The Lippis Report

April 11th, 2007

By Avaya

The adoption of Internet Protocol-based telephony (IPT) for branch locations has increased markedly in recent years with quality and reliability better than TDM telephony. IPT offers many business benefits such as lower costs, simplified management and greater flexibility to add communications applications that enable enterprises to better serve their customers, improve the productivity of their workers and operate more efficiently.

IPT systems often lower trunking costs, reduce or eliminate conferencing costs, and lower cabling costs. This paper presents a TCO framework analyzing an IPT solution for branch offices, and provides real life examples of how companies and institutions are taking advantage of Avaya IPT solutions to lower their branch communications costs.

April 10th, 2007

Inbar Lasser-Raab Cisco’s Director of Marketing for Enterprise Routing joins the Lippis Report podcast to discuss strategies to extend your networked business platform to branch offices. The economy has forced businesses to be closer to customers, prompting leaders to shift resources into branch offices. Branch office employees demand the same level of IT services as headquarter offices. Branch offices are spread out over large geographic distances driving up wide area network and operational cost; challenging IT solutions with low bandwidth and spotty support. But there are winning strategies that eliminate these traditional trade-offs. Hear about them by downloading this podcast.

April 2nd, 2007

IPS, SIMs and NBAD devices will evolve into a post-NAC monitoring function. Their days as single function devices are over. NAC is an architecture and approach to internal thread defense and not a fancy way to authenticate a user and their end point. NAC will subsume IPS, SIM and NBAD functionality into an overall IT security architecture. I explain my thinking in this Lippis Report podcast.