Tim Greene

Even the lure of phone systems that withstand disasters combined with the benefits of unified messaging don

Saving money is no longer the object in VOIP deployments among colleges and universities -- it is the search for converged communications and acceptance of the inevitable, panelists agreed at the VOIP summit this week held by ACUTA, the Association for Communications Professionals in Higher Education.

Sound Transit in Seattle unclogged slow WAN links that hindered railway-improvement projects by using WAN-optimization gear that made traffic run faster and cost much less over time than other options.

ConSentry said last month its NAC gear will be sold as part of the Alcatel-Lucent line of network equipment for at least a three-year period, making it possible for customers to get network-access equipment packaged with Alcatel-Lucent switches and routers.

VoIP gear from major vendors can be made secure, but it doesn

Businesses with fewer than 500 employees are more suspicious of voice-over-IP security than they are of the traditional phone network and even more suspicious than they are of Wi-Fi, according to an IDC study sponsored by the Computing Technology Industry Association.

An upgrade to Juniper Networks

Digium has named a new CEO to replace the open source PBX maker