Monsieur Makend, Bonjour! Merci de nous accueillir chez vous pour cette entretien portant sur la profession libérale appelée en Allemand Freiberufler, avant d’entrer dans le vif du sujet pouvez-vous vous Présenter?

Merci de me donner cette occasion de m’exprimer sur mon choix de travail. Je m’appelle Makend, né en 1979 à Yaoundé au Cameroun. Depuis onze ans, je vis en allemagne où J’ai fait mes études supérieures à l’Université de Stuttgart et à la Hochschule de Frankfurt. Depuis près d’un an j’exerce une profession libérale (Freiberufler en Allemand) dans le E-commerce. En parallèle avec mes études de Genie Méchanique, j’ai été pendant quatre ans étudiant en alternance(Werkstudent) à Robert Bosch (Stuttgart et Leonberg) comme developpeur(Internet, Intranet, Base de données). C’est là-bas que j’ai maîtrisé les connaissances de base dans le domaine. Après cela j’ai travaillé pour Intershop AG pendant deux ans comme développeur avant de me lancer dans la profession libérale.

Que faites-vous comme activité professionelle en tant que « Freiberufler »?

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Within the high-speed category, unveiled is the NP-5, a 200-Gigabit network processor with integrated 200-Gigabit traffic management for ultra-dense 10GE, 40GE and 100GE port line cards in switches and routers. This unveiling follows the successful sampling earlier this year of EZchip’s NP-4 100-Gigabit and NP-4L 50-Gigabit processors that are quickly becoming the preferred solutions for Carrier Ethernet equipment. Within the access category, two devices are revealed that augment EZchip’s NPA family, the NPA-4 providing the highest performance and the NPA-0 providing the lowest cost. These two new products will complement the NPA-1, NPA-2 and NPA-3 that sampled last year and will round out EZchip’s NPA family to be the most versatile and complete network processor (NPU) offering for Ethernet access equipment.

«In a recent survey taken by Heavy Reading (a publication of Light Reading Inc.), EZchip’s NPUs are ranked by networking equipment vendors as the clear network processor leaders. With our fifth generation of NPUs, we are extending our offering to span solutions that range from 1-Gbps all the way up to 200Gbps. We are underlining for our customers our continued long term commitment to the NPU market and further solidifying our market leadership,» said Eli Fruchter, President and CEO of EZchip Semiconductor.

«Through technological innovations and optimized architecture EZchip is able to advance its NPUs’ throughput and functionality time and time again. These efforts have yielded for our customers the best available packet processing solutions. In our new NPUs we will integrate a host CPU and continue in extending per-port functionality at lower power and cost, while maintaining software compatibility that enables our customers to maintain and carry forward their prior investments,» said Guy Koren, CTO of EZchip Semiconductor.

The NP-5 is a 200-Gigabit network processor with integrated 200-Gigabit traffic manager that will provide unprecedented integration and enable building routers and switches for Carrier Ethernet networks as well as data centers with exceptional density and functionality. The NP-5 will enable building line cards that feature multiple 40 and 100-Gigabit ports as well as dozens of 10-Gigabit ports. Through its versatility and rich feature set NP-5 will serve a wide variety of carrier and data center applications.

The NPA-4 and NPA-0 are 24-Gigabit and 5-Gigabit network processors respectively. Both devices are a complete System-on-Chip (SoC) that integrate all the main functions of an access node. Offering high performance, low power, extended functionality and attractive price points, these NPUs will enable building a new class of Carrier Ethernet access nodes for PON, microwave backhaul, base stations, VDSL and Ethernet access, which deliver more throughput, higher functionality at lower power and cost.

All these new NPUs from EZchip integrate into a single chip the main components of a line card including programmable packet processing, traffic management, Ethernet MACs, PHYs, control CPU and Fabric Interface Controller. They are based on the same underlying technology and are code compatible to current NPUs from EZchip. All of EZchip’s NPUs are augmented with a library of production-level applications that includes data-plane code for Metro Ethernet, MPLS, GPON/EPON OLT, OAM and IEEE1588v2 clock synchronization, for enabling reduced development resources and expedited time to market.

