FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Like many multinational companies, Siemens Enterprise Communications needed to streamline its communications network management while setting the stage for advanced services. The company turned to Verizon Business for an integrated communications and networking solution that will enable it to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively as it transitions to a unified communications environment.
Verizon's solution for upgrading Siemens Enterprise Communications' European communications infrastructure integrates voice over IP with centralized, multicountry and multisite IP Trunking to link the company's Munich headquarters with operations across 10 European countries. Additionally, Verizon IP Trunking's Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks (BEST) feature enables Siemens to essentially scale VoIP network capacity on demand to support its business needs.
Verizon's simple VoIP infrastructure has also enabled Siemens to transition all its voice communications to its own award-winning OpenScape Unified Communications Suite, which includes audio conferencing, presence and collaboration tools – as well as providing a platform on which this can be demonstrated to the company's customers.
Guenther Ernst, Siemens Enterprise Communications chief information officer, said: "Migrating our European infrastructure to the Verizon Business solution has enhanced not only our internal communications capabilities, but also our ability to service our customers. We chose Verizon Business to support us for Europe in our global project, thanks to the positive experience of working with the company in North America, and are now planning to continue deployment across the Asia-Pacific region. Essentially, Verizon Business is helping us streamline our operations so we can enhance our business agility to realize our business goals."
About Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG
Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's OpenPath® commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores Group and Siemens AG, Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG includes Cycos and Enterasys Networks. For more information about Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG or Enterasys please visit www.siemens-enterprise.com or www.enterasys.com
Note: Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. is a trademark licensee of Siemens AG. HiPath, OpenOffice, OpenScape and OpenStage, are registered trademarks of Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. or its affiliates. All other company, brand, product and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
About Verizon Business
Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications, is a global leader in communications and IT solutions. We combine professional expertise with one of the world's most connected IP networks to deliver award-winning communications, IT, information security and network solutions. We securely connect today's extended enterprises of widespread and mobile customers, partners, suppliers and employees – enabling them to increase productivity and efficiency and help preserve the environment. Many of the world's largest businesses and governments – including 96 percent of the Fortune 1000 and thousands of government agencies and educational institutions – rely on our professional and managed services and network technologies to accelerate their business. Find out more at www.verizonbusiness.com.
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Enterasys, leading with the S-Series switching line, simplifies cloud computing deployments, automating network configurations in the increasingly dynamic data center. Traditional network equipment lacks the visibility into cloud content needed to ensure that on-demand applications work properly and have the flexible network resources they depend on. As the industry adopts technologies such as machine and server virtualization, Enterasys is working with partners such as Dell to leverage the network as a critical resource in assuring application delivery.
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IT company Dell said today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with networking company Aruba Networks under which Dell will deliver Aruba's wireless solutions under its PowerConnect W-Series networking portfolio.
The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Dell's new PowerConnect W-Series is designed to help customers efficiently deploy and manage wireless networking solutions, allowing them to dynamically scale their networks using enterprise-class connectivity and offering security to mobile workers. The solutions include a centralised management allowing IT professionals to manage a large number of wireless access points. The products are designed to prioritise bandwidth based on application demands in a rapidly changing network, according to the company The Dell PowerConnect W-Series of wireless networking products are expected to be available through Dell and its PartnerDirect channel partners to customers in the US, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK this quarter, with other countries in the near future. No pricing information was provided.
MUMBAI, India, Verizon Business' Managed Services portfolio is now available in India, enabling India-headquartered customers and local subsidiaries of multinational companies to benefit from the company's extensive experience and expertise in proactive network monitoring and management.
Aruba Networks Unveils Access Points That Can Be Upgraded to 802.11n via Software Download
Economical 802.11a/b/g Access Points Can Be Upgraded Over the Network to 802.11n Operation, Meeting Today's Budget Limits and Tomorrow's Performance Requirements
California-based Aruba Networks, a global player in secure mobility solutions, today unveiled its Secure Enterprise Mesh Technology in India that enables deployment of a converged data, voice and video network without installing any new data wiring.
Addressing the newspersons here, Aruba Networks Co-founder and Vice President Keerti Melkote said the Mesh technology sends information from location to location through a Wi-Fi network that can be installed, moved or changed quickly and easily at a dramatically lower cost.
