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Taridium: Comms 1.1 - VoIP Provider Platform

whitepaper Taridium's comms provider VoIP platform combines all the advantages of an open standards solution with the reliability of non-stop hardware and 7x24 monitoring. Taridium's comms platform is deployed on high availability servers which offer five...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[28 Feb 2008]

Set comms free or pay the price, EU told

News He said some countries lack the resources and experience to regulate comms effectively, while political influences could be limiting the opening of markets elsewhere. Consumers in several European countries are still paying too much for...

Tags: telcos, regulator, broadband, eu

[11 Dec 2006]

telent wins £25m firefighters' comms contract

News Technology services company telent has won an eight-year, £25m comms contract with EADS Defence & Security to support England's Fire and Rescue Service. Earlier this year, EADS Defence & Security won the original £200m IT contract with the Fire and...

Tags: comms, firefighting, telent

[10 Oct 2007]

Satellite comms to bridge digital divide?

News Dr Hamadoun Touré, the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) secretary-general, said satellite comms technology can play a vital role in connecting remote and isolated communities around the world.

Tags: satellite, digital divide, itu, ensuring

[28 Feb 2008]

Good and bad year for comms

AS Analysis The striking absence of the heads of some of the biggest organisations in comms continues in 2007. Cisco keeps the internet running," said Carolyn Kimber, a panellist from comms user group CMA. In a similar vein to Charles Dunstone at 42 - though...

[12 Oct 2007]

Using Technology Solutions From Nortel Networks and Ramesys Comms & Connectivity to Bring Tomb Raider to Market Faster

whitepaper To upgrade their network to meet the current and future needs they turned to known and trusted partners - Ramesys Comms & Connectivity and Nortel Networks - for a solution to provide the "bulletproof" network their business demands.

Tags: nortel, game, nortel networks, tomb raider

[27 Sep 2005]

MoD boosts battlefield comms

News The original contract for the £200m comms network was agreed in 2006 and the network was expanded this summer to provide video cameras, VoIP phones and multiple computers. Falcon works with other MoD comms systems such as Skynet 5 and is compatible...

Tags: bae systems, falcon, raf, comms

[28 Sep 2007]

Microsoft dives into unified comms

News Whereas Microsoft sees software as the foundation of its unified communications strategy, Cisco sees the network as the key to making unified comms work. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Business Division president Jeff Raikes have formally...

Tags: microsoft, cisco, voip, voicemail

[17 Oct 2007]

Vodafone forced to connect with comms union

News Around 200 Vodafone workers in the Midlands, the North of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have gained union recognition. The mobile giant has been required to recognise communications union Connect following a legal ruling by...

Tags: union, connect, vodafone

[23 Jul 2007]

Norton Rose reaps rewards of comms upgrade

Case Study International law firm Norton Rose has signed a £1.9m contract with Affiniti to upgrade its communications network. The legal firm moved from six offices to a single London-based building in May this year and needed to consolidate its...

Tags: law, affiniti, communication

[23 Aug 2007]

Mothercare tears up paper-based store comms

Case Study Mothercare has sped up communication times and boosted the effectiveness of marketing campaigns across stores by implementing a store management and communications application from Triangle. The children's clothes and equipment retailer operates...

Tags: new look, bt, epos, retail

[03 Jul 2007]

Hurricane Katrina comms breakdown probed by FCC

News The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has pledged to examine communications infrastructure breakdowns that hampered emergency response and rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, saying it would aid victims of the crisis.

Tags: katrina, fcc

[16 Sep 2005]

Electronic comms - give us your view, says EU

News The European Commission is calling for businesses and citizens within its jurisdiction to let it know their opinions on the regulatory framework for electronic communications. The EC is reviewing the five directives which govern the market and is...

Tags: eu

[30 Nov 2005]

Unified Communications in a Converged Network: Put Users in Charge of Their Comms Experience

whitepaper Increasingly, more businesses are moving beyond traditional communications methods and are embracing newer communications technologies. But these new devices often have trouble communicating with one another, and managing them individually is both...

Tags: tcp - ip, converged, return, investment

[13 Sep 2004]

Microsoft, Nortel show off their unified comms

News The CEOs of Microsoft and Nortel Networks have announced the first set of products stemming from an alliance of the companies formed in July. At a press conference in New York, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski also gave...

Tags: microsoft, nortel

[18 Jan 2007]

Military unveils £200m next-generation comms network

News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a deal with BAE Systems Integrated Systems Technologies for a new £200m military communications network. The network, to be known as Falcon, is designed to give senior military commanders a high-speed, air...

Tags: army, falcon

[31 Mar 2006]

Londoners biggest spenders on comms

News Londoners spend more money on communications technologies such as mobile phones, the internet and digital TV than any other region of the UK, research from Ofcom has found. But according to the government watchdog, people in Northern Ireland and...

Tags: broadband

[26 Apr 2006]

Cisco's comms suite goes mobile

News Cisco has said its latest upgrade to its Unified Communications software will enable users to access its full suite of features on mobile devices. Until now, Cisco's Unified Communications software worked on desktops but not mobile devices.

Tags: cisco

[06 Mar 2007]

Unified messaging and comms get boost from IP

News Despite a slow start, unified messaging (UM) and unified communications (UC) will grow strongly over the next few years, driven on by organisations moving to IP for their voice and data communications needs.

Tags: unified messaging, frost & sullivan, ip

[25 Apr 2006]

Lloyds TSB invests £3.5m in comms update

News High street bank Lloyds TSB has invested £3.5m to integrate its selling of financial packages to corporate customers through a single customer contact-centre. The project, run with systems integrator Affiniti, focuses on the installation of a Cisco...

Tags: bank

[03 Apr 2007]

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