EZchip is a fabless semiconductor company that provides Ethernet network processors for networking equipment. EZchip provides its customers with solutions that scale from several 1-Gigabit to 200-Gigabits per second with a common architecture and software across all products. EZchip’s network processors provide the flexibility and integration that enable triple-play data, voice and video services in systems that make up the new Carrier Ethernet networks. Flexibility and integration make EZchip’s solutions are ideal for building systems for a wide range of applications in telecom networks, enterprise backbones and data centers. For more information on our company, visit the web site athttp://www.ezchip.com.

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The scalable Edgecore Wireless MBG solutions, which support roaming for voice applications including wireless phones in Edgecore’s upcoming portfolio of unified communications solutions, are designed to provide secure, high-performance wireless network infrastructures for companies ranging in size from small businesses to enterprises with more than 500 users.  The Edgecore Wireless MBG supports from 50 to 150 wireless access points, including Edgecore’s family of enterprise- and business-class 802.11n access points, to extend wireless coverage and enable seamless layer 2/3 roaming to deliver anytime-anywhere access to business-critical applications.

The Edgecore Wireless MBG solutions combine the functions of both a network gateway and wireless controller into a single solution, reducing hardware costs and enabling IT administrators to centrally manage all functions of the controller and gateway in the main office and regional remote offices through a single intuitive interface to drastically reduce deployment and maintenance efforts. The Edgecore gateway/controller employs user authentication and enforces per-user policies to provide access control for a secure enterprise network.

«Our new wireless solution rounds out our overall product solution offering,» said Mike Boissiere , VP of Enterprise Data Sales at Edgecore.  »Some have asked why we would want to release a new solution when there are so many wireless players already in the market.  We’ve created a solution that was designed by and created for our partners.  Unlike most competing WiFi vendors that cannot provide a full infrastructure offering, Edgecore will deliver to its partners the ability to install wired or wireless infrastructures into any environment.  For example, we now deliver performance wired and wireless Ethernet solutions, VDSL2 (which includes wireless), Unified Communication, NMS and UDM Software to manage the infrastructures, and a service platform for increased partner margins.  It’s not just the technology, but our partners we’re concerned about supporting.»

«The convergence of various data and voice applications into the network infrastructure is driving the demand for a wireless infrastructure that delivers a critical combination of performance, security and reliability, while at the same time being affordable and easy-to-manage,» explained Keith Alexis , general manager at Edgecore.  »Our new family of gateway/controller solutions enables businesses of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises to deploy cutting-edge data and voice solutions over a wireless infrastructure that delivers on every one of those points.  By combining the functions of both a gateway and a controller into a single solution, we’ve enabled companies to cut hardware costs and reduce network deployment and management time significantly.»

About the Edgecore Wireless Multi-Access Business Gateway

The Edgecore Wireless MBGs provide a robust set of features and functions making them ideal wireless network infrastructure solutions for SMBs and enterprises.  To ensure maximum system reliability, the Wireless MBGs support WAN failover to ensure network availability, load balancing to optimize network performance, advanced roaming to ensure seamless mobility across subnets, and VoWLAN Quality of Service to deliver true voice quality over wireless.

Access control can be enforced on a per-user and per-user group basis including controls for firewalls, bandwidth limitations and scheduling.  Client management can be controlled via multiple user groups and multiple service zones.  Management of access points is centralized giving administrators the ability to configure, control and manage multiple types of access points.

Offering a host of security capabilities, the Wireless MBG can authenticate users based upon a built-in local/on-demand database or by accessing an external authentication database.  The system supports local VPN, remote VPN and site-to-site VPN, and provides additional security through WPA, rogue AP detection, wireless intrusion detection and prevention.

LG-Nortel is a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel. Established in 2005, LG-Nortel provides leading edge telecommunications equipment and network solutions, spanning wired and wireless technologies, to service provider and enterprise customers in Korea and around the world. LG-Nortel is also actively developing next generation solutions for global markets, with over 750 skilled R&D engineers currently focused on wireless broadband technology evolution and the development of powerful new product lines. For more information on LG-Nortel, visitwww.lg-nortel.com.

About Edgecore Networks, Inc.

