The Converged Compression Appliance (CCA) is an application-aware acceleration device that provides selective compression to enable applications like VoIP, which are already pre-compressed, to achieve optimal performance and efficiency. The CCA can reduce monthly bandwidth costs by 50% or more, while improving compression efficiency by as much as 60% over previously existing solutions. Designed for ease-of-integration into small, medium and large enterprise locations, the CCA also provides auto-discovery, monitoring and reporting for more than 1,400 applications. The appliance is available in four different WAN speed capacities, from 512 Kbps for small and remote offices to 100 Mbps for data centers.

Converged Access
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Accurate documentation

First identify what is on the network and then safeguard and monitor it with LANsurveyor version 9.5 for Windows. The solution provides administrators with detailed network-documentation, asset-management, network-monitoring and vulnerability-management capabilities. Improved features include better network diagrams, new discovery methods, improved Microsoft Office Visio exports, support for Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, and new Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) support. Users can create more complete and accurate network inventoriesâ€“reducing errors and making strict audits easier to pass. Up-to-date asset reports can be created easily because LANsurveyor supports a repository to collect information on a regular basis from workstations and servers running an optional client software, and stores the data in a database.

Neon Software
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Mobile phone e-mail access

Nokia Business Center delivers business applications and mobile e-mail for smartphones and business-optimized mobile devices. The solution is designed to expand the universe of potential mobile users by leveraging the broad availability of standard mobile phones and by providing a two-tier client strategy. The standard client will be licensed on an unlimited basis with each Nokia Business Center server. A more richly featured professional client will be available for a minimal upgrade fee. The product is a Java-based solution that can be deployed on any Java MIDP 2.0-capable phone, once certified by Nokia. Initially, it will support mobile e-mail over specific Nokia phones, and integrate with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, followed shortly by support for Lotus Notes and Domino.

Nokia
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Keep SIP secure

SIPassure 2.0 is a turn-key platform that provides end-to-end network and application-layer security for VoIP, instant messaging, videoconferencing and other SIP-based applications. The solution provides an added layer of security for SIP proxy servers, IP-PBXs, and real-time communications systems from market leaders and open-source vendors. The secure-edge proxy offers standard features such as NAT traversal, topology hiding, session management and traditional firewall protection, as well as enhanced functionality to protect against SIP-based attacks. Designed to co-exist with session border controllers and traditional perimeter firewalls, it secures not only the application and media servers, but also all users and SIP endpoints.

BorderWare Technologies
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Simple, intelligent switching

The EZ Switch 10/100/1000 Gigabit smart switches, in 16- and 24-port configurations (SMCGS16-Smart and SMCGS24-Smart), bring the speed of gigabit copper connectivity to the desktop, with key management features and the ease of Web-based configuration. The switches deliver gigabit copper connectivity with 16 or 24 auto-MDIX ports backed by an 8K MAC address table to ensure support for large networks. The switches are 1U high and suitable for desktop or rack-mounting. Features include advanced IP Port/DSCP or 802.1p-based QoS with rate limiting; WRR; VLAN tagging; broadcast storm control; port trunking; port mirroring; dual firmware images; and Web management security. An easy-to-use Web interface enables users to configure the switches, and view network activity and statistics.

SMC Networks
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VoIP phone adapter

The VoIP Phone Adapter allows users to instantly switch between their existing phone line and VoIP. It is designed to seamlessly work on most VoIP networks and lets users turn ordinary landline and cordless phones into VoIP phones using any broadband connection. The analog telephone adapter is compact and portable. It has one LAN Ethernet port, one FXS port and one PSTN pass-through port. The LAN port provides connection to the Internet through a WAN router, a DSL modem or a cable modem. The FXS port provides a connection for a regular telephone.

SOYO Group
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Exchange server backup

The Application Continuity Appliance (ACA) for Microsoft Exchange delivers instant-on failover and failback in the event of planned or unplanned downtime of a Microsoft Exchange server. With a simple 10-minute installation using the Web-based interface, the ACA installs non-intrusive software agents on the Exchange server. No modifications are required on the Exchange, Active Directory or DNS infrastructure. The ACA maintains an ongoing object-level backup of the Exchange mail store, assuring that database corruption is never replicated. The applianceâ€™s antivirus systems are also monitored and securely updated. The appliance can be deployed equally effectively at headquarters or at branch offices to guarantee uptime.

Teneros
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WAN acceleration

Designed for distributed enterprises, the WX platforms integrate all the elements required to optimize application performance, improve application response times, maximize WAN investments, and control and prioritize key applications. The solution improves application performance over the WAN by eliminating redundant transmissions, accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols, prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth, and ensuring high availability at sites with multiple WAN links. The units communicate constantly to provide distributed stateful intelligence about the entire network, exchanging vital information such as topology, reachability and path-performance metrics. The platforms provide compressed output ranging from 64 Kbps to 155 Mbps and support two to 2,000 remote sites each. Multiple communities of WX platforms can be configured to support an unlimited number of locations.

Juniper Networks
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Identify bandwidth use

Select AppFlows is a module for the companyâ€™s Visual UpTime Select product that delivers end-to-end visibility into the flow of individual applications from every location in an enterprise. This assists administrators to have a better understanding of client-to-server, server-to-server or peer-to-peer relationships. It also bridges the gap between network and application monitoring by measuring individual application server connect and server response times. The solutionâ€™s detailed views quickly pinpoint bandwidth hogs and the applications they are usingâ€“authorized or unauthorized. Combined with other modules, administrators can isolate problems by drilling down and determining if poor performance is server, application or network related.

Visual Networks
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Citrix performance management

EdgeSight for Citrix Presentation Server is an end-to-end performance management solution for Citrix environments that enables rapid problem resolution and capacity planning. The product facilitates simultaneous analysis of both the Citrix server and the Citrix end-user device, and provides context by analyzing application performance from the end-userâ€™s perspective, in conjunction with system or application performance for a specific session on a Citrix server. It provides visibility of end-user performance and helps administrators understand how additional users and applications impact system resource requirements. The solution uses a low-overhead, autonomous agent to monitor, analyze and diagnose problems from the end-userâ€™s perspective.

Reflectent Software
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Secure remote access

The EX-1500 appliance running Aventail ST is a VPN solution that provides a common end-user experience and a centralized management model for all access methods, devices, users and resources. When users access the Aventail gateway, they use the same URL and receive a common look and feel, regardless of device or location. Access is dynamically adapted so users only receive access to applications that are relevant for that device and appropriate for their security profile. Additional management tools allow network managers to segment administration of the SSL VPN appliance into defined roles, distributing the workload, while controlling access and management. Graphical snapshots of the authentication flow replace textual reports with a single-page quick view of the entire log-in and authentication process. Users can update their passwords via the portal, ensuring security policy is maintained for remote users that are never on the corporate LAN.

Aventail
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Traffic-management appliance

The ZXTM 7000 is a fault-tolerant, load-balancing solution that delivers integration of system security, optimization and traffic management. The solution features TrafficScript scripting language and TrafficCluster scalability, enabling deployment in clusters rather than pairs, which provides horizontal scalability and redundancy. Running on dual Opteron processors, the unit also has the additional capabilities of bandwidth and service-level management. Designed to drive performance and deliver cost efficiencies to Web-enabled businesses, the appliances are vertically scalable, enabling businesses to upgrade from load balancing to a full application traffic-management solution as required, without complicated migration. All appliances are preconfigured to make deployment and setup simple.

Zeus Technologies
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