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NEC Visit -- Dallas, TX
While I was down in the Dallas metropolitan area this week, I had the opportunity to meet with a number of companies including Irving-based NEC. My colleagues and I were treated to a wonderful tour of the NEC Executive Briefing Center, which features many of NEC's offerings that are available to enterprises today.  There were several new and unexpected items on the tour; these products will be announced in the coming weeks. But of course the tour showcased much of NEC's product line including their latest endpoints, a small form factor, thin-client PC, their new storage solution, and the various productivity enhancing applications that the company is well known for.  The tour also brought us 'round to two demonstration areas focusing on NEC solutions as applied to a pair of specific vertical markets: Hospitality and Healthcare. As expected these demo rooms were outfitted with the latest devices and applications designed to improve the experience for patients and medical staff in the case of the healthcare demo, and hotel guests and the staff that services them in the hospitality demo. Regarding what's coming down the pike, all I can say right now is that NEC is partnering with a well known networking company to provide a product that will help enable remote workers to be more productive. Their channel will have the product in hand by mid-August and will start reselling the solution, so we have to wait a bit longer for official word of the new solution. NEC also showed us a prototype of the next version of an enterprise communications server that's still in customer trials and should be announced by the mid-to-end of August. The solution is designed as a pure IP play, supporting all existing applications such as voice, mobility, and unified communications. The product will offer a smooth migration path for existing customers who wish to move to an all-IP infrastructure. Lastly, NEC officials told us to watch out for several new solutions spanning the following areas: speech, video voice mail, and some new things from the Sphere acquisition of one year ago. The NEC folks told me that, in terms of trends, they're seeing healthy activity in the hospitality and healthcare markets. Also they say that unified communications is generating lots of traction in the SMB market as well.
Tags: Dallas, enterprise, NEC, Unified Communications, VoIP
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Dallas is Sizzling!
 Rich Tehrani is not the only TMC editorial voice in Dallas this week.
I'm here as well visiting clients and dropping in to see what's going on at IP Sizzles. So far today, I've had some interesting meetings with NEC and Fujitsu. More to come later, but suffice it to say there is a lot of interesting stuff going on here in Texas. NEC is working on new platforms and new terminals (phones) and new applications to address their bread and butter Enterprise market, including some interesting applications targeting verticals such as healthcare, hospitality and higher education. Fujitsu continues to build on their success in the optical market. The highlight of the visit today was a tour of their manufacturing facility in Richardson, TX. As I said, I'll cover this more in depth later on, but I just wanted to thank Traci King and Danna Melcher for their time and for arranging such an interesting tour of the facility. Now it's off to IP Sizzles... and yes, FYI, it's sizzling in Dallas, with the mercury hitting 102 today.
Tags: Dallas, Danna Melcher, Fujitsu, IP Sizzles, NEC
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#$%^&* Apple!
It figures. Do something to help the masses identify where they can get an iPhone 3G and Bam! No good deed shall remain unpunished. Earlier today I blogged about the Top Muffin iPhone 3G Availability Tracker, and how it was helping people find the iPhone 3G's they had been waiting for. Well guess what? It's gone. Over! Evidently, Apple did not like their 3G iPhone availability data being used outside of apple.com. They have changed all inventory values to NULL in their JSON file. I guess it beats a cease-and-desist letter.\ Looks like people will have to go to the store themselves now. It's a wonderful strategy on the part of Apple. Maybe once we get the folks who want an iPhone into our stores, they'll impulsively purchase some iPods and a 30-inch Cinema Display...
Grrr....
Tags: Apple, iPhone
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iPhone Shortage Dissipating
It is true that in the wake of the recent iPhone 3G launch, Rich Tehrani had trouble finding one. But according to Top Muffin's iPhone 3G Availability Tracker -- which tracks which stores have inventory based on Apple's own information -- as of 12:45pm today, July 24th there were quite a few units available for purchase at Apple stores throughout the United States.
In fact if Rich really wants a black 16GB model, I might be able to hook him up.
For more on the availability of the iPhone 3G, check out this article.
Tags: Apple, iPhone, mobility
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Cisco Goes Pure for Home Networking
 Cisco announced earlier today that it is acquiring Pure Networks, a developer of home-networking software. The acquisition will help Cisco to grow its solution set as the home networking market continues to grow more complex as home users continue to add new devices and services that connect to computers and to each other. Pure Networks' home networking-management solution is designed to enable users to easily set up and manage their home network and connect a range of devices, applications and services. Their flagship offering, Network Magic is billed as being the solution that helps stop users from wasting hours wading through manuals and confusing instructions or waiting on hold for technical support. The solution also promises to make it easy to: - Set up their network in minutes
- Print from any computer and share files
- Securely connect to a wireless network and prevent intruders from accessing the home wireless network; and more.
As Kurt Scherf, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Parks Associates, points out in the company's Analyst Blog, Pure Networks and Cisco were no strangers to each other. Pure Networks' software was already a key element in the Linksys Easy Link Advisor (LELA) solutionaimed at simplifying the setup and management of wireless networks. Cisco will pay $120 million for Pure Networks, and they expect the acquisition to be completed in Cisco's first quarter of fiscal year 2009.
Tags: Cisco, Home Networking, Pure
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