This video is a condensed version of Adcap’s popular SIP Trunking seminar that we have been conducting for years to good size audiences. Adcap engineers have been working with our customers on implementing SIP trunks since 2006. This video discusses the main reasons why organizations that have more than 100 phone systems users typically choose [...]
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Last Updated: November 18th, 2011 |
Most corporations that are replacing their telephone systems are changing over from traditional PBX systems to VoIP based systems. There are many good phone systems available, all of which have excellent features and straightforward manageability, but they all have the downside that the equipment has to be installed and managed at the office. Because of [...]
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Last Updated: January 16th, 2012 |
Mid-size and large organizations are entering another cycle of Local Area Network upgrades due to two recent technology changes. One is that 10Gb Ethernet are now standard connections on servers. The other is the widespread adoption of wireless devices like the iPad that has put a strain on Wireless Local Area Networks. This is forcing [...]
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Last Updated: January 16th, 2012 |
Most organizations use single-factor authentication to provide security to important information and resources. That is now being recognized to be insufficient to protect sensitive data from loss due to malicious hacking activity. Hackers use advanced dictionary attacks, social engineering, and key-logging to obtain the passwords they need to remotely enter systems and steal sensitive data [...]
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Last Updated: January 16th, 2012 |
Last week I was putting together a design for a 120 user phone system, with a requirement for 35 call center agents, when I came across a different requirement I had not seen before: The customer only wanted phones that could use wireless headset adapters that did not use handset lifters. Having been in the [...]
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Last Updated: January 16th, 2012 |
Data storage requirements for every company grow larger every year, and the data storage costs grow with them. Unfortunately, storage arrays and storage area networks (SAN) have become a larger portion of the Information Technology budget every year as well. Companies that are looking for lower priced, higher performance alternatives to a traditional SAN now [...]
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Last Updated: May 6th, 2011 |
A high Level Explanation of Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) For more videos, check out my youtube channel by clicking the link bellow: Networking Technologies Explained Author: Michael Cavanaugh, CCIE Voice & Route/Switch
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Last Updated: February 9th, 2011 |
Small businesses have the advantage of being able to make decisions and take action more quickly than big businesses in order to seize a market advantage. One of the most rapidly evolving areas of competitive advantages is in communications. Advanced cellphones and VoIP phone systems have enabled businesses to communicate better internally, with customers, and [...]
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Last Updated: February 9th, 2011 |
It has been a long time since Cisco released zone based firewalling for the ISR. They have been “threatening” to take away my CBAC for some time, happily they still haven’t done it, but the writing is on the wall. So I guess it is time I discuss this change and show an example or [...]
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Last Updated: February 3rd, 2011 |
New technology is great for organizations. It lets users be more productive, allows for cost savings, and keeps the company ahead of their competitors by allowing them to provide better customer service. Experienced network administrators, however, know that the more advanced technology gets the more difficult it is to keep it running. A managed [...]
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Last Updated: November 18th, 2011 |