Technology Insights

Nortel Lifecycle Update for ERS 8691SF – Pre-Notification Manufacture Discontinue

February 10, 2010

Background: The Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8691 SF/CPU, 8616SXE, 8632TXE, 8616GTE, 8648TXE, 8608SXE, 8624FXE, 8608GBE, 8608GTE, 8632TXM, 8648TXM, 8608GBM, 8608GTM, 8672ATME, 8672ATMM, 8683POSM modules are to be declared Manufacturing Discontinue effective either Dec 31, 2009 or Apr 30, 2010. [singlepic id=27 w=320 h=240 float=left]Manufacture Discontinued (MD) applies to products, releases, and associated design documentation that [...]

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Nortel – Avaya BCM Update: New Release 2nd Half of 2010

February 9, 2010

BCM Roadmap Update: Good news — We can confirm that there will be another release of Business Communication Manager (BCM) from its new owner Avaya. Avaya has stated that a new release of BCM will be made available during the second half of calendar 2010. While the market and customers have been speculating and recieving updates from [...]

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Combat Networks Personified – JOE COMBAT

February 9, 2010

[singlepic id=30 w=320 h=800 float=left] Meet Joe Combat, Joe Combat is everything Combat Networks! Value, integrity, determined and is dedicated to his field of Communications.� Joe Combat is technically certified to the highest level (Just like Combat Networks) and has gone through rigorous training, and most importantly, Joe is here to help you design, integrate [...]

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IPv4 vs IPv6: How to have your cake and eat it too

January 28, 2010

Combat is pleased to have Lori Mac Vittie, Technical Marketing Manager join Combat Networks this week as a guest writer to dicuss IPV6. How are you preparing for IPV6?

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Avaya @ Vitrine Technologique – Quebec City with Combat Networks

January 25, 2010

Join Combat Networks and our Partners Avaya & F5 at Quebec City’s Vitrine Technologique Feb, 16th for a technology Overview.

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F5 – Load Balancing a Single Server?

January 20, 2010

Now, not many of you reading this article will have a single server, and would be more concerned about managing many, many of them. But what is interesting about the article is that demonstrating F5′s capaibilies while adressing one single server…

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Unified Communications – Avaya

January 18, 2010

Here is a great video on what unifying communications can accomplish. The best part about this video is that it is not fictional! /Combat

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Saving Energy – 2010 Plan (No Jitter Blog)

January 15, 2010

Following is quick article from No-Jitter on Saving Energy and making in part of your overall business strategy!  While there is alot of attention on ‘Green’, ‘Saving Energy’ and ‘Greening IT’.  How focused is your company on energy savings as a whole? Is it part of a new policy? An organizational objective?   The article prvovides a synopsis of  [...]

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Announcing the Avaya/Nortel Enterprise Solutions Integrated Portfolio Roadmap

January 11, 2010

We’re announcing the new Avaya/Nortel Enterprise Solutions Integrated Roadmap. Join us Tuesday, January 19th, 1pm EST I am pleased to announce that Avaya has completed the acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions (NES) and Nortel Government Solutions. We want to welcome you as a customer—and thank you for your business. We are committed to continuing to [...]

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Jumbo Frames… Is bigger better?

December 21, 2009

Jumbo frames are like a double quarter pounder, more meat with less bun overhead. (Jumbo frames typically refer to Ethernet frames with larger than the standard 1500 byte payload and are a feature of Gigabit Ethernet.) It sounds great in principle but there are caveats.   For jumbo frames to work without issues the end devices [...]

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