Bridging Time, Connecting Lives: History Of Video Conferencing
Once upon a time, video conferencing did not exist. If you want to speak to several people, you'd have to climb up the apex of a hill and loudly invite them to visit your cornfield. While therapeutic and easy, shouting can, nevertheless, be exhausting. Soon, people grew tired of shouting, so they tried communicating by telegraph. However, talking by clicking sounds was not very user-friendly. For a while,the telephone seemed the best solution. The invention of the television, however, opened the doors to better and even more dramatic means for communication. It was not long before video conferencing was developed, and in time, it became the most virtual form of person-to-person communication. Ironically, the history of video conferencing di...
TiVerity Receives Award for deployment of Cisco's Unified Customer Voice Portal with Enterprise Queue
Technology Managers Forum (www.techforum.com), the professional association for enterprise IT managers headquartered in New York City, has announced the winners of its 12th annual Best Practice Awards program. The Technology Innovation category had two First Place winners this year: The Internal Revenue Service with vendor partners AT&T Government Solutions and TiVerity Consulting, Inc (www.TiVerity.com), and Black Board with vendor partner Scalent.
TiVerity Achieves Select Certification from Cisco USA
TiVerity is proud to announce today that it has achieved Select Certification from Cisco®.
NetQoS Integrates with Cisco WAAS to Deliver End-to-End Application Response Time Reporting for WAN Optimization
NetQoS® Inc. is working with Cisco® to develop a management interface for accurate end-to-end application response time measurement for WAN optimization. Integrated in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) devices, the software will allow IT organizations to accurately validate the results of WAN optimization deployments.
Polycom Appoints VCOMM as UK Distributor of Business VoIP Phones
Polycom has appointed VCOMM (UK) Limited ("VCOMM"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Coms plc, as UK distributor for the award-wining Polycom SoundPoint® range of VoIP business phones. Coms aims to make the Polycom business VoIP phones as pervasive in the UK as they are throughout offices and boardrooms in the United States.
IE is First Company to Achieve Cisco Certification as Authorized Technology Partner for Outdoor Wireless MESH (ATP v2)
Internetwork Engineering (IE) is the first to receive Cisco certification as an Authorized Technology Partner for Outdoor Wireless MESH (MESH ATP v2). Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking, uses its ATP designation to recognize demonstrated leaders in emerging technologies. Outdoor Wireless MESH is a new technology solution addressing emerging markets including municipal Wi-Fi and government and private sector campus applications.
Cisco CCNA Certification: The Hidden Details Of Telnet
Telnet is a simple yet powerful program that allows you to connect to a remote Cisco router or switch, and then configure it as though you were right at the console. Telnet is also one of those features that seems so very simple, until you get asked a half dozen questions about it on your CCNA exams.
Cisco Awards EXPEDITE PLUS 2007 Excellence in Transportation and Logistics Award
Prestigous Cisco award presented to Expedite Plus for responsiveness needed to deliver material in the shortest timeframes available. Victor Deschenes, CEO of Expedite Plus, confirms that the recognition shows that Expedite Plus is succeeding at their goal of providing great shipping and logistic services on a large scale.
Competition, Telecommunications and Our Country's Prosperity
Let's review briefly what competition today has done for us. We have long-distance prices that are 50 percent lower than they were 10 years ago. We have fiber-optic network, four bands of it, across the country. We have tremendous capacity for transmission of digital signals over this fiber-optic network. We have an explosion of products in computers, in telephone equipment, in faxes, in voice mail, in all of the products that just 10 years ago we as consumers couldn't even imagine.
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