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Entries from January 2009

Video Conferencing in a Tough Economy

January 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

With all of the economic issues out there today, it is obvious that a lot of companies are looking for ways to save money. One of the most obvious in my estimation is to cut down on travel costs. With the recent improvements in the quality and reliability of video conferencing, quite a few of [...]

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Tags: Network Solutions · Video Conferencing · VoIP

Why do I need to assess my network?

January 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Network assessments and network discovery are a normal and routine part of every VoIP, data infrastructure installation, and as a tool to provide real time information vital to keeping your hard earned IT dollars running at peak performance. 
When deploying a VoIP implementation, a network assessment is vital to the seamless installation and smooth operation [...]

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Tags: Network Solutions · VoIP

ShoreTel VPN Phones

January 24th, 2009 · No Comments

ShoreTel has finally come up with a solution that many of our customers have been requesting for years; the VPN phone.
VPN Phone Solution
The ShoreTel VPN Phone solution provides full IP phone functionality for remote users via a secure VPN connection to the corporate network.

 
Features

Easy to deploy
Simply connect to broadband router at remote location – [...]

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Tags: Network Solutions · VoIP

Need IT support? UniComData can help!

January 24th, 2009 · No Comments

We recently announced that we have become a Dell Certified Partner on their managed IT services platform.  While we have been providing IT support for some time now, we have never formally announced the extent of our service offerings.  In addition to being certified by Dell, we are also Microsoft Certified, are a Microsoft Small Business Specialist, and [...]

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Tags: Managed Hosting · Managed IT Services · Network Solutions · Video Conferencing · VoIP

Adtran Updates

January 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Adtran has some fairly new equipment on the market that will prove to be indispensible for conservation of rack space.  First up are the NetVanta 1534 and 1534 PoE switches, which are 24-port Gigabit Ethernet switches that feature two Gigabit uplink ports. The 1534 series is designed for the LAN closet to bring Gigabit to [...]

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Tags: Network Solutions

The wonderful world of wireless

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Over the last few weeks we have been dealing with installing a wireless bridge solution for one of our customers and I felt compelled to talk about some of the stumbling blocks that seem to pop up when installing point-to-point wireless solutions.
We are using an Adtran Tracer wireless product to provide network connectivity between two [...]

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Tags: Network Solutions

ShoreTel 8.1

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

For those of you on Shoretel 8.0 or Shoretel 8.1, who may want to refresh your Personal Call Manager or phone training, or if you are a new employee who is being introduced to the Shoretel phone system for the first time, have I got a deal for you.  There is web based training available, [...]

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Tags: VoIP