He said the company was looking at India with high expectations due to its burgeoning number of companies, both big and the SMEs, that were looking for end-to-end security and economics in deployment of mobility solutions.
''This portable but globally deployable product is sans any short comings faced by the users of Wi-Fi technology, mainly the security aspect. Mesh technology removes all impediments faced by Wi-Fi users like problems of security, lack of roaming, difficult to operate, hard to deploy and the cost factor,'' he said.
Mesh technology provide end-to-end security as it was encrypted from client to core, delivering greatest protection for network data, even if the mesh access point was stolen. The mobility controller offers ultra high bandwidth capacity and availability, he added.
Drager India sees its customer base widening and expects to position itself as a turnkey solution provider for large hospital projects with Dragger AG of Germany and Siemens Medical Solutions Group based in Germany merging their worldwide activities in acute-point-of-care solutions into a joint venture. The agreement to this effect was signed recently whereby the joint venture Drager Medical — A Drager and Siemens Company, will be formed which would have a total sales volume of approximately 1.2 billion Euro and to employ 6,400 people worldwide.
With this acquisition Drager Medical will get the combined market access of Siemens and Drager in India which touches a voluminous 80 per cent. Integrating personnel, equipment and services through JV company could meet almost 90 per cent of the requirement of hospital projects, said the source. Siemens Med will bring its EM division portfolio of patient monitoring, anesthesia delivery, ventilation and related services into the new organization and, in return, will hold a 35 per cent stake in Drager Medical AG & Co KGaA, the legal entity of the joint venture, according to a press communique. Drager and Siemens plan to bundle their businesses in acute point-of-care solutions, in order to offer global customers products and complete solutions from one source for effective and cost-efficient patient care.
Says Drager Medical CEO, Dr Wolfgang Reim, “Our goal is to be one of the leading solutions providers worldwide in the OR/ anesthesia, neonatal to adult critical care, emergency care and in home care ventilation. Through Siemens Med’s market strength in the USA, we will gain an added stronghold in the world’s largest single market.” According to Dr Siegfried Russwurm, president of Siemens Med’s Elektromedizin division, “The IT landscape plays a key role.
The joint venture will also develop, manufacture and market IT solutions for the acute point-of-care through the use of Siemens basic software architecture syngo and Soarian, platforms that can be integrated into all areas of the health care sector for more complete solutions.”
This combination of Aruba’s powerful mobility controllers with Juniper Networks Odyssey Access Client FIPS Edition delivers a complete FIPS 140-2 validated secure mobile solution that meets the governments’ most stringent requirements, while addressing both 802.11i and non-802.11i compliant devices.
The Juniper Networks and Aruba Networks FIPS Validated 802.11i Security Solution Through the Juniper enterprise alliance technology partnership program, Juniper and Aruba have co-developed solutions that provide a comprehensive, validated offering that meets strict government IT and network security requirements.
Aruba and Juniper are the only partners that can offer a comprehensive FIPS validated 802.11i solution today. A modified driver is needed to run 802.11i in a FIPS-compliant configuration, but these drivers are not available for all devices and platforms.
Juniper and Aruba have jointly developed the xSec protocol to address this problem. xSec is a standards-based, Layer 2 protocol that can provide FIPS-compliant Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption over off-the-shelf 802.11 adapters and drivers. The selected adapter does not need to support 802.11i; xSec also provides AES encryption over 802.1X wired connections.
Because of its centralized architecture, Aruba’s mobility controller delivers unmatched encryption processing power and a design where no encryption keys are stored anywhere outside the controller. Only Aruba’s mobility controller needs to be FIPS validated. Juniper Networks Odyssey Access Client FIPS Edition is compatible with the Department of Defense (DoD) Common Access Card (CAC) standard, and supports both the Aruba/Juniper jointly developed xSec and 802.11 standards through its own embedded FIPS 140-2 Level 1, which has been validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cryptographic module and meets the most rigorous government encryption standards. OAC FIPS Edition also offers the advanced management features needed by large government organizations with multiple facilities and sites.http://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510208-en.pdf
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