Sametime and Domino, as well as third-party applications. Available today, the System i IP Telephony Express Edition starts at $37,900 with a redundant backup double system offering starting at $51,900.
GL Announces Release of Enhanced Packet Test Tools with Voiceband Codecs
GL Communications ( www.gl.com) has announced the release of enhanced packet test tools for PacketScan version 2.0.32 and RTP Toolbox version 1. 33 with voiceband codecs. Both tools are now supported with narrowband as well as wideband codecs that help in transmitting or storing voice in the least bandwidth or space. The new version of PacketScan supports WinPcap 3. 1, R factors/MOS, EVRC, and ILBC codec support, recording audio and video data of a session to a Quick Time file, and triggered actions and e-mail support.
New features of RTP ToolBox include support for R factors/MOS, ILBC codec support for 20 ms and 30 ms packet size, and an option to monitor user-defined tones in the command line interface (CLI) in addition to the standard dual tones. EVRC codec now supports head-er-free packet format and is the default
bundled-packet format in the GUI, and CLI and G.722 wideband codec support.
IBM and 3Com Deliver
‘All-in-One’ Solutions
for IP Telephony and
Business Applications
IBM ( www.ibm.com) and 3Com
( www.3com.com) have developed a
scalable IP telephony solution designed
to run on a single system along with a
customer’s core business applications.
The IBM System i IP Telephony solution,
based on IBM’s “all-in-one” business
computing platform and 3Com’s VCX
systems, enables small and medium-
sized businesses with limited IT resourc-
es to implement a complete IP telephony
solution on one integrated platform.
The System i IP telephony solution can
support less than 100 to thousands of
phone users. It also should enable busi-
nesses to more easily integrate IP tele-
phony with other business applications
running on the same system, including
collaborative applications like Lotus
Kontron Unveils Mix of
Mid-Size AdvancedMC
Modules
Kontron ( www.kontron.com) has unveiled
four new AdvancedMC modules to facilitate
the security, processing, I/O, and storage
configurations of pre-integrated open mod-
ular equipment designed for IMS, 3G wire-
less, and wireline network applications. The
new modules include the mid-size Kontron
AM4330 AdvancedMC IPSec module to dy-
namically handle both IPSec and SSL VPN
processing applications deployed within
mobile communications infrastructure sys-
tems, the full-size Kontron AM4520 SAS stor-
age module, the full size Kontron AM4301
Quad GbE module, and the full-size or mid-
size Kontron AM4002 processor module.
Siemens Expands Wireless
LAN Portfolio
Siemens Enterprise Communications
( www.siemens.com/enterprise) has
launched the HiPath Wireless Manager,
building on the company’s VoIP enter-
prise communications portfolio. The
HiPath Wireless Manager is a new, cen-
tralized WLAN management platform
that enables the enterprise-wide manage-
ment of thousands of access points (APs)
and tens of thousands of users from
a single console. Enterprises can now
monitor and optimize performance us-
ing enterprise-wide heat maps, statistics,
alerts, and reports. A new key element of
the HiPath Wireless Manager software is
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