| Saving with Skype in the mobile enterprise Skype, with its initial proprietary protocols and peer-to-peer behavior, has historically not been particularly popular with enterprise IT departments. However, a few recent moves, including some wireless ones, might be starting to change all that. Mobile operators extend options for cellular discounts The mobile network operators have been quietly enhancing their cellular voice plans to make using their wireless networks for intra-company calls more economically appealing. For a couple of years, the big U.S. operators have offered calling plans that integrate, to a degree, your cellular phone with your PBX feature set and on-net campus calling price plan. Now, those options are becoming more numerous and varied. Skype for SIP targets business customers Skype is making its second run at corporate business with a service that lets its peer-to-peer VoIP clients interact with existing IP PBXs, and this may be just the start of a larger push. Skype is largest international voice carrier, says study Skype carried around 33 billion minutes of international voice calls last year, or around 8% of all international voice traffic, according to market researcher TeleGeography. Clearwire plans Silicon Valley 'sandbox' WiMAX network Clearwire is teaming up with Google, Cisco and Intel to build a WiMAX network in Silicon Valley for software developers to try out new applications on the fourth-generation mobile broadband technology. Motorola exec dishes on LTE role An interview with Motorola senior vice president Fred Wright Alcatel shows off IP core for LTE networks Alcatel-Lucent on Wednesday was set to introduce its Evolved Packet Core (EPC), a set of network components that will help to power the LTE network of Verizon Wireless and other mobile operators. Cisco plans Rx for nurses A Cisco survey finds nurses spend as much as two hours a shift tracking down people in order to get answers, and is devloping clinical care products to address the communication gap. From ground to satellite How do you link your system to a satellite? Ron Nutter provides the answer. Video: Pressure sensor adds urgency to mobile calls When your phone rings, most often you don’t know whether its an urgent phone call or just a friend who wants to chat. A prototype on display at Boston’s Computer Human Interface conference plans to change that. Spectrum Analyzers for Wi-Fi: Everybody Needs One Mathias: Spectrum analyzers are going to be a big business going forward. The most important development here will be the incorporation of spectral analysis into Wi-Fi infrastructure, either within APs (some Wi-Fi chipsets provide suitable output in addition to serving their required communications functions) or in dedicated sensors. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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