Unified Communications (UC) is a big buzz word in the world of communications and it’s getting more popular all the time. While UC means different things to different people, generally everyone agrees that it involves getting your communications tools-your office phone, mobile, e-mail, IM, etc.-…

The streets are a little bit safer today as Facebook’s notorious “Spam King” has been indicted on charges of spamming the social networking site. The dastardly criminal, surely one of the planet’s major threats, could face a sentence exceeding 40 years in prison and a…

There is a reason that medium sized businesses are in love with Avaya IP Office: it works. Medium businesses need a hard working phone system just as much as large corporations do. Avaya has taken the lead and come up with Avaya IP Office (version…

A world where people are more connected and communicating presents numerous opportunities to expand the awareness of your company and your brand. Plenty of businesses are starting to take advantage of these options-and reaping the rewards. If you are wondering how you can start taking…

On the phone, online, tweeting, facebooking-in a world of fast-paced communications, how quickly you can get your message across is critical. That’s why you need an elevator pitch. MORE (hot link to rest of article) When you were in high school, you probably dreaded the…

When your network traffic passes through a carrier’s lines, it is no longer a LAN, it is a WAN. A WAN (Wide Area Network) is a network (usually connecting two or more LANs (Local Area Networks)) using carrier lines (telephone company, etc.), satellite links, or…

Buildings today should be wired in accordance with guidelines known as “Structured Cabling“. The basic objective of this system is to minimize future costs for moves and additions, and to maximize availability, reliability, and configurability. The method by which this reliability and cost saving is…

Plenum and Non Plenum refer to two types of cable insulation. A plenum area is a duct, or simply the space above the drop ceiling, from which air is drawn back into the air circulation system. Cable in plenum areas must meet standards for low…

Telecom expenses tend to be large, specialized, and also confusing. They can include a plethora of coding details and pricing programs for a wide variety of services including local, long distance, broadband, data, paging, cellular, as well as maintenance services and various fees, taxes, and…

Ethernet is picking up its growth not necessarily for the speed but the ability to transfer various technologies. Ethernet is actually one of the troublesome innovations of our era. Earlier Ethernet was used to connect home-based computers to gain access to the internetwork; however these…