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AdaptiveMobile: CSOs Flying Blind if They Can't Monitor Mobile Networks

SS7 is the signaling protocol for the world’s telecom networks and like the internet, it wasn’t really designed with security in mind. The assumption back in the day was the telecom operators were all trusted nodes on the network. It...

Array Networks Goes Virtual, Gives MSPs a new Revenue Opportunity

The load balancing market evolved into ADCs and these devices are now competing with cloud-based solutions. As this evolution has taken place, Array Networks saw an opportunity to take a page from the carrier market and explore virtualizing network functions....

CyberFlow Analytics Detects Cybersecurity Breach Anomalies

Security experts agree – there is absolutely no way to ensure your network is 100% safe from cybercriminals – if they really want to get in, they will. All you can do is put as many layers down in front...

The Most Comprehensive Interop 2012 Video Interviews

In case you missed Interop 2012 in Las Vegas and even if you were there – I have some really good news for you. TMC was there and we shot about seven hours of the most important and engaging interviews...

New Service Provider SIP Trunking Workshop at ITEXPO East 2011

I just learned about a new pre-conference workshop at ITEXPO: Making the Case for SIP Trunking and Unified Communications. Expect the free session presented by Ingate and their partners to focus on minimizing deployment costs and maximizing revenue. This half-day...

Cisco Quad Points to Communications Future

With Twitter and Facebook entrenching themselves as the defacto social destinations for consumers there is a more quiet race betwen enterprise technology companies to position themselves as the next information hub for collaboration in the corporate world. I recently spent...

Technology and TMC Happenings August 26, 2010

SkyFire Comes to iPhone I was a huge fan of SkyFire on Windows Mobile as it approximated the iPhone Safari browser on a Windows Mobile device while also supporting Flash. Now it seems this browser is coming to the iPhone...

Cloud Computing Unleashes Creativity

Recently at Cloud Expo in New York I caught up with Duke Skarda the Vice President, Information Technology and Software Development at The Planet and learned about his company's Infrastructure as a Service business targeting companies who have hardened websites...

Interop New York 2009 Videos

I got back from Interop New York 2009 last night and was pretty excited to conduct a number of video interviews in the new TMC Newsroom set. One of the videos I was particularly excited to conduct was with Dr....

Volkswagen Dealer Chooses Megapath For IP Communications

Imagine my happiness when I saw a press release issued about local dealer, Riverbank Volkswagen deploying leading edge IP communications solutions. The news brought back fond memories because in the mid-nineties I made a decision to give away a brand...

Sagem-Interstar Makes Fax More Survivable

Sagem-Interstar Inc. (Sagem Communications) of Montreal, Canada has been selling advanced fax server solutions for IP networks globally since 2002. Their technology leverages IP telephony and Unified Communications (UC) systems to boost productivity, collaboration activities and overall ROI. At VoiceCon...

Sipera Tackles IP Video Security

My flight was cancelled here at DFW but while I wait in this ultra-comfortable Samsung-sponsored airport lounge which has comfortable chairs and power outlets galore, I had a chance to read about Greg Galitzine's scoop regarding Sipera's move into the...

Dalcom's Under the Radar IP Communications Network

The IP communications space has so many players and I wonder if it isn't a problem that many of us in the press and blogging community spend so much time talking about the well-known companies at the expense of...

Olle Westerberg: Available Now

Olle Westerberg is certainly one of the most knowledgeable players in the IP communications space and is the CEO of Ingate, a company in the SIP firewall business. Westerberg did a masterful job with the team at Ingate in positioning...

Sipera Looks To The Channel

Expect Sipera, the Texas-based company focusing on VoIP/UC security to look for resellers to sell their products worldwide. Brenadan Ziolo, the company's VP of Marketing Operations visited TMC this week to brief us on where the company is going with...

Podcast: AudioCodes Mediant 1000 MSBG

Recently, AudioCodes released the Mediant 1000 MSBG (Multi-Service Business Gateway) a device which combines the following: media gateway, enterprise class session border controller, data router, firewall, LAN Switch, WAN access, Stand Alone Survivability and an on-board general purpose server. This...

Major Spanish Hackers in Jail

Few things make people as happy as knowing hackers have gone to jail -- especially when the people going to jail are some of the most active hackers on the internet. While reading a story on the subject, I learned...

What the HP/EDS Deal Means

When you look around the tech market you see factors which suck the profit out of every nook and cranny. In hardware there is a trend towards standards-based hardware which is not slowing down. As this trend continues, prices shrink...

Security: The Best IP Topping of All

The Internet Protocol is one of the largest enablers of the last decade. It allows communications to take place wherever there is broadband connectivity. Voice over IP, video over IP, fax over IP… Just about everything runs over IP it...

The Latest VoIP Security Threat

For years I have been covering VoIP security and throughout this time it has been a one-sided conversation as there have been few documented cases of VOIP security attacks. Companies are generally not too happy to discuss VoIP security...

Ingate

I recently had the opportunity to ask Olle Westerberg, chief executive officer Ingate Systems, about his business and the direction he is taking the company. Ingate Systems produces a range of SIP-capable enterprise firewalls. Please read the TMCnet...

Webinar Update

TMC’s marketing team is apparently very generous as I found out today they are giving away a TiVo Series2 Dual Tuner 80-hour DVR in a drawing to one lucky webinar attendee. I would be remiss in my responsibility if...

My Travel This Week

I visited IP4IT this week and met old friends from Sphere Communications. They told me about me about their new relationship with Ingate systems allowing secure SIP trunking in the enterprise. This is important because dedicated SIP trunks are the...

ICE

TMC’s Bob Liu and Tom Keating wrote an excellent article on Microsoft and Cisco collaborating on the ICE standard, a technology used to enable VoIP traffic to more easily permeate firewalls in a secure fashion. Currently, session border controllers (SBCs)...

Ban Skype

Info-Tech Research says you should ban corporate Skype usage ASAP. Should you? Well they cite a few reasons you should such as:Skype is not standards-compliant, allowing it and any vulnerability to pass through corporate firewalls.Skype's encryption is closed source and...

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