Latest VoIP news.
Why Cisco wasn’t a no-brainer for Stanley Works, 04/17/07
Ex-Cisco engineer Dave Cote has ambitious plans for Stanley Works’ global VoIP network: hundreds of sites and potentially tens of thousands of Session Initiation Protocol phones. But the project will involve little gear sporting his old employer’s logo.
Going VoIP . . . with little Cisco gear, 04/18/07
Ex-Cisco engineer Dave Cote has ambitious plans for Stanley Works’ global VoIP network: hundreds of sites and potentially tens of thousands of Session Initiation Protocol phones. But the project will involve little gear sporting his old employer’s logo.
Podcast: Voice over Wi-Fi Deployment Hurdles, 04/18/07
Get the lowdown on voice over wireless LANs (VoWLAN) systems as Keith Shaw speaks with Jim Geier, a wireless consultant and author of “Deploying Voice over Wireless LANs”. Find out what new skill sets IT managers will need for VoWLAN deployment, and the top 3 areas of concern. (13:50)
Google buys Marratech video conferencing company, 04/20/07
Google has bought Marratech, a Stockholm-based developer of video conferencing software, taking it further into the sphere of collaborative work tools.
From Cisco Subnet: Get your entries in for the Cisco Press book giveaway
There’s only a week left to enter to win the book “PacketCable Implementation”, by Jeff Riddel, published by Cisco Press, plus other books.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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