• Cisco takes its lumps, keeps developing video meeting tools

  By Stephen Lawson | 25 May, 2012 23:31

  Cisco Systems owned up to some miscalculations in its video collaboration strategy but showed off some promising future capabilities in a briefing with media this week.

• FCC ruling on 800MHz band a boon for Sprint

  By Stephen Lawson | 25 May, 2012 19:53

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved a rule change for part of the 800MHz band at a meeting on Thursday, opening the door for Sprint Nextel to use the band for its 4G LTE network.

• AARNet extends international academic network links

  By Hamish Barwick | 25 May, 2012 10:13

  In a bid to increase collaboration between Australian and overseas universities, the Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet) has signed a partnership with NRENum.net, an international body of research and education networks that shares call routing to make free international voice/video calls.

• More NBN access for remote schools

  By AAP | 25 May, 2012 10:00

  More remote schools, health clinics and local government facilities will be able to access the National Broadband Network (NBN) through an established interim satellite service, the government says.

• NBN build gaining momentum daily: Quigley

  By AAP | 25 May, 2012 07:00

  NBN Co boss, Mike Quigley, says momentum on the National Broadband Network is building despite the delays and setbacks in delivering on the government's $36 billion project.

• Mobile survival guide: Top tips for staying connected

  By Patrick Miller | 14 January, 2011 01:11

  Picture this: You're sitting down

• Optimize your router for VoIP and video

  By Jon L. Jacobi | 10 December, 2010 02:33

  We're at an awkward stage as the age of network-streamed multimedia matures. Broadband and cell providers have only recently realized the public's enormous appetite for streaming video, VoIP, and the combination of both.

• How to pick NAS for any business

  By Jon L. Jacobi | 05 November, 2010 01:42

  Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways.

• The ABCs of VoIP

  By Sheena Finnegan, Cisco Presales Engineer, CDW | 30 September, 2010 08:17

  Given the importance of telephone systems, refreshing the technology can be daunting. However, for small and midsized businesses who consider upgrading from a PBX to VoIP, the benefits are clear and, with proper planning, the implementation is not very frightening. Consider these three steps:

• Slow Wi-Fi? Try bypassing it with an Ethernet cable

  By Rick Broida | 11 August, 2010 09:10

  A reader has noticed that the Wi-Fi at her local library has slowed considerably in recent months, and she's wondering what's causing it: "Is it our computers, bogged down with too much junk, or is it something to do with the library's system?"

• In depth: Unified communications still fragmented

  By Bob Violino | 16 May, 2012 21:07

  Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to problems workers have keeping in touch with colleagues, business partners and customers in a highly frenetic, increasingly mobile business world.

• From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

  By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  IT as we know it is over.

• Hold the phone: retailers eye payments via smartphone

  By Maria Korolov | 26 March, 2012 22:26

  An emerging technology called Near Field Communication will soon give new meaning to the phrase "tapped out."

• Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 18 January, 2012 08:36

  A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Want better Wi-Fi? Five things you need

  By Logan G. Harbaugh | 27 October, 2011 08:27

  Laptops used to be the only devices on the company's wireless network. But Wi-Fi has become a ubiquitous standard used by a host of devices -- including desktop PCs, laptops, netbooks, tablets, smartphones, printers, storage devices, and projectors.

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