Edgecore Networks, Inc., formerly SMC Networks and now a joint venture between LG-Nortel and Accton Technology, is a global manufacturer of application-driven performance networking solutions designed to meet and exceed partner requirements and maximize return on investment.  Our market focuses include providing solutions for SMB & enterprise LAN networks, hospitality and other MxU environments, and Metro Ethernet technology for value conscious service providers.  

Edgecore Networks features a robust portfolio of networking solutions that includes managed SMB/E switches, Metro Access solutions and a variety of business-class WiFi solutions, all tied together through an advanced network management system.  Leveraging SMC Networks’ 33-year legacy of channel loyalty, profitability, advanced technology, and dedicated partner support, Edgecore Networks provides its channel partners with a reseller program that is backed by a full complement of end-to-end networking solutions and is designed to maximize return-on-investment and increase profitability.

For more information, visit Edgecore Networks at:http://www.edgecorenetworks.com.

© 2010 Edgecore Networks, Inc.  Edgecore Networks and the Edgecore Networks logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Edgecore Networks in the United States and/or other countries. Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Information is subject to change without notice. All rights reserved.

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As Oklahoma Western sought to increase the performance and efficiency of its mobile network, it turned to Tecore for its expertise and track record in delivering the latest in network innovation for the rural cellular carrier market. Tecore analyzed the current state of the network, recommended and then implemented a comprehensive upgrade to enable Oklahoma Western to introduce new services over time, in line with subscriber demand. The upgrade entailed:

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The Network Implementation Engineer has the technical responsibility for the client’s network environment, for implementation and change tasks, projects, providing technical network skills to the delivery centers and the Customers. This team contributes to project related activities by implementing planned network changes, HW refreshes or support complex network migrations involving different teams or solve complex incident outages. You may become a NW technology champion on NW technologies (WAN, LAN, Security) or take a NW customer specialist role (unique technologies, processes) to provide special expertise, care, handle priority cases and share knowledge.

• Manage and implement complex NW changes as part of a project implementation or execute NW normal, non-standard and routine changes (LAN, WAN and Security)

• Perform various NW migrations or new device implementations (SW, Routers, LoadBalancers, Firewalls, VPN devices, …)

• From a technical perspective you will work with TCP/IP, Security, LAN, WAN – devices and technologies: VLAN routing, VTP, Spanning Tree, BGP, MPLS, ISDN, VPN, SSL, HSRP, Cisco, HP ProCurve, Nokia, Checkpoint firewall, Alcatel, 3Com, Blade, FWSM, Nortel VPN concetrators, Juniper, CISCO ASA, Wireless, F5 Big IP, CISCO LB, ACE, CSS, Foundry, Zeus, CSM, WAN accelerators, IDS/IPS, …)

• Understands, synthesis and clarifies customer need

• Proactive to anticipate issues or situations which impact service quality, adapts quickly to new technology & understands complex infrastructures

• Work according to the procedures and best practices of HP MSDD EMEA Networks.

• Set up all processes and documentation required to support a new HPMS customer

• Strictly follows Move to Production (M2P) process including to check that tools and documentation are up to date

• Perform investigation on new technology, help inbound project managers and other support team to introduce new technology, capacity planning & performance management

• Acts as point of contact for customers and Delivery Leads for complex technical issues.

• Analyzes and solves complex incidents involving several different & remote support teams, Identify root cause of incidents and make appropriate recommendation to avoid future failure

• At least 3 years experience in IT operations and Network operations

• Cisco Certification to at least Network Associate (CCNA) or equivalent experience, CCNP is an advantage

• Experience in troubleshooting a broad range of network technologies, strong expertise in at least one specific network technology

• Ability to work effectively in diverse and multi-cultural environments

• Ability to communicate complex technical contents plainly and simply in English

• Strong technical knowledge including Networking,

• Team player: Ability and willingness to motivate and support others

• Strong consulting skills, flexibility and resourcefulness

• Ability to communicate and present in a effective way

• Analytical and complex incident solving skills, ability to coordinate complex network changes or projects involving several different support teams, ability to meet deadlines

• This position is based in Slovakia – Bratislava, relocation on your own costs will be needed

• Contract permanent with 3 months of probation period

• Working time: standard office hours, no shifts, however regular standby will be expected

• Salary offered: will be agreed based on candidate`s experience

• Interviewing process: 1st interview over the phone, then 2nd interview in person in Bratislava

• Apply by using this link: https://hp.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=289552

• If any information is needed, please, contact daniel.matuska@hp.com

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Typically, many older workers, or ‘digital immigrants’, talk about their comfort zone. They find comfort in a hierarchical, command and control management structure. They are good communicators, who like to think, plan and do – in that order. They favour a top-down approach and generally like to play safe. Many of our senior managers fit into the digital immigrant generation.

