Asahi Kasei, Alcatel-Lucent, Skype for IPhone, Avtech, Network Operators

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Asahi Kasei, Alcatel-Lucent, Skype for IPhone, Avtech, Network Operators

The good news in the VoIP software world: Skype for the iPhone has been updated. The bad news: Still no 3G calling.
According to GadgetVenue, the latest version of Skype for the iPhone has been released- "the new version is numbered 1.3.1 and does not add 3G calling to the VoIP software."
Industry observer Roland Hutchinson even goes so far as to report that Skype doesn't have any announcement for when it might add 3G, as promised.
We're a bit confused here. We remember, as GadgetVenue says, that Skype said it would open up for 3G calling back in February, so we just naturally assumed that this 1.3.1 update would be where that happened.
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A recent white paper from Alcatel-Lucent titled "The Enterprise Network Partner - Management & Transformation," notes that enterprises are increasingly outsourcing voice and data network management and transformation to equipment vendors, systems integrators, and managed service providers.
This is good: "A knowledgeable global communications solution provider can offer the managed services needed to efficiently and cost effectively administer the enterprise network from end to end."
Yet if you want to transform a data network to accelerate traffic to centralized data centers, or a legacy voice network into a converged and unified communications network, you need "new technologies, tight integration, solid security, and far more efficient use of internal and external transport networks," the white paper says.
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If you're a network operators or service network service, we don't need to tell you that to stay competitive, you need to offer more than a wide range of activities. If you're like most providers you're always looking for new ways to generate additional revenue without adding corresponding costs that erode margins.
Today, those challenges have intensified as a result of a rapid rise in consumer demand for broadband, according to a recent white paper from Alcatel-Lucent titled "Teleconomics: Doing More with Less: The Key to Sustainable Business Models for Telecommunications."
The paper finds that consumers' endless hunger for multimedia services has consumers, enterprises and governments' consumption of video and multimedia content booming. "This trend makes high-quality broadband services increasingly important for maintaining customer loyalty," the paper advises, adding that in fact, "recent Alcatel-Lucent research found that consumers worldwide value their broadband connection more than any other network service.
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AVTECH will be releasing the new version of its popular Device ManageR software soon. Device ManageR - no, it's not a typo - is AVTECH's newest software package free with the purchase of any AVTECH IT and facilities environment monitoring product.
Device ManageR is described by company officials as an all-in-one product for "the discovery, management, logging, graphing and more of AVTECH's IT and facilities environment monitoring hardware." It runs as a Windows Service and will continuously and automatically discover Room Alert and TemPageR devices network-wide using an optional UDP broadcast scan and displaying multiple units through a single web interface, accessible from anywhere.
TMC's Rajani Baburajan recently reported that AVTECH officials announced that the company has "pioneered some of the most popular environment monitoring products available, which have been used to monitor the Big 7 environmental threat factors."
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Asahi Kasei
 is a subsidiary of Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation, a manufacturer of poly-elastane filament fibers mainly for textiles. They're located in Charleston, South Carolina with corporate headquarters in Tokyo.
A while back they came to find that their SAP products' lack of flexibility forced the company to adjust businesses processes to the software rather than the other way around. Generating key financial reports could take up to 30 days, company officials say, adding that SAP's complexity required expensive, specially trained consultants and a $20,000- per-month wide area network.
"We were spending three percent of our revenue on SAP," said David Stover, Chief Financial Officer Asahi Kasei's Dorlastan fiber division, who added that by switching that to NetSuite, they reduced that cost to 0.1 percent.
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