WebDAV access to file storage and file store ACLs
eDisc (File sharing), making the server essentially a FileServer that customers can access any time, any place

File store subscription
Allows to “subscribe” to others’ files and file store folders

AIRSYNC improvements
Extends AIRSYNC support, so now you can sync two business phones with a more accurate synchronization algorithm

Personal contact details propagation
Extends XMPP supports, making it possible to broadcast your contact details changes (including photo or avatar) to other XIMSS/XMPP users

Calendar Publication
WebCals, a powerful way to Publish or Subscribe to Calendars even if the other party is on Exchange, Notes, or using a Mac

Multi-Party IM
Multi-party IM, or “chat rooms” for groupware and improved team collaboration

HD Voice
Support for HD Voice using iSAC codecs from Global IP Solutions

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As the battle for the elusive SMB customer moves into FMC, this whitepaper looks at how HD Voice can differentiate and add value to the network operators’ offerings for business subscribers.

HD Voice is a revolution in telephony that has been decades in the making, and now with virtually ubiquitous high speed internet access, VoIP has found its place. VoIP no longer needs to be considered a cheap or toll-dodging alternative, with HD Voice the value is clear.

To download the White Paper press here

Product release includes over 100 new exciting features, including:

• HD Voice: Experience the new standard of voice communications, with exceptional, high definition clarity.
• Pronto ! 3.0: Including a redesigned user interface, improved chat and calling features and exciting new features such as social networking and Twitter .
• eDisk: Secure file-sharing with industry standard access from PC, Mac and Linux operating systems (WebDAV protocol is implemented).
• Calendar Sharing: Subscribe and publish calendars with colleagues, partners and customers over the internet and mobile networks
• Business Grade IM: Reliable, secure instant messaging with chat room and conversation history.

Some of the highlights for the Business focused products (MessagePlus, VoicePlus for the SMB):

High Definition Voice in both MessagePlus and VoicePlus
Dramatically improved features and usability in Pronto! 3.0, including social networking, Twitter and hundreds of other improvements
VoicePlus now includes a 0x2 cluster configuration as standard and brand new, intuitive user interfaces for self care and domain administration

Starting with a definition of DPI, the white paper explores the DPI application and dispells some of the misconceptions surrounding “net neutrality” and privacy concerns. The potential impact of DPI applications on society is also considered.

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The new devices replace PRX-1000 and PRX-1G Traffic Managers. ipoque’s PRX Traffic Manager offers network operators a comprehensive and costeffective bandwidth management solution, enabling them to monitor and control network traffic per application and per subscriber. The solution makes network activities more transparent and is able to prioritize, shape, and optimize classified traffic and helps institutions of all sectors to keep up with the challenges of growing Internet traffic in their networks. PRX Traffic Manager series ranges from the small PRX-20 with 40 Mbit/s throughput to the carrier-grade PRX-10G with proven 75 Gbit/s performance.

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The new DSS V6 storage management software, with a new architecture, user interface and with more advanced functionality than previous versions, can be easily downloaded from Open-E’s website and installed to any media including internal HDD, RAID Array, USB, SATA and IDE DOM (Disk-On-Module), or any other bootable media.

The Open-E Data Storage Software V6 (DSS V6) is a unified file and block storage management operating system (OS) that offers Network Attached Storage (NAS), iSCSI, InfiniBand and Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) functionality, while providing superior performance, security, and scalability at a fraction of the cost of alternative storage offerings. Advanced features of Open-E DSS V6 include Data and Volume Replication, Volume Snapshot, Automatic Failover for iSCSI Volumes, WORM and NDMP and built-in virus protection. Designed to be versatile and flexible to support a wide variety of hardware RAID platforms from the industry’s leading vendors, Open-E DSS V6 allow users to combine NAS systems with iSCSI SAN systems, while enabling the connection of multiple Network Interface Controllers, including Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand. The Open-E DSS V6 supports logical volumes greater than 16TB. The software is available with standard license capacity of 4, 8, and 16TB. Extension keys can be purchased to add additional storage capacities from 2TB to 64TB.

