New enterprise locations may wind up never be opened; some locations are closed while others are downsized. Enterprises migrate from wired to wireless services. What if the network group ordered and possibly installed WAN services that are no longer needed? This is a real possibility in today's economy. Can the enterprise shed these services;...
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Archive for January, 2010
Selling Excess WAN Capacity
Corporate Video: There’s Gold in Them-There Hills; But Is It Still Fool’s Gold?
Many of the year-end prediction blogs and news stories I read highlighted corporate video as a market that would be red hot moving into 2010. Well we're still in the first month of 2010 and we've already had three major announcements involving video. These are SENs partnership with Polycom, Juniper's partnership and reference...
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Apple iPad Name Has Some People Ragging
What's in a name? Well to some who heard the name for Apple's new tablet/slate/pad lots of emotional hemorrhaging it seems. Sure many of us more evolved men know that some women call their feminine napkins aka tampons or "pads." There also called rags, plugs and more. But in every case, it's slang for...
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iPad: It’s a…It’s a…It’s a Little Too Big!
Well, the anxiety leading up to the Apple announcement is over, but now I'm sitting here trying to figure out what the new iPad is supposed to be and where I'm supposed to put it. Essentially the iPad is a 1-1/2 pound, ½-inch thick touch screen computer with a 9.7-inch screen. It comes with...
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How Dominant Will Video Become?
The big event of the week that's not Apple's Hype-athon Tabletganza is Cisco's Networkers, and there's some pretty bold predictions coming out of the Cisco event in Barcelona, most notably relating to video.
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