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Avaya Joins Polycom To Integrate Voice, Video Over IP

The object is to provide customers with a converged IP infrastructure that supports voice, data and video applications. "The whole idea is to make a video call as simple as a voice call," said Micky Tsui, vice president and general manager of the communications systems division at Avaya.

The first product to stem from the partnership will integrate Polycom's ViaVideo II desktop videoconferencing system with the Avaya IP Softphone. Scheduled for shipment in the second quarter of 2004, the integrated solution will enable users to make voice and video calls via a PC or laptop.

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MaxWare Launches New Identity Management Synchronization Tool

MaxWare introduced ExpresSync, a data synchronization tool that securely sends identity data between two data repositories or applications.

Network administrators use ExpresSync to help manage personnel changes, such as when a person is hired or let go. With ExpresSync, the administrator can synchronize changes between the network operating system and the card key repository

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Fortinet Adds New Firewall Capability

Fortinet released FortiOS 2.8 this week with dynamic prevention and 50 new features and enhancements.

The updated platform now accelerates stateful inspection, which looks at e-mail headers, and deep packet inspection, which checks packet content. In addition, the technology now performs what the company calls complete content protection.

Unlike deep packet inspection, which looks at packets individually, complete content protection gathers all packets and reassembles them to check for threats. This counters the new method of delivering a virus or worm in pieces and reassembling it inside the victim's machine.

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