| Enterprise on a blade and the risk of putting all your eggs into one basket We received several reader responses to last week's discussion about "enterprise on a blade" as a trend in convergence. Today we'll address readers' concerns with reliability, ASIC design demands, and enterprise infrastructure supplier approaches to the 'godbox.' For the purposes of discussion, we'll assume that enterprise on a blade - in which discrete boxes such as routers, switches and PBXs will be replaced by services on a blade server - will happen, although as we pointed out last week, we also think the enterprise-on-a-blade will co-exist with hosted services, software-as-a-service and cloud computing. Is the future of convergence 'enterprise on a blade'? In reply to our newsletter last week titled "VoIP is not dead", we heard from Steve Hegg with a well written and insightful reply. Hegg is an independent consultant and is currently based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We'd like to share some of Hegg's points and respond to his views. Hegg believes that the industry is "heading for the era of the 'enterprise on a blade'...[that will] impact not only small, medium and large enterprises, but also the larger carriers that provide services to the home as well as the enterprise." Innovation drives up productivity and drives down costs Following our newsletter predicting VoIP and convergence trends for 2009, we heard back from IntelePeer regarding our points about the importance of execution in a down market. IntelePeer added that innovation also drives productivity and reduces operational costs and that innovation serves as a key differentiator not only among infrastructure suppliers, but also for vendors and solution providers. Dennis Hartmann on Cisco Unified Communications: QoS application classes Cisco pioneered a QoS baseline for DSCP markings in 2002. The DSCP decimal value and per hop behavior (PHB) for each of the 11 identified application classes is as follows ... Cisco delivers security, storage and unified communications for small business Cisco this week unveiled products specifically for small companies as part of its recently announced $100 million commitment to that business market. UC, you say? Get a crash course on unified communications with market trends, buying tips and a how-to for implementation. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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