25 February 2021

UCaaS from Exponential-e

Exponential-e’s Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) suite combines technologies from several vendors, including Microsoft, Cisco, Broadsoft and Contact Centre as a Service, and is designed to support increased collaboration and productivity in the workplace, wherever employees are working from.

Users have one identity across all services – voice, video, IM and presence information – and can access contacts from one list across all their work devices. IM and presence let users know at a glance whether other colleagues are available and online. Users can also be added to group calls easily and communications pulled across multiple devices with no break in flow.

18 February 2021

Garland Technology’s PacketMAX Appliances are designed to provide advanced features for both inline and out-of-band applications.

The systems support 1G- 100G speeds.

The system aims at reducing the overall volume of traffic sent to tools to reduce the possibility of oversubscription.

18 February 2021

SignalTEK 10G from Ideal Networks is a new handheld ethernet tester designed to measure the maximum bandwidth available on LAN networks, identify bottlenecks and find ways to increase bandwidth “without the need to replace expensive data cabling”.

By simulating actual LAN network traffic SignalTEK 10G enables users to test, troubleshoot and document network and data cable performance up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards.

04 February 2021

Exfo's  MaxTester

EXFO’s MaxTester 940/945 Fibre Certifier OLTS is a tablet-inspired test solution optimized for tier-1 fiber certification for data center and enterprise structured cabling. The product certifies that the fiber optic infrastructure is meeting the loss budget at the time of installation. This ensures that system activation runs according to plan, and allows IT technicians to achieve faster, first-time right system acceptance.

Enterprise networks are evolving to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of applications. Regardless of whether these applications are delivered on mobile internet or wired connections, fiber optics has long established itself as the means to directly connect end devices, or form part of the backbone of LAN infrastructure.

25 January 2021

If there’s one company in this space that needs little or no introduction, it’s Schneider Electric.

The EcoStruxure IT is the company’s next generation data centre management solution featuring remote management from, it reckons, virtually any device – phone, tablet, or home PC – at any time.

22 January 2021

Vertiv’s Trellis Platform is a popular DCIM solution that provides a real-time, integrated view of IT and facility assets, making it easier to collaborate, plan and control changes in the data center.

One of the key selling points of this, if not the primary one, is the visibility it provides while offering a simple modular, scalable platform for custom configurations.