Digital natives, on the other hand, prefer a guiding and nurturing environment. They do not want instructions handed down from on-high. They are great communicators and great networkers. But they do it differently. Digital tools and social media are like extensions of themselves. This emerging generation thinks acts and communicates quickly. They like engagement and like to try things out. They harness their team’s collective experience and skills in order to find solutions. It’s all about communicating. Many of the people now joining the workforce are digital natives.

The old way and the new?

The old way uses intranets or websites as static sites. Staff can search and find, but have limited ability to contribute. The new way is interactive and collaborative and uses social media such as Social networks (e.g. Facebook), Blogs, Discussion Forums and Wikis.

Social media tools definitely add value to employee communications. They can help build relationships, increase collaboration, improve productivity, reduce silos, and build engagement. They also offer an excellent means to share ideas and gather qualitative feedback.

So why is social media sometimes so hard to implement as an internal communications tool?

Communicators understand the power of social media but their senior managers, who are often digital immigrants, remain wary and unconvinced. Are these the arguments that you are hearing?

A CIO magazine’s study,Top Technology Priorities found that even IT professionals don’t consider Web 2.0 a priority. They’re focused on network consolidation, outsourcing, CRM, and security. This would seem to back up management’s assertion that Intranet 2.0 needs to take a back seat.

Point out that Web 2.0 tools are already commonplace. Innovative companies are already leveraging the power of these tools. Many social media tools are easy and relatively cheap to implement. They don’t need to compete with major IT plans.

Don’t make sweeping claims when you are proposing social media tools. Managers don’t want to hear about social media democratizing the organization. They want to know how business goals will be supported. So use language the CEO will understand and focus on concrete goals where possible.

Spot opportunities and start with small simple projects. Provide evidence of success before proposing a wider implementation.

Do your homework. Support your proposal for a wider implementation with case studies. IBM, Sun Microsystems and the hundreds of other Fortune 500 companies are already successfully wielding these tools.

Choose web 2.0 channels that have been specifically designed for employee communication. Use low cost communications channels that are quick and easy to implement and manage.

Use a platform that is easy for IT to implement and has little need for ongoing IT support.

Choose a platform that allows access rights to be targeted to specific staff groups.

Ensure centralised reporting allows you to easily quantify the value of the web 2.0 channels and demonstrate their strategic communications value to senior managers.

Try a free trial or low cost pilot to test concepts out prior to a more comprehensive commitment to social media as an internal communications channel.

Management quite rightly recognizes that communicators are already overworked. They might also voice concerns about the cost of the tools and the lack of support resources.

Explain tools that assist internal communications assist you.

As for the tools being hungry on money and resources, explain that generally these tools are relatively inexpensive and require little time to set up. Rather then worrying about the return on investment in financial terms the focus should be on what can be gained from making them available.

To keep costs down, lease a Web 2.0 solution. This allows you to leverage developments based on learning from other organisations.

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Many people are looking forward to watching the football world cup this summer, and those lucky enough to have bagged tickets will soon be getting ready to pack their bags to fly out to South Africa for the games. In anticipation of the influx of visitors, South Africa is putting extra measures in place to protect both tourists and business travellers heading to South Africa this summer from criminals, with  government plans to introduce a fast-track system that will enable travellers  to give evidence while still in the country if, for example, they are physically attacked.

However, large-scale sporting events in the past have also attracted another type of criminal – the payment fraudster. With thousands of people descending on one place at the same time, South Africa will experience a huge surge in financial transactions, both card and cash-based, which makes it an especially attractive target for fraudsters. The problem of card fraud in South Africa is already well documented.  According to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre, counterfeit card fraud was the most costly type of fraud in 2009 having increased by 22 per cent to R144 million . There are, however, a number of steps that visitors can take to reduce the likelihood of falling victim to fraud.

