Products of the Year 2007:

Branch routers

The top winners in this category are:

Gold Award:

The 2600/2800 from Cisco took home the top prize in our Product Leadership Awards branch router category, scoring highest in each of eight criteria. More than 90% of Cisco 2600/2800 users praised the router's network integration and compatibility,...

Silver Award:

3Com Router 3000 series

Taking the silver award in our branch router category was the Router 3000 series from 3Com. The 3000 series scored high for network integration and compatibility; ease of installing, configuring and administering; and ease of supporting multiple...

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Enterprise WAN
- Web content optimization: A new approach to SharePoint optimization
  
  Riverbed Stingray Aptimizer helps Duke Corporate Education with SharePoint optimization.
- Ensuring Quality of Experience: Monitor networks or applications?
  
  Experts debate whether enterprises should focus on network monitoring or on application performance monitoring to measure quality of experience.
- Should you redesign WAN architecture for cloud and UC?
  
  Connecting to the cloud and supporting unified communication (UC) applications is forcing enterprises to redesign WAN architecture.
Unified Communications
- Integrating mobile device management with UC systems and features
  
  Businesses need a plan to integrate their existing UC systems with their mobile device management and BYOD policy; building a matrix can give the project a logical start.
- Enterprises turning to session management for UC interoperability
  
  The use of session management middleware is being floated as a way to use SIP to improve UC interoperability for collaboration and UC apps.
- Interop 2012: UC apps vendors must strive for interoperability
  
  Vendors are aware of and gradually responding to issues around multi-vendor UC strategies and UC interoperability, according to a discussion panel at Interop 2012.
Mobile Computing
- Bringing BYOD to your enterprise
  
  Bring your own device (BYOD) can be a boon for both employees and enterprises, but clear policies and management tools are needed.
- Meeting technical requirements for mobile health care deployments
  
  IT departments deploying mobile health care solutions must ensure that using mobile devices in health care settings doesn't violate federal laws or compromise security.
- Making the call: Distributed antenna systems and in-building wireless
  
  Distributed antenna systems and in-building wireless solutions are two options to improve wireless cellular coverage within an enterprise facility.
Data Center
- Puppet Labs offers bare-metal provisioning to enterprises via EMC
  
  Puppet Labs surprises some IT pros with a new EMC partnership that open-sources automated bare-metal provisioning for servers.
- Are private data centers an endangered species?
  
  Businesses can save millions by leasing data center space rather than building their own, but some feel private data centers are the best bet.
- Facebook Open Compute Project a role model for data centers
  
  Data center experts say most enterprises can’t imitate Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but they could reap the benefits over time.
Networking Channel
- Partners learn to sell telemedicine solutions
  
  Selling telemedicine solutions can be an opportunity for partner growth, but it comes with its share of technology and skill set challenges to overcome.
- Think you can't make digital signage sales?
  
  When video wall technology was expensive it was hard to sell. But selling digital signage has dropped in cost and many companies are now eager to replace static signs.
- Cisco Partner Summit 2012: Support services, cloud and mobility reign
  
  At Cisco Partner Summit 2012, Cisco continues its attempt to improve business by refocusing its channel partner strategy with support services, mobility and cloud announcements.