Provider Backbone Bridges Bring Massive Service Scalability to Ethernet
White Papers In an effort to deliver carrier-grade Ethernet services, two emerging standards are evolving from the original IEEE 802.1Q VLAN standard: IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridges (Q-in-Q) and IEEE 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridges (MAC-in-MAC).
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
Verizon Business Resilient Network Attached Storage Service First U.S. Provider to Incorporate New Capability Combining WAN Optimization, Application Acceleration and File-Sharing Functionality
White Papers Verizon Business is the first U.S.based provider to utilize the Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) solution to enhance its Resilient Network Attached Storage (RNAS) offering, a service that helps businesses manage and store data for...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Solution Provider Uses Virtual Technology to Switch From Cold Storage to Hot Standby
White Papers Solution provider TECTURA was faced with a problem. Its business had grown and its ability to configure, manage, and maintain customer solutions was reaching a critical point. Its solutions were built around Microsoft technology, but every customer...
[March 17, 2007, 0:00]
Maximizing Network Operations: Five Steps to a Better Provider Contract Renewal Process
White Papers In a recent Healthcare IT Strategy report on managing provider data, Health Industry Insights analyst, Janice Young stated, "To respond successfully to healthcare market business and performance mandates, healthcare payers must manage their...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Education Provider Boosts Learning Opportunities With Unified Communications
White Papers The largest provider of tertiary education in the Northland of New Zealand, NorthTec occupies 10 widely dispersed campuses and about 40 community teaching spots, and it serves more than 15,000 students and 480 staff.
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
Large Healthcare Provider Finds Prescription for Savings With MBG
White Papers The national healthcare provider, with more than 200 locations across the country, wanted to centralize the management of its telecommunications and IT services. The company sought to address several challenges.
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
PLDT, the Leading Telecommunications Provider in the Philippines, Selects Allied Telesis Advanced Gigabit Switches for the Layer 2 Aggregation Requirements of Its Next Generation Network
White Papers Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) started out as a POTS (plain old telephone service) provider. The company needed a dramatic network bandwidth increase and security/confidentiality of subscriber's network traffic.
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Multinational Healthcare Provider Simplifies Platforms and Networking With HP ProLiant Servers and HP NC7170 Network Adapters
White Papers Founded in 1971 in Columbus, Ohio, Cardinal Health has grown into a multinational healthcare provider for customers ranging from healthcare manufacturers to patient care providers. Cardinal Health has evolved beyond drug distribution and acquired...
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
When Green Equals Green: Best Practices for Communications Provider Billing in an Environmentally-Conscious, Multi-channel World
White Papers This whitepaper examines best practices for communications provider billing in an environmentally conscious, multi-channel world. With an increased focus on environmental stewardship, it's not surprising that many communications firms are looking...
[August 25, 2009, 1:22]
Office Business Applications Yield Rapid Returns for Print and Promotional Solution Provider
White Papers When WorkflowOne set out to implement a comprehensive portal strategy, the print and promotional solution provider evaluated Microsoft software, IBM WebSphere, and custom development using Java 2 Enterprise Edition.
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
HP Helps Broadband Provider MVB Offer "Triple Play" Services Over High-Speed Network
White Papers HP along with Cisco and MidtVest Bredbaand (MVB), a Denmark-based broadband provider introduced, to build a high-speed, fiber-to-the-home network for the delivery of advanced services such as video on demand and interactive TV to homes and...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Forsythe Technology Case Study: A Travel Service Provider
White Papers A major travel reservation service provider was experiencing performance issues with its online reservation system, which processed millions of transactions every day. Running on hundreds of servers across heterogeneous platforms, the system used...
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
Application Service Provider (ASP-Co) Uses VSS Distributed Taps to Meet PCI Compliance Mandates
White Papers ASP-Co is an US based application service provider with an internationally distributed user population and a broad presence that spans 7 data centers in 4 countries. In order for a network monitoring infrastructure to be useful to ASP-Co, both the...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
Services Provider Helps Speed Deployment of Rich Learning Portals by 80 Percent
White Papers ITWorx, headquartered in Egypt, is a global software services provider that specializes in education portals based on the Microsoft Learning Gateway framework. ITWorx, founded in 1994, is one of the largest software and services providers in Egypt.
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
Medical Technology Provider Unifies Global IT Environment With Latest Operating System
White Papers Medtronic, a worldwide medical technology provider, had disparate IT environments that were costly to manage and made collaboration difficult for the company's 43,000 desktop and laptop users. Medtronic mapped out a plan to create a common IT...
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
Integrated System Helps Long-Term Care Provider Streamline Billing, Improve Efficiency
White Papers Tandem Management, a provider of long-term and subacute healthcare services to about 900 residents in five skilled nursing facilities, was burdened by aging and non-integrated financial management and clinical documentation systems.
[September 6, 2007, 1:00]
IT Solution Provider Boosts Business With Enhanced Remote Management Capabilities
White Papers This helps bolster LegendCorp's reputation as a trusted service provider and minimizes the risk of potential problems in customer systems. LegendCorp provides companies of all sizes with managed IT services.
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Service Provider Launches World's First High Definition Video on Demand Distribution Service Using Hitachi Ipv6 Multicast Solution
White Papers Content Provider "A" wanted to roll out a new high-definition broadband Video-on-Demand (VoD) distribution service while maintaining an efficient use of bandwidth across an existing IPv6 network. As a solution the Content Provider "A" deployed...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
Invoicing Solution Provider Grows Business Through Office Business Applications
White Papers Diamante, a provider of innovative accounting software solutions, sought to market a solution to the large, but technology averse small business market. Diamante, based in Verona, Italy, provides full-featured accounting software to large and small...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
IT Provider Enhances Development Process With Software Upgrade
White Papers Fujitsu is the world's third-largest IT services provider, with 160,000 employees in more than 70 countries and expertise spanning a wide range of industry verticals. Fujitsu Services Finland wanted to implement the latest development tools to...
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]



