Jessie Bryan, Impulse’s Director of Systems Engineering, will be hosting a conference call in conjunction with Nexenta and Pogolinux on the advantages of using Nexenta for high availability storage solutions. The webinar takes place this Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 10:00AM. Find out how to implement a cost-effective business continuity solution for critical applications and services. During this webinar, you will learn about the high-availability features in…
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Video Killed the Radio Star… Is the Internet Next?
Netflix hit 20 million subscribers last year, and with reportedly over 60% of their subscribers streaming video over the Internet, the pressure they are putting on the Internet as a delivery system for television shows and movies has taken center stage lately. Netflix holds the most notoriety as the leader of the pack, but Hulu and even DirecTV through its on-demand service delivered over your broadband connection…
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The Truth Behind Free Conference Calls And Traffic Pumping
When you make a one-minute phone call, the long distance company that charges you a few cents a minute has to shell out a wee little bit to a few other entities. How little? Typically some tiny fraction of a cent. The local originating company gets a fraction of a cent for handing the call to the long distance company, a database service gets a bit to look up…
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Why Impulse Isn’t a Tier-One Provider
I had an interesting experience at a recent meeting with a local government agency. The subject of purchasing Internet and advanced communication services came up and the customer mentioned that of course they wanted to go with a tier-one carrier. This got me thinking as to the technical definition of a tier-one carrier and the often confusing public perceptions of its meaning.
Cisco Switch Power Deny Issue with Polycom Phones
We ran into a rather bizarre problem a while back with a VoIP installation. The installation consisted of a cisco 3560 48-port PoE switch feeding 35 Polycom phones. Most of the phones powered up fine but a few wouldn’t boot. When a working phone was unplugged, another previously-dead phone would come to life, but the one just unplugged would then remain dead when reconnected. Checking the power…
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