Today's News

Microsoft WLAN Deployment Exceeds 11,000 APs

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AmeriVault Acquired by PHNS

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Route Explorer Helps Manage Honolulu's IP Network

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University of Washington Deploys XKL's DXM

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Octapharma USA Selects Hosted VoIP Solution

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UMASS Consolidates Servers To Streamline Operations

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Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Chooses Mitel

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Credit Union Deploys Platform for IP Telephony

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Surveys Reveal IT Departments’ Struggle

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High School Replaces Tape Archive

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Aberdeen Accounces Top 100 Technology Vendors

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Hewlett-Packard Acquires EDS

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Siemens and BT Announce Partnership

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University of Waterloo selects Aruba Networks

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BICSI news- Spring Conference report

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SAP Says Partners Will Play a Key Role

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Aruba Networks ships 10,000th 802.11n Access Point

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Verizon Business Supports the Troops with Free Calling

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Features
Global Overhaul

Law firm Bryan Cave realized its distributed communications network was architecturally challenged.  [more]


SMBs can cash in on VoIP

Hosted solutions offer big-business capabilities without big expenses.  [more]


Virtualize the desktop

Effective management of the centralized computing environment is essential.  [more]


Firm turbocharges Web meetings

Conferencing appliance and Web interface allow numerous departmental and training sessions.  [more]


Virtualization affects applications

The infrastructure needs to be built so that capacity can be changed and resources removed transparently.  [more]


Are hosted services right for you?

Lower costs, uptime guarantees, continuous monitoring and trained staff are all potential benefits.  [more]


Managing voice matters

The normal approach to quality of service takes a network perspective.  [more]


The advantages of a hosted PBX

The key benefit (besides cost savings) is that the service can send calls virtually anywhere.  [more]


Small business tries ASPs

Steady stream of news about disasters pushed company’s president to outsource his phone system.  [more]


Cabling changes in store for 2008

Fiber to the desktop, Wi-Fi networks and copper prices affect plans. [more]


Threat Stoppers

Employee education might be the best tool for fighting invasion of computer networks. [more]


Beyond Testing

High-volume network applications are driving the need for optimization technologies.  [more]


Up to Speed

Midsize organizations should emulate big company solutions on a smaller scale.  [more]


Featured White Papers
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Alien Crosstalk Testing Solution for 10GBASE-T Cabling

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American Power Conversion

Power System Requirements for Next Generation Data Centers

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Whaleback Systems

Overcoming the Limitations of IP Centrex

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NetQoS

Seven Ways To Improve Network Troubleshooting

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The ROI of IP Telephony Management

A compelling look at the hard numbers behind costs, benefits of IPT monitoring and management.

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Wish I was Fishin'
Am I crazy?

Ken Anderberg

I'm not sure which is worse in today's publishing environment - being an editor or a publisher. As the former, you're constantly watching over your shoulder, waiting for the ax to fall on editorial jobs because of declining advertising revenues. As the latter, the pressure to bring in print advertising is daunting, while client marketing money bleeds off to the Internet. [more]

The Bag Dragger
King of cabling

Denise DiRamio

May 8, 2008

The 2008 BICSI Spring Conference in Nashville, Tenn., was one of the most successful spring conferences in BICSI history. And on top of that, BICSI crowned its very first BICSI Installer of the Year after a competition of cabling know-how that could outstrip today's "reality" TV shows. And the winner is ... [more]

5/16/2008