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AudioCodes media gateways create a smooth transition to T.38 Fax over IP (FoIP) for Sagem Interstar's XMediusFAX.

AudioCodes, Ltd., a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VOP) technologies and voice network products, announced on 8 August 2006 that it has formed a strategic relationship with Sagem Interstar Corporation (www.faxserver.com), formerly known as Interstar Technologies Inc., a market leader in IP fax server solutions. AudioCodes will supply its media gateway products to Sagem Interstar to deliver economical and reliable VoIP media gateway solutions to XMediusFAX T.38 FoIP fax server customers.

Sagem Interstar's award-winning XMediusFAX fax server software empowers organizations with cost-effective, desktop email faxing and fax broadcasting. It enables users to send and receive faxes directly from their existing email clients or networked T.37-compliant multifunction devices. The integration of the AudioCodes TP-260 SIP media gateway products with XMediusFAX provides a cost effective, highly-reliable solution employing T.38 Fax-over-IP for customers of all sizes.

""The combination of our solutions will provide Sagem Interstar's customers with a simple and cost-effective way to migrate to a T.38 Fax-over-IP solution. The relationship also establishes AudioCodes as a key supplier to the Fax Server, Unified Messaging Market "stated Ron Romanchik, VP of Sales, AudioCodes Blade Business Line

"We have invested a great deal of time and energy in testing our XMediusFAX software with the AudioCodes TP260 SIP gateways to ensure we are offering a solution that meets the high standards of availability, reliability, and performance our customers have grown to expect from us," said Martin Demers, General Manager of Sagem Interstar Corporation (SAFRAN Group). "We are very excited that we can now offer fax server customers, even if they have not migrated to VoIP, all of the benefits of a true T.38 FoIP solution for a price that is competitive with legacy fax server solutions that are limited by their expensive, single-purpose fax blades."

AudioCodes TP-260 SIP is a complete SIP-compliant media gateway on a blade that delivers a cost-effective solution in a convenient PCI form factor. This stand-alone PCI media gateway supports T.38 FoIP and is an ideal solution for IP-PBXs and all-in-one communication servers. The TP-260 SIP is designed for enterprise applications and provides up to 240 ports for voice, fax, or data for VoIP media gateway applications.

Both AudioCodes gateways and XMediusFAX fax server software are available from Inok Systems.

Besides AudioCodes TP-260 SIP, XMediusFAX also works with other analog and digital AudioCodes VOIP gateways as well as VOIP gateways from 3COM, Alcatel, Avaya and Cisco.
FootPrints LANsurveyor 9.6 - Helps Support and IT Managers Speed Problem Resolution Through Enhanced IT Asset Tracking and Network Monitoring and Mapping

FootPrints LANsurveyor integrates network management and IT asset discovery functionality seamlessly with the FootPrints web-based service desk, saving support and IT organizations valuable time during the customer problem-resolution process. With FootPrints LANsurveyor, support agents have instant access to valuable configuration information and are able to easily pinpoint the physical location of network problems. This helps agents speed up problem resolution and ensure data accuracy, and helps their organization decrease incident management costs. Agents no longer need to visit users’ desktops, nor do they need to locate and interact with users to gain information about their desktops.

New in FootPrints LANsurveyor:

New network auto-discovery techniques -- LANsurveyor now probes wide area networks, virtual LANs, router-to-switch and router-to-router connectivity, and VMware. Network maps are more complete.

Faster diagramming -- New algorithm generates network diagrams more quickly and supports multiple levels of undo/redo.

Enhancements to Continuous Scan Intrusion Detection -- When new nodes are detected, they are added to the network diagram. Network maps are automatically saved on schedule.

New Neon Responder v5.5 supports Linux -- The Neon Responder client software is compatible with all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac, and now Linux. Neon Responder supports leading Linux vendors Red Hat, Cent Os, SuSE, Debian, and UBuntu.

FootPrints LANsurveyor 9.6 provides a complete, cost-effective and easy-to-use solution to automate IT asset tracking, store IT asset information, and map, manage, and report on an organization’s entire network. It supports both PC and Mac environments and includes a central database that helps support groups quickly and easily run detailed asset reports within the FootPrints web-based service desk.

FootPrints LANsurveyor 9.6 also offers an asset repository to collect information from workstations and servers via the optional Neon Responder client software. This information is stored in the built-in asset database. FootPrints LANsurveyor 9.6 uses either the Microsoft SQL Database Engine (MSDE), or Microsoft SQL Server database (either locally or across the network), to create asset data reports (custom reports, software inventory reports, etc.) for nodes, even if they are offline.

The newest version of this integrated add-on solution also uses CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) and LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) to provide more information about discovered nodes, and features new switch-to-switch algorithms that dramatically improve discovery of complicated networks.

“FootPrints LANsurveyor offers our small to mid-market customers numerous network management tools to help them improve their service desk operations and employee productivity,” said Mark Krieger, President of UniPress Software. “By integrating network management and IT asset functionality with their FootPrints service desk, our customers can accelerate problem resolution and better manage their mounting support volumes, all while reducing costs.”

FootPrints LANsurveyor is particularly attractive to small to mid-size organizations, especially education, government institutions, and non-profit organizations. The solution is affordable, fast to implement, and provides an array of customization options to optimize IT asset management.

This solution integrates with and requires FootPrints web-based service desk software. Discounted volume license pricing is available for FootPrints LANsurveyor for government, non-profit, and educational institutions.