An international voice, data and video communication solutions provider headquartered in Paris today unveiled upgrades to products that help large enterprises make more money while helping workers improve productivity and customer service. Officials at Alcatel-Lucent say their so-called “Corporate Communications Solutions” include unified communications and contact center solutions that help large business customers use data virtualization with increased scalability and centralization in the network.

Ingram's Invitational Event to Include UC, VoIP, Data Capture Partners

VoIP Providers'' Needs are Changing over Time

Cisco Systems Inc.'s push into the cloud and collaboration will force the networking professional of the future to tackle convergence and an ever-increasing domain. Convergence is the move of various applications, including communications like voice and video and even Software as a Service, to an all-IP infrastructure. The integration of these technologies with IP has happened at a dizzying rate, with networking leader Cisco's strategy not always making sense to those outside -- or even inside -- the company.

To determine the best telephone system for your company, expert Matt Brunk suggests devising a UC strategy.

Learn the three most common VoIP and UC installation issues, and what expert Matt Brunk suggests you do to avoid them.

In a message to the VOIPSEC mailing list over the weekend, Mark Collier announced the release of a new suite of VoIP security test tools. Mark, as you may recall, is the co-author with (VOIPSA Chair) David Endler of the book “Hacking Exposed: VoIP” and as part of the book publication he and Dave made available a series of voip security tools through their hackingvoip.com website.

The case for VoIP is clear: Converged networks offer businesses tremendous advantages in cost savings, greater flexibility and increased application capabilities.

Learn which simulators you can use to simulate voice over IPSec VPNs in this advice from our network security expert.

Beijing PowerUnique Technologies announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver solutions to mutual customers.