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F5 & VMware Toronto Event

by Adam DaCosta

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

by Troy Johnson

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

by Combat Joe

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?

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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

by Adam DaCosta

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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Understanding Avaya PASS Support

by admin

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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Nortel Products EOL – Nortel End of Life

by Adam DaCosta

We receive a lot of questions from the community with regards to Nortel EOL products and updates. To help facilitate Avaya’s announcements and upcoming products here is a list of recent known product EOL releases to date provided through this blog:

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Why is Everybody talking about f5?

by bkey

[singlepic id=2 w=320 h=240 float=center]We’ve noticed that lately F5 is getting a lot of press and just about anybody looking at Application Delivery Networking is bringing up their name when we talk with them. Our impression is that since Nortel sold off Alteon, it left a gap in the market that has quickly been filled [...]

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CS1000 4.0 & 4.5 MD July 1, 2010

by Adam DaCosta

As of July 1 2010, the software release of 4.0 and 4.5 for the Cs1K will not be available for any software expansion.

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Combat Toronto Office

by Adam DaCosta

Combat is excited to announce our next step in building a national service offering with the recent investment in opening a Toronto sales and service office.

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