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In an industry where almost all of the major players are trading in the “m”s in their OEM for cloud or software, Biamp stands. They manufacture products that enable communication and they do their manufacturing in the US. Last week they diverted from the usual pattern even further: they expanded their manufacturing footprint, but remained in suburban Portland. In this podcast Graeme Harrison, Executive VP of Marketing walks us through Biamp's very diverse product line and the firm’s mission critical role in many settings, from court rooms to corporate huddle rooms. We learn about the company’s important role in facilitating the type of communication the organization needs. By maintaining their corporate, development and manufacturing locations within a few blocks of each other, the customer is ultimately close to the people actually assembling the product that will be shipped.

More at www.biamp.com

The migration to the cloud opens up immense opportunities for carriers and service providers to offer new services and innovations. The income upside of this revolution is astounding. Sanjay Bhatia, Vice President of Solutions Marketing and Strategy of GENBAND, writes that network functions virtualization (NFV) with a software defined infrastructure (SDI) on a telco cloud is becoming increasingly more desirable amongst CSPs as carriers scramble to meet these challenges.

In this podcast Bhatia describes real time communications media processing in the cloud in the context of NFV, and how GENBAND’s advances are enabling carriers to deliver services that used to take a year or more to implement, in a matter of minutes. We also learn about how GENBAND can offer the same technology at the enterprise level. In every case, the actual end user experience is likely to be greatly improved.

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WebRTC has made the march from the fringe of emerging technology to being at the center of how mainstream enterprises communicate with their customers. WebRTC is the technology that is empowering huge advances in communication, but often gets little public mention. A notable example would be Facebook’s rollout of video chat, which “under the hood” takes advantage of WebRTC. Temasys is a global company that takes the complexity out of using WebRTC to build new inventions. In this podcast Chip Wilcox walks us through the latest news on the WebRTC front, how Temasys is making WebRTC more accessible and how WebRTC powered innovations are changing communication experiences. WebRTC is not only enabling needed links, it may well allow many companies to upgrade and modernize customer care, sales and internal communications.

Visit http://www.temasys.io/

"We deal with a lot of global customers that are looking for one provider to handle all their collaboration needs around the world," says PGi CEO Ted Schrafft. According to Schrafft "PGi is one of the few players that can provide that level of sales and support." PGi is a collaboration software and services company that brings mission critical services to market world wide. The company's clients include well known household name organizations in a diverse number of sectors. In this podcast we learn how PGi, which has operated as a publicly traded company for a quarter of a century, has transitioned to being privately held, and how that transition is enabling PGi to become even more focused on meeting customer needs, while having the capital needed for research and innovation. As many UC and UCaaS enterprise managers preside over migration and change, PGi is positioning itself to be a key partner.

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Miles Jobgen of CompTIA speaks to Don Witt of the Channel Daily News about two new standard reports which were release today – CyberSecurity and Managed Print Providers.

This CompTIA Cybersecurity Channel Standard – based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework – follows the structure of grouping functional areas within five pillars of cybersecurity:

•    Identify

•    Detect

•    Protect

•    Respond

•    Recover

With Cybersecurity being in the news as much as it is currently with the government and the political parties, this is a very timely report that can help companies plan for and improve their Cybersecurity. It should be required reading for Network IT and operations managers. Ultimately, adherence to the guide will help protect your company and its information from security breaches potentially made from ever-changing methods of cyber attackers.

Managed Print - The CompTIA Channel Standard for Managed Print Providers details Intelligent Business practices for managed print service firms. The standard covers the four critical functions: business generation, delivery and operations, customer relations and business direction.

For more information and to download the reports go to: https://www.comptia.org/

Unimax, a familiar name to many Telecom Reseller readers, offers a family of products designed to reduce complexity and cost to managing voice networks. Unimax offers 2nd Nature (unified MACD administration), LineOne (self-service MACD portal), HelpOne (help desk MACD portal), (phone number management), Spotlight (advanced UC and voice system reporting) and more. In this podcast Phil Moen, President and CEO at Unimax Systems Corp, walks us through Unimax's latest offering and how the company coninues to be a favoroty among Cisco users looking for way to make the task of managing their networks easier as they move through he migration process. Moen tells us about his companies to bring together multi-vendor environments and how products such as NumberPro, replace manual and error prone methods. "Unimax solves management problems," says Moen, with Unimax being the only company anywhere offering products that help prevent easy to make voice network management errors. Moen also outlines how the migration towards Skype for Business can be made smoother with Unimax.

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Spirent does network testing at a time when network testing is more mission critical than ever. According to Neil Holmquist Vice President of Marketing & Product Strategy, a world without network testing is a world where migrations, and even simple, moves, adds and upgrade are done blind and the law of unintended consequences is running wild. In this podcast we learn how Spirent brings a family of products to challenge, and about its newest product CloudStress, a synthetic workload generator that can simulate physical footprint of any virtual machine to help validate your NFVi or cloud deployments. Literally, Spirent can predict an issue before it actually happens. That proactive posture save money customers and more.

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SevOne provides the only infrastructure performance monitoring platform engineered to deliver real time reporting. That level of reporting allows companies such as varied, but as connection dependent at as HBO, Comcast and CreditSuisse to prevent outages. In this podcast Vess Bakalov, Founder, EVP and Chief Technology Officer discusses how his company became a vital resources for many of the world's leading carrier and technology firms, including many household names. Bakalov looks at products in demand by Cisco users and outlines the firm's partner program, where deep knowledge of the partner's technologies is a critical component. We learn how split second monitoring is critical not only to high visibility giants like a fixed line carrier but to much smaller enterprises.

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Networks don't live in isolation. They manage data inside a company that has infrastructure that also must be managed. Since 1904, Legrand has been helpings its customers manage power, light, and as time and technology evolved, information. Now, as Yann Morvan, Director of Product Management of Legrand Data Communications, sees the convergence of  power, light and data as an emerging challenge and opportunity. In this podcast we learn about Legrand's offerings for Cisco customers and some new developments. We also learn the importance of understanding the networks within the larger context of an enterprise's other critical infrastructure systems.

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As the mega trend of cloud migration carries on, paying attention to how the enterprise manages power to its network is more critical than ever, and that places Eaton at an important place for Cisco users. Eaton is a power management company that can help enterprises manage a traditional on prem network, while it offers products and services for enterprises that are virtualizing their networks. In this podcast we learn more about Eaton's newest offering and programs for partner companies. Elizabeth Bagnas, Alliances Manager at Eaton, walks us through their newly announced Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) software version 1.53 which provides information technology (IT) managers with improved protection for data center IT equipment through integration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) OneView and new functionality with the OpenStack management platform. Bagnas also tells us about its new RS Enclosure, designed to simplify installation and configuration of vital data center equipment. We also learn about Eaton's new partner certification program and new opportunities to grow with power management.

Visit www.powerquality.eaton.com/USA