With over 12,000 installations, in over 90 countries, Open-E data storage solutions are used by Fortune 500 customers world-wide, including Lufthansa, Raymond James, Siemens, Samsung, Alcatel-Lucent and Vodafone.

The 10Gbps+ APV6200 series is built on Array’s patent pending SpeedCore™ architecture that takes the mature ArrayOS feature set to a new level. The 2U form factor APV6200 series, utilizing the SpeedCore Architecture, offers the highest Layer 4-7 throughput per watt combined with the lowest cost per megabit of Layer 4-7 traffic processed and lowest cost per SSL transaction offloaded on the market. Consuming no more than 330 watts, the APV6200 is the greenest ADC product available in the 10Gbps+ class.

The APV6200 series is optimized for emerging Web 2.0 applications, multi-media services and hosted cloud centric applications. The products have superb performance to empower service providers and enterprises to quickly roll out content rich multi-media and enterprise applications to a large user base with fewer servers, thereby maximizing investments in application delivery infrastructure. End users get an uncompromised experience without service interruption.

For more information about the APV6200 series press here

ersion 8 capabilities and features are identical across the three deployment alternatives:

• the same Backup Agents are used across all three, giving administrators the flexibility to evolve their servers without modifying their agent machines
• complementary products like Arkeia’s Backup Replication and Arkeia’s Central Management Server work seamlessly across all three backup server deployments, making these advanced capabilities easy to deploy and use
• a consistent and enhanced user interface across deployments means no new learning curve when deployment modes change 

Compared to Arkeia Network Backup v7 and earlier versions, version 8 comes with the following enhancements:

• Virtualized Environment Support
• Introduction of a virtual appliance for ESX and ESXi
• Introduction of a VMware ESX Server agent
• Enhanced Graphical User Interfaceo    Backup Schedule Calendar introduction
• Reorganization of the Menu for a better ergonomy
• Client-server communication simplification with stronger security
• Remove the dependency of name resolution (FQDN)
• Allows the client to connect to the backup server via IP
• Allows the backup server to connect to the client via IP
• Allows Arkeia to bind to a specific IP
• Enhanced handling of client hostname change
• Enhanced software installation options (DNS or IP)
• Lack of client licenses no longer stops the entire backup job if a new client is added
• Enhanced reporting
• Enhanced Alerts logging to the end user
• Enhanced backup error reporting to the end user
• Wiki-based technical documentation
• New platforms supported including SLES 11 and Mandriva 2009 Spring

• delivers all the functionality of Arkeia Network Backup v8.0 as a system image for a VMware virtual machine
• comes bundled with licenses for a disk-based virtual tape library (VTL) and Arkeia Backup
• can be deployed in both VMware ESX and ESXi virtual environments
• can be rapidly deployed and enables companies to take full advantage of virtualization benefits such as high-availability, load-balancing, and storage provisioning 

Both the virtual appliance and the ESX agent are available for download from here

AA Credit Union uses Array’s TMX1100 for load balancing, thereby ensuring that resources are distributed to the proper server when it is overloaded, and also solving redundancy and failover issues. Four hundred tellers currently use the AA Credit Union system for financial transactions and 200,000 members use its Web site for home-banking services. With the high volume of traffic crossing the system, it is essential to provide a reliable Web site and network architecture for immediate and persistent connections to ensure transactions are efficiently and securely completed.

“The TMX1100 is now a critical part of our teller activities as well as members’ home-banking services, and we are very impressed by the performance,” said Thomas Wilde, systems analyst at AA Credit Union. “Array’s product provides a fault-tolerant solution that is reliable and time-saving. We are able to keep our applications up and running securely with minimal downtime.”

The SSL encryption feature of TMX1100 enables AA Credit Union to encrypt PCs to load balancers. This provides an additional layer of information protection, ensuring all banking transactions are secure, which is critical in the financial industry.

Building on its reputation as the data protection leader of the open systems market, Arkeia Software announced support for Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Arkeia Software reiterates that way  its leadership as the broadest supporter for open source operating systems and applications. In addition to Linux, Arkeia supports other open source operating systems including OpenSolaris and the BSD family.

