Broadvox and Grandstream, Amdocs White Paper, Microsoft Exchange Study, GWE/TMCnet and BridgeWave

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Broadvox and Grandstream, Amdocs White Paper, Microsoft Exchange Study, GWE/TMCnet and BridgeWave

According to an Intermedia blog entry, according to a 2009 Radicati Group study, "more than 67,000 American businesses rely on an out-of-date Microsoft Exchange server for their e-mail, calendar and address books."
So what, you say. We still run Windows 95 at home. Well, fine and dandy, but as Intermedia notes, "given this reliance, it's not surprising that 33 percent of our customers come to us in crisis after their email server breaks, leaving their organization without e-mail -- or access to critical contacts, calendar information and files."
And if you're all caught up on your Microsoft updating - we're being theoretical here - how about your IT department? Is it overworked? Are your hardware costs too high? Can your business support both BlackBerries and iPhones?
We trust we've made our point. You're either still reading or you work for a wonder company and are clicking over to see how many more LeBron James jerseys have been burned in Cleveland.
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GWE/TMCnet and BridgeWave Communications recently presented a Webinar titled "High Capacity GigE Wireless Solutions: How to Maximize Performance while Lowering OpEx."
The wireless market "must expand in order to meet increasing demands for wireless data," BridgeWave officials noted, adding that wireless data "is increasing at a rate of 300 percent while revenue increases only at a rate of three percent. Obviously it's important for network operators and service providers to make sure the exponential growth in traffic does not correlate to increased costs."

The presentation focused on high-capacity wireless links to replace fiber, or aging copper-based leased lines, and discussed the advantages, in both terms of cost and network performance.

Also discussed were emerging GigE wireless products as "an excellent alternative to fiber and leased line connections, with the added benefit of significant cost savings." Real-world installations, examples from clients in the government, education, healthcare, and enterprise segments were also discussed.
The presentation noted that GigE wireless links "significantly outperform copper based services," and can eliminate recurring leased line costs - unless you enjoy the $5,000 - $15,000 per month hit. If so then this probably isn't the Webinar for you.

The Webinar also showed how to get ROI you can "measure in months, not years," and how to reduce OPEX and use GigE wireless links to implement future-proof network backbone connectivity.
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Broadvox recently announced that Grandstream Networks' GXV3140 is the first IP Multimedia CPE device to deploy with Broadvox GO! SIP Trunking.
The idea, according to officials of both firms, is to "enable Small to Medium Businesses and enterprises to extend the value of IP communications" by adding video and telepresence throughout their organization, with the expectation that such a move would improve productivity, enhance decision-making, and reduce travel costs.

Broadvox officials claim their GO! SIP Trunking "enables businesses to save up to 70 percent a month over their previous TDM systems." In addition the Grandstream GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone lets users add video and multiple features to their calls.

Sergey Galchenko, Chief Technology Officer at Broadvox, explained that by incorporating video, a Web browser, RSS feeds, IM with Yahoo, MSN, and Google, along with music/video streaming, this desktop device and Broadvox's SIP Trunking "deliver a truly complete IP communications system for businesses looking to enhance their network with cost-effective video and telepresence."
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A recent white paper from Amdocs, titled "Leveraging Business Process Management and Service-Oriented Architecture for Agile Business Transformation," presents the market drive behind BPM and SOA, emphasizing "the applicability of these powerful methodologies to the telecommunications industry, demystify some misconceptions behind them, and point to challenges and common pitfalls associated with them," according to the paper's authors.
"Clearly, service providers are managing business processes today. Why isn't their current BPM-only approach helping them achieve greater success?" the white paper asks.
The study finds that "some organizations are managing a heritage of business processes that are poorly designed, or were designed under business assumptions that have changed over the years." Under such a scenario, "error-prone, manual, costly, highly constrained, and lengthy processes are, unfortunately, common phenomena for most service providers."
Among many other helpful observations, the paper outlines a typical BPM implementation lifecycle as "a continuous, productive loop," consisting of the following four phases:
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