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To deliver true broadband, IT professionals first must solve a number of technology challenges, including: • Scaling the access network to meet the huge bandwidth demands of high-capacity, media-rich services such as video. • Scaling metro and long-haul networks. • Simplifying all network architectures to accommodate the diverse set of endpoints and their different needs (e.g., authorization; authentication; To do this, one must marry the network capabilities and intelligence from the telecom world with the rich world of IT applications to create a new, communications-enabled application. That would mean audio, video and instant messaging — plus sophisticated network capabilities such as conferencing, location, presence, proximity and identity — will become intrinsic to the application experience. By communications-enabling applications in this way, IT professionals can streamline processes; If you think about the challenges facing us, you will find almost every new project involves a multidisciplinary convergence of technologies from different domains: wireline and wireless, enterprise and carrier, applications and infrastructure, and everything in between. security; operations, administration and maintenance (OAM); and intelligence). • Ensuring seamless, uninterrupted communications across all networks — wired and wireless and public and private. reduce human delays; improve customer and supplier relationships; lower operating and capital costs; and create a much richer, simplified and more satisfying communications experience. Let’s look at an example of the power of telecom and IT convergence through the eyes of a project manager reviewing a financial spreadsheet. If the spreadsheet is communications-enabled, the manager can roll the cursor over each data entry to see who provided the information, how that individual can be reached at that particular time — for example, via desk phone, mobile phone, e-mail or instant message — and whether that person is available and willing to talk. If so, one simple click within the Communications-Enabling Applications It will not be enough, however, to provide a seamless broadband experience at the infrastructure level. The communications experience also must be unified at the applications level so that it, too, is seamless across devices, networks and enterprise boundaries. 2 CERTIFICATION MAGAZINE January 2009

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Certification - January 2009 Editor's Letter Contents Data Stream Virtual Village Tech Careers Dear Techie Academic Connection Troubleshooting What We Like Look Ahead The New Convergence Formula Cybersecurity: Are You Safe? Interface Lead Applications Developer: The IT Ambassador Inside Certification Ad Index Endtag

Certification - January 2009

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