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Codima Mapping BT Ireland's Network in Real Time Print E-mail

Think of it as the David and Goliath story, only performed in slow motion.

Christer Mattson knows firsthand the challenges of bidding out for new services with an old-school telephone company. As CEO of a small software firm with about 30 employees, Mattson understands the unhurried, deliberative processes a carrier moves through before selecting a system.

Mattson has also been on the receiving end of multinational rivals with big resources trying to knock down him and his company, King of Prussia, Penn.-based Codima Technologies (www.codimatech.com), removing them from competition for that extremely lucrative carrier business.
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Telx Lights the Life Aquatic Print E-mail

Pipes play a key part in any aquarium. They are used for filtering, water supply, and salinity. Along similar lines, the world’s largest aquarium needed data pipes for crucial conferencing, collaboration, video, and other converged services.

The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Ga., (www.georgiaaquarium.org) opened with great fanfare in 2005. The not-for-profit tourist attraction utilizes over eight million gallons of water and features a large collection of aquatic animals. Its mission balances the triple imperatives of entertainment, education, and scientific research. This includes a veterinary teaching hospital connected via live conferencing to the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
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Grinding out a Phone Solution Print E-mail

To Robert Indars, the daily grind is a good thing. That’s because his business will polish, grind, dice, lap, or optically etch just about any material.

“We give engineers the tools to build whatever they want,” says Indars.

As the IT person for Shirley, Mass.-based Valley Design Corp. (www.valleydesign.com), Indars says his company shapes rudimentary parts from plastic to silicon, and from semiconductors to glass. These can become the base materials of everything from a chipset in a cell phone CPU to an optical glass with a three-inch round polish for R&D engineers.
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Securing the IP Enterprise

Mobility is one of the hot buzzwords in IP networking spaces. Mobile workers, mobile devices, and ubiquitous service coverage present the holy grail of the workanywhere professional. This broadening of access, coupled with integration of VoIP and video services, creates a problem for enterprise security managers. Deperimeterization of the network has raised the bar on what it takes to effectively protect an enterprise. Enterprise businesses have implemented traditional security mechanisms ranging from firewalls and session border controllers to intrusion detection and prevention systems. They worked when the perimeter was a single connection to the Internet. In today's business environment, with highly mobile professionals connecting via all manner of devices, the perimeter is both nowhere and everywhere. But it's no longer a fixed, visible point in the network topology.

Global View

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    Forget the DMZ; global unified communications players are using multiservice-savvy customers and carriers in Korea to test-drive their solutions.

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    As the migration to all-IP networks gather traction, microwave networks are going through a transformation. The rapid growth of mobile communication networks in emerging markets and the transition to 3G, 3.5G, and 4G networks in developed markets are…

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  • The Consistency of Voice

    If you need any more evidence of the power of consistency, look no further than your local franchise restaurant. With few exceptions, the best restaurant in your town is not the Outback Steakhouse, but franchise restaurants are excellent examples of…

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    In the red corner we have DVBH– a standard that the EU is pushing, but several countries oppose the move, and it will be a few years before mobile video really takes off. In the blue corner we have IPTV delivered over highspeed wireless networks; i.e.,…