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Articles in Oct, 2003 issue of Communications News

• The future of IP conferencing: multiple forms of communication will connect workers and improve productivity - Special focus: conferencing - Column
  by Chris Cullin
• First-mile Ethernet - Media conversion - Transition Networks' Remotely Managed Fast Ethernet Media Converter provides a fully managed conversion between 100BaseTX and 100BaseFX signals at central office and customer premises - Brief Article
• Mix analog and digital - Voice network products - Toshiba Telecommunications Systems' Strata CTX100-S telephone management system
• Equipment rack - Power and cabling products - The Siemon Company's Rack-it is a set of mounting brackets that allows rackmount equipment to be installed almost anywhere
• TCP analysis - Network analysis products - Alacritech's TCP/IP Offload Engine Analyzer is a monitoring program that helps administrators determine the need for TCP offload on Microsoft Windows-based systems
• IP remote PIM - Voice network products - the NEAX 2000 IPS-DMR is a new remote component for the company's NEAX 2000 IPS and NEAX IPS-DM midrange VoIP systems
• Conferencing provides disaster link: in-house solution provides cost savings over outsourcing alternative - Special Focus: Conferencing - NSTAR
• Fiber conversion - Media conversion - Omnitron Systems' iConverter GX/T provides media and speed conversion from 10/100/1000Base-T unshielded twisted-pair to 1000Base-X fiber
• Wireless IP system - Voice network products - Kirk Telecom's KIRK 1500 IP is a modular wireless voice-communication system that integrates with most existing and future IP-PBX installations
• Cable blowing - Power and cabling products - General Machine Products' Breeze cable-blowing machine - Brief Article
• VoIP monitoring and assessment - Network analysis products - Alcatel's Alcatel Assessment for VoIP Solution tool is a software solution for assessing the VolP readiness of enterprise networks, as well as ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting
• IP telephony service - Voice network products - OuterBoundsTechnologies' nVox
• The impact of fiber management: automated fault-detection tools can speed the repair of cable networks - Infrastructure - remote fiber test systems, or RFTS
  by Harry Mellot
• Protected fiber converter - Media conversion - IMC Networks' Secure Gateway Enclosure combines an approved protective distribution systems enclosure and a 10/100 MiniMC auto-negotiating media converter
• Large-size phone solution - Voice network products - Vodavi Technology's XTS communications system
• Surge protection - Power and cabling products - Power Sentry's Power Blocker 2 surge protector - Brief Article
• WAN analysis - Network analysis products - Fluke Networks' OptiView WAN Analyzer
• Small business phone system - Voice network products - Centrepoint Technologies' TalkSwitch 48 NLS system
• Protect mobile device data - Trends
• Audio conference service - New products - Forum Communications International's U-HOST
• Power supply - Power and cabling products - Unipower's TPCMR1U power system - Brief Article
• Detect fibers in use - Network analysis products - EXFO's LFD-203 Live Fiber Detector - Brief Article
• Tread carefully - Editor's Note - Editorial
  by Ken Anderberg
• Portable cooling - Power and cabling products - MovinCool's Office Pro 10 portable air-conditioning system
• QoS monitoring - Network analysis products - Viola Networks' NetAlly RealTime is a comprehensive tool for pre-service network readiness assessment, on-demand network troubleshooting and ongoing network-performance monitoring
• DNS growth has just begun: the challenge is to find new ways to use the almost limitless resource - Guest Column - domain name system
  by Paul V. Mockapetris
• Horizontal cable management - Power and cabling products
• Keep telephony and data centers powered: whether maintaining or hosting equipment, power glitches should be invisible to system users - Power Management - Houston-based Titanis Corp
• Branch phone system - Voice network products
• Power distribution - Power and cabling products - Snake Tray's Snake Bus power distribution system
• Failure was not an option: combining blade server technology with software creates a unified computing platform - Wide Area Networks - Seattle-based CRG
• Call management - Voice network products - Veramark Technologies' VeraSMART is a Web-based telemanagement platform designed to enable large business enterprises to reduce and control communications expenses