NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON CONVERGENCE 09/20/04 Today's focus: VoIP success story
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Network World Special Reports on Mobility, IP Telephony Security, the State of Wireless LANs and more are currently available. Download any or all of our Special Reports at: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=81357 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: VoIP success story By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick In recent newsletters we've been examining problems encountered in VoIP implementations that sometimes lead to a lack of satisfaction. This time, we have a success story. Ned Roehrig, who works in the Bell County Information Systems in Belton, Texas, tells us his organization recently experienced, "as put by one of our retired district judges who was stuck in an elevator when the motor caught fire, one of those flat tires on the road of life." Says Roehrig: "This fire resulted in the closing of the Belton District Courts building Friday, Aug. 27, around noon. No injuries or major fire damage, but significant smoke, hydraulic fluid (elevators are hydraulic in our four-story building) and water damage. This facility was home to 85 employees and four courtrooms. Thanks to a few terrific employees and our one-year-old VoIP phone system, we relocated 65 phones, two servers and 40 desktops into nine locations in five of our other facilities in Belton with only 42 person-hours of effort. "This would not have been possible without our 3Com NBX VoIP system. All departments were open for business on Monday, Aug. 30, and court hearings went on as scheduled in other locations in town. Having everything on one network (our facilities are all fiber connected) made this effort very easy and very inexpensive. A couple of spare switches and a few cables and we were back in business. Zero phone configuration or network configuration was required to meet this challenge." Thanks to Ned for sharing this with us. This type of flexibility for rapid moves, adds, and changes clearly demonstrates one of the major advantages that VoIP brings. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS IP services profitability still in doubt Network World, 09/20/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092004ipprofit.html Carrier Access unveils new platforms Network World, 09/20/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092004carraccess.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick Steve Taylor is President of Distributed Networking Associates and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Webtorials.Com. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials.Com <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the first Web site dedicated exclusively to market studies and technology tutorials in the Broadband Packet areas of Frame Relay, ATM, and IP. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Larry Hettick an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in voice and data. He is currently Vice President for Wireline Solutions at Current Analysis, the leading competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Alterpoint Read the latest analyst report on Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) written by EMA's Dennis Drogseth. This report discusses the latest developments in the NCCM market, including an in-depth look at DeviceAuthority Suite, a comprehensive solution for configuring, changing, and controlling today's complex, multi-vendor IT network infrastructures. 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