Arkeia Software supports both backup servers and backup agents on 100 Linux platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Open Enterprise Server, Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Slackware, PCLinuxOS, CentOS and Fedora.

Cable Bahamas branded its new Unified Communications platform “CoralWave Pronto!.” The SaaS offering was launched with a first modular offering, bringing e-mail, instant messaging, VideoMail and calendaring to all its subscribers immediately. CoralWave is already planning a second roll-out of Pronto! modules for Value Added Service in early 2009, including My Stuff, where CoralWave subscribers can create their own personal storage of Rich Media, playback their favorite music and view family photo albums all via the web 2.0 client CoralWave Pronto!.

“This is one of the most dynamic online platforms we’ve seen for Unified Communications and online living,” says David Burrows, Director of Marketing. “Imagine a world where all the functions you need for online living come in one seamless, integrated interface. Imagine a world where, when you log in to check your email, you gain automatic access to your photographs, your contacts, your calendar, your music, your video email, and your instant messages while you drag and drop your photographs into your own personal web space and blog about your day, all while listening to your music. This is what our customers will have access to with CoralWave Pronto!. We are very excited to bring this innovation to our subscribers.”

“When building a UC as SaaS offering, there are some key criteria to meet: Multi-tenancy, high density, scalability, reliability and a very intuitive web 2.0 client,” says Sophia Walker, Director of Information Technology. “CommuniGate Pro and Pronto! met all these critical points and exceeded our core requirements.”

“Increasing customer loyalty with value added services is the way Network Operators of tomorrow need to go now,” explains Jon R. Doyle, VP Business Development CommuniGate Systems. “Cable Bahamas puts itself in a perfect position to remain the leading provider in the Bahamas by reducing churn rates and placing value on top of its access products.”

Click here http://www.cablebahamas.com/Pronto/ to find out CoralWave Pronto!.

Peplink Balance multi-WAN routers allow customers to easily combine multiple Internet services from different providers. As new generation of broadband Internet such as DOCSIS 3.0, FTTB becomes readily available, Peplink Balance 210 and 310 will meet business’ new bandwidth requirement without giving up Internet reliability. Because of Peplink’s advanced failover and load balancing algorithms, businesses can easily substitute their existing high-cost dedicated Internet to a combination of low-cost connections. Peplink’s enterprise-class Internet link balancing technology has received rave reviews for ease of use, stability and affordable pricing.

“Internet link balancing and failover used to be complicated and expensive. Many businesses still rely on a single Internet connection. Whenever there is a service outage, all you could do is to wait and complain. This is not true anymore,” said Keith Chau, General Manager at Peplink. “Customers can now subscribe to Internet services from any provider and combine them easily with our devices, not to mention the cost savings when they change from expensive dedicated Internet to regular DSL or Cable! If one of the Internet services goes down, the system administrator will be notified but other users will not notice a thing.”

VPN Load Balancing and Failover, All Protected with 256-bit AES

Peplink is also shipping firmware 4.6, which provides the industry first Multi-Site VPN Load Balancing. Multi-Site VPN Load Balancing enables businesses to easily connect multiple locations with the highest reliability possible by leveraging multiple low cost Internet connections at each site.

Peplink Balance 210/310 and Firmware 4.6 are immediately available. VPN Load Balancing and Failover feature is available for 210/310 and other business-class models.

Following extensive testing, British Airways chose the CommuniGate Pro Dynamic cluster solution for its 99.999% uptime, and its ease of customization and administration for its global messaging solution. After a successful rollout across British Airways’ global front-line workforce, everyone at the airline is connected via e-mail. Corporate and departmental news and information is now sent more quickly than ever to a wider range of employees. This has resulted in consistent messages going to everyone at the same time.

British Airways empowers employees with corporate e-mail via CommuniGate Pro. CommuniGate Pro provides email to over 30,000 mobile employees at British Airways to simplify corporate-wide communications.

In choosing a messaging solution appropriate for its worldwide work force, it was important that it be secure, flexible and have the ability to customize the look and feel to keep the British Airways brand. CommuniGate Pro Dynamic cluster architecture fit the profile.

