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**** DECEMBER 2007 ****
Welcome to Comms Connect's industry newsletter. Our aim is to provide you (our resellers) with relevant and up to date industry news and developments from our sales/technical departments and our vendors.
News
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Network Equipment Technologies Completes Acquisition of Quintum Technologies
Acquisition Expands NET’s Portfolio of Enterprise Voice Solutions - Fremont, December 5 2007
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: NWK), a global provider of multi-service network exchange solutions for enterprise and government customers, today announced that on December 4, 2007, it completed the acquisition of Quintum Technologies, a leading enterprise VoIP access switching and gateway solutions provider. Pursuant to the acquisition agreement announced previously, NET acquired all of the outstanding shares of Quintum for a total equity value of $41 million, comprised of $20.5 million in cash and 1,732,274 shares of NET stock.
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CommsConnect live demo to evaluate PortaOne CONFERENCE BRIDGE solution is available upon request.
Please contact sales@commsconnect.com.au to register for a demonstration.
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CommsConnect, live demo to evaluate PortaOne all types of CALLBACK solutions are available upon request.
Please contact sales@commsconnect.com.au to register for a demonstration.
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Sales Information
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PortaBridge - Conferencing server
PortaBridge is a conferencing server that provides a capability for many users to communicate through the phone at the same time. PortaBridge creates an excellent way for ITSPs to stand out and improve the bottom line with a new service offering. From your customers prospective, it allows them to enjoy teleconferencing, inviting up to 40 callers in one virtual conference room to discuss common business project, conduct a seminar or training, and just chat between friends and relatives.
Although PortaBridge is a separate product and requires a separate server to run on, it is an integral part of PortaUM and is available for our PortaUM clients only.
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Technical Information
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Increasing the performance of your PortaSIP
If your PortaSIP needs to serve large numbers of proxied calls, ie SipUAs behind NATs/Firewalls. Then the recommendation would be to use a seperate physical server for dedicated RTP proxying (standard option in MR16)
If your PortaSIP is handling high volumes of SIP traffic without RTP proxying, ie wholesale type application.
Then the recommendation would be to create a Sip cluster with addition of a second PortaSIP.
This would also provides redundancy for PortaSIP component of your PortaSwitch.
Increasing CPU power and RAM should also be considered.
You are also allowed to run PortaSIP on multiple CPU servers, but there may be no clear performance benefits - this is why PortaOne do not provide separate SMP licensing for it. There may be some increase in the performance if more than one virtual SIP instance is being used.
For more info on hardware configuration and other technical questions, please contact support@commsconnect.com.au
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Running PortaSwitch on multiple CPU servers - SMP
The PortaBilling100 SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) is only for the billing component of PortaSwitch. They need to be installed on multi CPU servers such as Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 2x Quad Core Intel® Xeons.
PortaUM and/or PortaSIP is not part of SMP licensing, however, they would benefit from more powerful CPUs (such as Quad Xeons and more RAM).
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