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Cisco Systems Wednesday announced a networking appliance designed to support mobile applications being deployed by companies over both wired and wireless networks.

Australia's $485 million Unified Communications market increased its growth by almost a third in 2007, with CIOs and IT managers increasingly turning to UC applications to improve efficiency and save money, according to Frost & Sullivan's 2008 Australia Unified Communications Report.

As more companies deploy virtualization technologies, more network managers expect the technology to introduce management challenges to their environments, according to an Interop show poll.

Here are five questions for enterprise network managers to bear in mind when considering UC deployment:

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) will spend $125,000 to upgrade its network switch infrastructure.

The world of network access control is being drawn, irresistibly, into Microsoft's orbit now that the Redmond giant's full repertoire of Network Access Protection client, server and policy components are out there in the real world.

My, how times have changed: A woman, Hillary Clinton, is a serious contender to be the next US president. But maybe they haven't changed all that much: According to the US National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), there has been an astounding 70 per cent decline in the number of incoming undergraduate women choosing to major in computer science between 2000 and 2005.

Businesses presenting their stories at last week's VoiceCon Orlando 2008 found that unified communications can increase productivity, reduce costs, speed up customer service and even do good things for the environment.

When it comes to outsourcing security functions, skepticism still rules the day for many users. The idea of handing over control of network security to an outside firm paid to maintain gear, monitor for attacks, perform scans, collect logs or update security software for employees is, to say the least, controversial.

Unified Communications needs to be brought to the masses, and in the process that can help solve the country's current economic woes, VoiceCon Orlando 2008 attendees were told Tuesday.

LAN switching vendors are expected to roll out voice product enhancements and partnerships at this week's VoiceCon Orlando conference.