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VoIP Assessments are an essential step to a successful VoIP implementation. It identifies potential network issues early reducing the costs of project overruns and post-production troubleshooting.

Catalyst Services has created three different offers to fit your project and budget. Each option offers a different level of engineering involvement.  The Catalyst technical support team encourages you to include this first step for all of your VoIP projects. Click here below for details.

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As data rates increase in the Enterprise LAN 10/100 or Fast Ethernet is quickly being moved out and replaced with Gigbit switching.  Some manufacturers and lines do not even offer a 10/100 product.  Below is a quick overview of the Gigabit offerings available today from manufacturers Catalyst distributes.

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Increasing bandwidth is a constant battle faced by every IT department.  What happens when a high capacity server is hitting the limits of a single Gigabit link.  What happens when 10G is not an option, but 1G is not enough.  Simply connecting another cable is not the answer.  The result will be a total loss of the network or a nice workout for your spanning tree configuration.  The answer comes from the 802.3ad specification, or Ling Aggregation, LAG for short.

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Scenario:  DHCP is needed to assign IP phones IP address.  The ports the phones will be plugged into will connect the IP phone and the PC, which will be plugged in to the back of the IP phone.

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This morning Aruba issued a press release announcing that it is the first wireless LAN supplier to be awarded a Common Criteria certificate for its Wi-Fi solutions.  Common Criteria - also known as ISO standard 15408 - addresses the protection of assets from unauthorized disclosure, modification, or loss of use arising from both intentional and unintentional causes.  High security users typically require a combination of Common Criteria certification, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validation for cryptographic security, and compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 8100.2 security policies for wireless technologies. Aruba now satisfies all three criteria, allowing the company to meet a wide range of new domestic and international government, financial, and commercial applications.

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TFTP servers are integral to upgrades on many platforms. On the Avaya IP Office, many times the Manager program acts a TFTP server, but is limited in capacity. Here is a list of free TFTP servers that can help with file transfers via TFTP.

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Sometimes the Microsoft .NET install can get corrupted which can make it very hard to uninstall.  This can also make your applications crash and get .NET 5000 error.  This error can be seen in the event viewer on the under computer management.

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There are several applications that have to run as an administrator user but you don’t want to make that user an admin on the domain.  This can be accomplished by adding a regular domain user as a local admin to the computer where the apps are going to run.  This does not mean make a local user on the computer and add them to the admin group.

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