Before leaving the country for a business trip, travellers should tell their bank that they are going to South Africa. That way, the bank will know that it is actually their customer using their card at a foreign ATM or retailer, and prevents legitimate transactions being stopped incorrectly. It also means the banks can look out for specific local fraud trends, and identify them as soon as possible. In addition, they should also make sure they have the bank’s lost or stolen card emergency numbers to hand, so they can contact the bank without delay in case of a fraud incident.

Travellers  should also take at least one alternative to their main bank card with them to South Africa and keep it in the hotel safe or another secure place. In doing so, they will have another means of withdrawing money or making payments should their main card become compromised.  

When they are actually making purchases overseas, it is important that cardholders never let their bank card out of their sight as skimming commonly used to generate counterfeit cards. Skimming a card can be done in seconds therefore, in a restaurant for example, if the waiter cannot conduct the payment at the table, it may be wise to accompany them to the payment terminal. While this may feel awkward, it could make the difference between falling victim to fraud or not. What’s more, corporate travellers  should check all receipts and statements when making a purchase, particularly when dealing with foreign currencies and again when they are back at home to make sure they have been charged correctly, and that cards have not been compromised.

If using cards to take out cash, travellers  must be aware of ATM fraud. Criminals in South Africa have a lot of experience targeting the unsuspecting visitors  at ATMs, and some criminals in the country have started filming people entering their PIN. Therefore, they should also hide their PIN, and also be wary of devices that could be attached to the ATM card slot or the keypad. Ideally, ATMs should also be used in daylight hours and in busy locations to minimise the risk of muggings once cash has been dispensed.

Banks in South Africa will no doubt be taking all possible measures to protect people travelling on business as well as football fans, but by taking these sensible precautions, the public will stand the best chance of preventing themselves from falling victim to fraud and ensuring a hassle-free trip.

The top tips to protecting yourself against card fraud can be downloaded from www.stop-card-fraud.com .

Source: http://www.abtn.co.uk

1. Almost 200M employees work remotely (off their desk)

2. 65% of users do not backup their data before they start the travel

3. 90% of users do not backup their data while on the move

Add the facts together and you will deduce that companies lose gigabytes of critical data every week at US airports.

Since enterprise data today is more dispersed and diverse than ever before, one can hardly hold the end user responsible for protection of this critical corporate data. Remote or mobile employees also have valid reasons for failing to take a backup like limited bandwidth and inability of the backup softwares to work well over WAN/Internet.

A reason for the former is the huge amount of data duplication that occurs between corporate users. Not surprisingly, over 80% of data across corporate PCs (emails/docs etc.) is duplicate – and its this duplication that chokes bandwidth and storage.

To add to the woes, most existing softwares have a server triggered backup mechanism that spells trouble for the mobile executive connected to the company’s infrastructure using WAN. Since the PC/laptop does not have a fixed IP address, the server can’t reach it and hence the backup fails.

The above statistics clearly indicate the importance of enterprises having a Data Protection Solution and Data Leakage Prevention Solution on every single PC and laptop. It is also suggested that these solutions should provide:

1. Smart bandwidth prioritization – Sets only a percentage of bandwidth for backup

2. Super Secure – SSL encryption over WAN/VPN for backup

3. WAN Optimization – Automatic Network sensing for choosing appropriate packet size and bandwidth.

4. Data Deduplication – enables enterprises to save a single copy of duplicate content saving up to 80% of backup time, bandwidth and storage.

Michelle Smith is a software professional and through this article she wants to share her experience in the IT field. She is employed with Druva.com, which has released two award winning products – Druva inSync and Druva Phoenix . The former, a fully automated laptop backup software, protects corporate data for office and remote users while Druva Phoenix, an enterprise class product, enables non-disruptive disk-to-disk backup for local and remote servers. Druva is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital, Indian Angel Network (IAN), and Accord International (HK).

Case study on “Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops” sponsored by Dell

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This is revolutionary for most new product development teams: candidate projects are no longer subject to the traditional committee-driven, silo approach where information cascades down to developers and filters back up to the client for sign-off.

