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What's SIP Got to Do With It? Five Compelling Reasons Why SIP Will Dominate Enterprise IP Telephony

Enterprises are rapidly recognizing the value of world wide IP communications integrated with simple, secure, standards-based, applications-rich—IP messaging, IP conferencing, IP contact centers, and IP mobility solutions—implementations and services. This paper offers five compelling reasons that these organizations are looking to Session Initiation Protocol as the standard on which to build their productivity-enhancing and cost-reducing converged networks.

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White Papers

Taking the Guesswork Out of Deploying IP Telephony

Assessment services take the guesswork out of IP telephony deployments. Understand the various approaches to deploying IP telephony, how voice traffic differs from data and the tests that are available to prevent unexpected costs and post installation issues.

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Managing Peer-to-Peer Traffic in Network Environments

In a relatively short amount of time, the "killer app" of the Internet has evolved from e-mail to Web browsers to peer-to-peer. The ability to digitize music and video, combined with the ability to easily obtain these digital files freely, has transformed peer-to-peer applications into the most popularly downloaded software on the Internet. Kazaa Media Desktop, one of the most popular peer-to-peer applications, claims an installed base of over 60 million. Reports from Kazaa show users have downloaded the application more than 200 million times. Logging into the Kazaa network on a typical day displays a network of 4 to 5 millions users (FastTrack), sharing thousands of petabytes of data (one petabyte equals 1,000 terabytes). This amount of transferred data can completely choke a network, consuming all available bandwidth. Recent studies suggest that peer-to-peer traffic can consume up to 60% of a service provider's network.

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Introduction to Wireless Switching

Until recently, management and security concerns have frequently limited wireless networking to small and home office environments. A wireless switching solution can enable organizations of all sizes to overcome the limits of first-generation wireless LANs. Wireless switching delivers a robust combination of user-based management, strong centralized control and network wide security policies.

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Case Studies

Kyonggi University

Kyonggi University needed significantly greater throughput throughout its nine-building Seoul campus in order to meet its growing need for fast, reliable network access even as it introduced bandwidth-hungry applications. By selecting the Switch 8800, 3Com's highest-performance core switch, Kyonggi University delivers ultra-high-speed connectivity to thousands of faculty, staff and students at once.

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Ministry of Defence, U.K.

The MoD needed a powerful new network with the speed and scalability to deliver secret high applications over the next decade. It also had to be easy to deploy so the agency could implement it within its tight schedule. The new Switch 8800 and edge systems not only met their performance and delivery requirements, it provided cost savings of 33%, which enabled investment in other areas originally outside the scope of the project.

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Mexican Congress

To give legislators the tools they require for more responsive government, the National Congress needed a high-performance infrastructure that spanned its buildings to permit fast data retrieval. The congress deployed a VCX IP telephony solution in its data center, integrating the government on a common, function-rich voice-over-IP (VoIP) infrastructure. The ease of deployment and management of the VCX IP telephony solution is providing the congress with substantial cost savings.

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