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2 more emergency readiness tips.
May 22, 2008 ... Here are two more disaster prep tips from a survivor of Hurricane Katrina: Emergency communication rooms--If you're considering building an emergency communications control center at your enterprise, you might want to build several across your campus. You risk losing all of your ...
Generators, satellites and ... pay phones?(Disaster Planning 2008)
May 22, 2008 ... Conventional wisdom says POTS lines, generators and radios will help keep your communications operating during a disaster. But who would have thought that pay phones could be a valuable addition to the mix? It's true. That's the advice from John Lyon, telecom manager at the ...
New Cisco TelePresence for personal, group meetings.
May 22, 2008 ... Cisco unveiled two new additions to its TelePresence video conferencing platform on May 12. The Cisco TelePresence System 500 is designed for use in personal office spaces, the manufacturer says in a press release. TelePresence 500 includes a 37-inch display, a camera, ...
Smart phone boom echoes through budgets.(2008 Wireless Benchmark Survey Special Report, Part 2)
May 22, 2008 ... Smart phones make up a whopping 58% of the 158 cellular devices at Muncie, Ind.-based financial holding company First Merchants Corporation, up from 23% a year ago, reports Jarett Chaiken, network and telecom engineer at the enterprise. The story is similar at Alpharetta, ...
Wireless carriers prep for hurricane season 2008.
May 22, 2008 ... AT&T boasts spending billions to bulk up its network capabilities in advance of what many are predicting will be an active 2008 hurricane season (which officially kicks off June 1). Here's a partial list of AT&T's preparations, according to a press release from the carrier: ...