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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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FCC Tightens Grip On VoIP Rules; SmartSIP Joins OCS to... Everyone Else
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Microsoft, HP partnership targets UC

The focus of this newsletter will be on a Microsoft and HP partnership announced last week at Interop 2009 in Las Vegas. As alliances go, this one could have a notable effect on the unified communications market because the plans call for a $180 million investment and collaboration on products, services, sales and support across a wide variety of the Microsoft and HP portfolios. Read full story

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Skype urges interoperability at Interop
Peer-to-peer communications vendor Skype used its Interop keynote slot last week to put out a call to traditional PBX vendors, inviting them to make their gear interoperable as the company tries to make inroads with businesses.

FCC Tightens Grip On VoIP Rules
The Federal Communications Commission is ratcheting down the rules for VoIP carriers and providers once again, in the name of increasing end-user rights and protection.

SmartSIP Joins OCS to... Everyone Else
Microsoft Subnet blogger Alex Lewis says SmartSIP was rather quietly released this week at Evangelyze.net. It allows enterprises to integrate Microsoft OCS with virtually any other SIP platform and endpoint device.

The Rest of the Voice Security Story...
When I left off in my last post, we had been discussing a myriad of bad things that can happen to Voice traffic in an IP network. Now we need to turn our attention to what we need to know to help protect it. Again, you might not be all that familiar with VoIP but like certain areas in the new CCNA, the CCNA Security, pushes a little past the general comfort zone for most folks on track for the CCNP.

45 minutes of Interop podcasty goodness
I've wrapped up my podcast audio interviews here at Interop Las Vegas 2009, here's a list of all of the five interviews we did at the show:

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