Backup Replication is integrated with Arkeia EdgeFort appliances and Arkeia Network Backup software and enables data transferability from one location to another. Backup Replication also offers duplication of data coming from total, incremental, and differential backups. Arkeia’s Backup Replication provides organizations that have distributed data bulletproof redundancy and recoverability.

“Arkeia’s Backup Replication works seamlessly with Arkeia Network Backup,” said Pierre Vanacker, Director of New Technology at Airborne Mobile, a mobile application company. “Managing Backup Replication jobs is easily scheduled through the Web interface and it ensures that data in my remote locations is also backed up in my datacenter.”

Integration with Arkeia Network Backup software and EdgeFort all-in-one appliances means companies can pick the optimum location for backup jobs to reside, and automate the movement of the data. Companies can backup to disk locally, archive to tape locally, and replicate offsite to another location or data center all within the same interface and scheduling tool, the company said.

“Companies need to protect data across their organization, especially in remote locations,” said Dave Elliott, GM Americas & Asia at Arkeia Software. “With the release of Backup Replication, companies can seamlessly move backup data from site to site, such as from a remote office to a corporate data center.”

Backup Replication is available now and can be purchased as an addition to Arkeia EdgeFort or Arkeia Network Backup, the company noted in a release.

Higher Internet Reliability and Lower Operating Expenses

‘With the current market conditions, Internet reliability has never been more important’, commented Keith Chau, General Manager at Peplink, ‘any email outage, disconnects with your sales force, road warriors or business partners are not acceptable. Companies simply can’t take the risk of losing any business now.’ Reliability and costs are not always growing in proportion. ‘By replacing the expensive leased line with multiple low-cost DSL/Cable broadband links, companies actually get higher reliability and more bandwidth with lower operating expenses!’

Balance 20L and Balance 390 Extend and Complete Peplink’s Product Line

The Balance 20L appeals to home users as the only affordable dual-WAN router on the market powered by enterprise-grade software to provide maximum stability and reliability for even power home users. The Balance 390 is a high performance triple-WAN, all-Gigabit router with enough power, 250Mbps, for next-generation, high speed Internet services such as FiOS, DOCSIS 3.0, or 4G Mobile broadband, ideal for large businesses at a legitimate price. No matter what your needs are, the Balance 20L and Balance 390 will increase your performance and decrease your costs.

For more information on the Peplink’s Balance 20L and Balance 390, as well as their complete line of multi-WAN routers, please visit www.peplink.com

“With Pronto! 2.0 you have a powerful platform for e-mail, chat, voice calls and media and entertainment delivery—all utilizing the web. You are not just tied to your home or work PC anymore. You can access this information anywhere and anytime.”

Additionally, Pronto! 2.0 utilizes the power of Adobe AIR, which enables web developers to extend rich Internet applications to the desktop, delivering a more engaging digital experience and addressing key limitations of traditional web applications. Users can open separate windows for Pronto! functions, including IM, calendars, e-mail, and voice, to configure the desktop that works for them. Pronto! 2.0 supports drag-and-drop operations for a more familiar and natural way to save and add attachments from e-mail.

Media and entertainment also gets a big boost with Pronto! 2.0. With the latest H.264 and AAC codecs supporting HD Video capabilities in Adobe Flash Player 9 and AIR, Pronto! 2.0 delivers a powerful high-quality viewing experience over the Internet. Extending Flash Media Interactive Server 3 with CommuniGate Pro’s advanced server API’s and plugins enables Pronto! to help network providers protect and deliver licensed content from Content owners to more consumers with a universal experience regardless of platform.

”Pronto! 2.0 covers all forms of communication apart from the signals smoke! Now we have included the systems of high clarity and the applications of entertainment, adds Doyle. ”The video in the internet becomes more important, and Pronto! 2.0 presents it’s endless possibilities for the multimedia applications.

Pronto! is available today as an open and free service in www.TalktoIP.com where users can take Pronto! for a test drive. Moreover, an installable version is located at  www.communigate.com