Wireless Networks, Global UC Market, Mobile VoIP Market, Cybercrime, Polycom Soundstation

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Wireless Networks, Global UC Market, Mobile VoIP Market, Cybercrime, Polycom Soundstation

Wireless networks are too congested to handle even simple voice traffic, let alone any fancy applications that require loads of bandwidth, according to The Wall Street Journal.

As a result, companies spending enormous amounts of money on new equipment to update their networks.

And not just in America. In Macau, where mobile is growing furiously, local telecom operator CTM plans to invest in the construction of 4G mobile phone network and home fiber-optic broadband network, according to the Macau Daily Times, your go-to source for all things Macau.

As the Journal says, all those neat and nifty devices you use, your iPhone and Blackberry and iPad and whatnot, "need behind-the-scenes networks, filled with switches, routers and other gear to act as traffic cops and transmit the data."

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The global unified communications market is slated to grow as technologies mature and businesses acknowledge the value of integrating disparate communications and collaboration technologies.

That's the latest analysis from Frost & Sullivan's "World Unified Communications Markets," which finds that the installed base of fully-integrated UC users in 2009 was about 2 million, and is likely to reach 50 million by 2015.

As a nascent and largely untested technology, "UC suffered severely from the global recession, which forced businesses to limit investments to those generating immediate ROI," the study found.

Melanie Turek, Frost & Sullivan Principal Analyst, Unified Communications and Collaboration, said UC "offers the potential to drive growth in related markets and encourages companies to upgrade their equipment sooner than they might otherwise."

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One of the biggest challenges to arrive on the scene, a new white paper from Alcatel-Lucent finds, is "as a direct result in the number of devices now connected to the mobile Internet is the way cyber criminals now operate."


 

The Georgia Tech Information Security Center has issued a warning that "sources of cybercrime will become increasingly organized and profit-driven in the years ahead," finding that "the new wave of cyber criminals include international conglomerates of professionally trained authors motivated by high profit."

The enterprise security challenge can be seen from three perspectives, Alcatel-Lucent finds: Managing risk, protecting data and managing costs.

Managing risk requires enterprises to be prepared for new, more sophisticated threats that can occur anytime and from anywhere. Protecting data includes managing data flow to third parties and the Cloud, protecting mobile data and preventing internal fraud and information breaches, and controlling cost requires removing security-imposed productivity barriers.

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The Mobile VoIP Market Report2010-2015 has uncovered that the mobile VoIP market is growing, and is up 1.4 percent to $560 billion in 2010.

The strongest growth is posted by data services such as mVoIP, both on fixed and mobile networks, the report finds, "Sales of Internet connections and data services on fixed networks will grow in 2010 by 7 percent to almost $268 billion."

But it's mobile data services, such as mVoIP, which are posting even stronger growth - up 16 percent to over $187 billion.

The telecoms report also outlines how the mobile VoIP market will evolve further during the next five years, finding that the online social networks such as Facebook and Myspace "have integrated mVoIP services to offer opportunities for development of third-party applications and software, as well as multimedia content and advertising."

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Officials with VoIP Equipment provider VoIP Supply, are pitching the IP 5000 conference phone as a great option for "small conference rooms and executive offices," touting its clarity.

"The Polycom Soundstation IP 5000 features Polycom HD Voice technology, SIP interoperability, and a modern design that is ideal for smaller rooms at an affordable price," officials say.

The conference phone, a one line SIP phone that boosts Polycom's HD Voice technology, uses the G.722 codec and enhanced hardware features, to make conference calls sound amazingly clear and life-like.

In addition, the Polycom IP5000 has a seven-foot microphone pickup range and small footprint, which is why the vendor is marketing it as a tool for executive offices and small conference rooms with up to six participants.

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