional hardware and network support. He was reasonably paid and had ample vacation time. And the work came in fits and starts, so there was plenty of downtime. Read More
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