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	Cisco defending base against HP, Juniper Cisco says it is effectively fending off HP and Juniper as it grapples with a significant product transition in Ethernet switching. The transition, in which customers are opting for new lower margin, higher performing Catalyst and Nexus switches over older ones, are impacting Cisco's profits and revenue share, but not necessarily its port share, says Rob Soderbery, senior vice president and general... Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Video Collaboration: Lights, Camera, User Adoption Video deployment has been slow. Today, barriers are dissolving. Price points are dropping. CIOs are more engaged in driving the business forward with process and technology. Learn More In this Issue The history of Metro Ethernet Metro Ethernet Forum celebrates 10 years of key network accomplishments CFO departs from Cisco rival Brocade Cisco releases dozens of free PowerShell scripts to manage its UC servers Moving VoIP and UC into the cloud WHITE PAPER: EMC Network Configuration & Change Management for Dummies Read this and learn the NCCM "basics," key challenges associated with NCCM, the IT and business benefits of automating NCCM, and the top 10 reasons why automated NCCM creates value, reduces business risk, and can help ensure business goals are met. Read now The history of Metro Ethernet A lot has happened with Ethernet in service provider networks in the past 10 years. And the Metro Ethernet Forum has been behind a lot of that progress. From promoting and education the industry on the merits of Ethernet in the service provider network, to actually defining carrier-class Ethernet specifications, the MEF has been at the forefront of advances in the technology on a larger-than-enterprise-network scale. Here are the major milestones the MEF has achieved over that time period: Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Independent Lab Comparative Review MierConsulting engineers conducted an hands-on, comparative review of three leading contact center packages, focusing on these products' multimedia, mixed voice and text-based contacts - capabilities. Read Now Metro Ethernet Forum celebrates 10 years of key network accomplishments When the Metro Ethernet Forum celebrates its tenth anniversary next month, it can tick off quite a list of accomplishments for the ways it has shaped the Layer 2 Ethernet standard. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Identity-Aware Networking Download this whitepaper today discover how IT can integrate identity and networking, enabling new business processes and easing regulatory compliance while improving security. Read now! CFO departs from Cisco rival Brocade The CFO of Brocade departed abruptly this week to "pursue other interests," according to the company. Richard Deranleau, Brocade's CFO for the past five years, left the company last Monday, June 20. Read More Cisco releases dozens of free PowerShell scripts to manage its UC servers On June 1, 2011, Cisco released the beta version of the Unified Computing System Manager PowerShell Toolkit with dozesn of cmdlets to help automate management tasks on Cisco's UC bladeserver. Interesting! I contacted the project's leader, John McDonough, custom application engineer, and asked him to tell me more about it. What follows is a guest blog written by John, but before we get to that,... Read More Moving VoIP and UC into the cloud Over the past few months, Webtorials and Delphi have collaborated to produce the "2011 Sourcebook for VoIP and UC Services." This sourcebook is an extensive reference with comparative information from almost fifty companies on a worldwide basis. Read More
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