Microsoft Office communications Server is going from strength to strength, building on its SIP capabilities,with last week’s OCS R2 launch. Features now include Attendant, ACD and SIP trunking support.
TechNet is hosting a session that will cover the Voice Capabilities in Office Communication Server 2007 R2 features on March 11th at 4pm (thanks to Eileen’s blog for the heads [...]

According to the latest numbers from Dell’Oro Group today, VDSL is on the rise, although DSL in general is slowing down:
DSL port shipments on infrastructure equipment fell more than 10 percent in 2008. Within total ports, ADSL port shipments fell almost 20 percent while VDSL port shipments grew 40 percent.
The report predicts this trend will [...]

I’ll admit that this is on the edge of the network topic, quite literally, but it has been such a long time coming that I have to post on its arrival. Much of the mobile world is out in Barcelona this week at Mobile World Congress. There will be a sea of announcements, but this is [...]

While some may have concerns about surveillance in the UK - The Internet, Surveillance Society, Databases and The Cloud - things are in a much worse state elsewhere. ZDNet has a story about Vodafone’s battle with the Egyptian authorities.
 
Vodafone’s global head of content standards, Annie Mullins, told a Westminster eForum event on Wednesday that following food riots at Egyptian [...]

While business IT staff are sometimes criticised for excessive surveillance of staff, it was Networked CCTV and government databases that came under scrutiny with today’s publishing of Surveillance: Citizens and the State (pdf file). The House of Lords Constitution Committee has warned that increasing use of surveillance by the government and private companies is a serious threat to freedoms and constitutional [...]