July 2010

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F5 & VMware Toronto Event

July 23, 2010

Join Combat & f5 In Toronto Learn how to virtualize your mission-critical applications Breakfast is on us (f5) and by attending you could win a Mini Netbook! Join us for a discussion on How to virtualize your mission-critical applications in your virtual network infrastructure. You’ll learn how to optimize performance, reduce costs, and mitigate the [...]

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The Combat Networks CRM – Your Ticket to Great Service

July 23, 2010

his is a very important site for Combat employees and Clients. It provides a direct portal into Combat support; where you can get the most reliable and timely response to your questions, trouble tickets and MAC requests. Using the portal, or calling the 1-877-9-Combat (1 877 926 6228) number and creating a ticket ensures that your issue is tracked to resolution.

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Avaya Self Funded Roadmap

Avaya’ Self Funded Roadmap

July 21, 2010

Avaya has been very clear about its view of how enterprise telecommunications networks will evolve and migrate to over time. We at Combat Networks happen to agree with their vision and the strategy. Especially for Nortel installed base customers evaluating where to go from here. All things considered (heavily weighted on financial reasons), it makes a lot of sense to migrate to an Avaya Aura architecture in order to preserve the investment in Nortel infrastructure while taking advantage of new features and benefits that Unified Communications can deliver to an enterprise.

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Will Telco’s Exit the Reseller Buisiness?

July 15, 2010
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They’ve had a great run. Even with Deregulation, the Telco’s still managed to hang on to a large portion of the market that supplied and maintained PBXs to private and public sector customers. Even as margins in this market on the supply of the hardware, software and licenses continually declined, the extremely generous margins afforded by long term maintenance contracts and the control of the equipment that lucrative WAN and PSTN services were attached to, the Telco’s saw a benefit to being a Reseller of the equipment.

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IPAD VPN Connectivity

July 14, 2010
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You know IPADs are making their way into the corporate environment when (multiple) customers start asking you how to configure the IPAD for VPN connectivity. Not that we support IPAD issues, but we do support and design VPN concentrators, so to help our here are some details.

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Avaya Data Marketing – WSJ

July 12, 2010

Avaya was doing some marketing in the WSJ this week. The advertisement stands out a little (well quite a bit actually) and does an even better job at calling out some of their competition (Cisco).

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Avaya Aura Integration – Part 2

July 12, 2010
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Moving forward with the installation process it important to identify our existing infrastructure and give you a sense of where we stand today – features, functions, and services that we currently use and depend upon here at Combat. This information will provide you fundamental understanding of “Today @ Combat”

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Understanding Avaya PASS Support

July 6, 2010

If you haven’t heard the term “PASS” during the last 12 months as a user of Nortel/Avaya voice and data hardware you will become familiar with the term going forward. PASS stands for Partner Assurance Support Services. The point of program is fairly straightforward even if there will be some initial confusion about this program. Here’s the background for those that are interested:

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