Instead, BT assembles project teams that consist of every manager and producer relevant to the proposed project, in a space in its Adastral building near Ipswich, Suffolk, the headquarters of BT’s network of global development centres. This gets all the decision makers in the room so that ideas can be debated, tested and signed off during the meeting. Teams work in two- or three-week ’sprints’ on very short-term goals, and no one project is dated longer than 90 days.

“All I ask is that you give me your gold-plated developers, the best you have, for three weeks while we go through three or four iterations of your system,” says Alan Bateman, director of next generation engineering in BT’s research and development division, Innovate & Design (I&D), who is responsible for implementing the new approach worldwide.

To make collaboration and documentation across distances and time zones easier, BT has developed a ‘collaboration cell’ from off-the-shelf components. These consist of two video cameras, one to show what’s on the touch-sensitive whiteboard and one to show the people seated at the conference table. The conference table itself has directional microphones to transmit voice as well as jacks for plugging in laptops and other devices.

The entire system works on standard 2mbps telephone lines, which helps to keep costs to about £20,000 per cell. “The cost of dedicated videoconferencing centres with dedicated MPLS networks meant we could probably afford about two,” says Bateman.

BT now plans to install hundreds in its development centres in Adastral, Pune (India), Delian (China), Dallas and central Europe, as well as smaller centres such as Cardiff and Edinburgh.

BT is also fixing hygiene factors by revamping offices, adding colours that energise developers, more open spaces where people can congregate to share ideas, and ensuring canteen food is plentiful, attractive and cheap.

BT has some 20,000 development staff around the world, as well as clients in most countries, many of which operate in many countries. Co-ordinating people, skills sets, time zones and timeframes was a nightmare. “It was getting harder to deliver,” says Bateman. But the risk was not about getting anything wrong as such, but rather not delivering customer satisfaction, he says.

The £1bn losses in 2008 at Global Services, one of the main users of BT’s global development centres, is likely to have cemented the conviction that things needed to change.

The money to be had in the different communications markets has encouraged BT to be a customer in core network technology, and to make its money from services. In BT’s latest results, for 2Q09, Openreach earned £513m on revenues of £1.3bn, while Global Services earned £123m on revenues of £2.1bn. The difference in margins, 39% as against 6%, also indicated the need for a step change in productivity.

The first ‘total emersion’ project to use the new process was the roll-out of BT’s 21st Century Network (21CN) next generation network. Russell Strevens, technical director of BT’s Openreach division, which runs 21CN, estimates it took less than half the expected time to develop; absorbed a raft of critical changes of decision during its lifecycle; and still gave an 80% return on investment in its first year.

This capacity to deliver quick results, to accommodate late changes and to deliver fast pay-back, persuaded management that agile development is the way to go.

Bateman says using modern software development techniques to develop new communications products was specially apt. “Most telecommunications is now an app,” he says, a reference to the converging nature of data, voice and image traffic, aided by platforms such as 21CN.

Very often, the biggest difficulty in an ICT project is knowing what problem you are trying to address. Sometimes, simply tuning the infrastructure can pay huge dividends, says John Wittegreffe, chief ICT researcher at BT Innovate and Design.

Wittegreffe and colleague Jon Clark are developing a universal testbed that models a firm’s global IT applications and infrastructures. It also provide a dashboard that reflects their key performance indicators so that they can examine the effects of changes in real time.

Wittegreffe says CIOs can use the system to assure the performance of key business applications to agreed levels. To speed things up they can use data reduction and compression techniques to cut the amount of data passed across networks. This can help to cut bandwidth demands by 30% to 90%, lowering network costs and deliver Lan-like performance across long Wans. They can also use it to schedule just in time access to cloud IT resources so that they pay only for the processing they need.

BT has already used the testbed to help Global Services to fine-tune systems for about 50 customers, he says. Putting the testbed on a mobile phone potentially allows CIOs or operations managers to run their shops remotely, or at least to received alarms when things go out of spec.

Andy Miles, specialist technology consultant at Adastral, is also working on virtual dashboards, using XML-driven widgets to represent real-time status conditions such as weather.

Built in Adobe Air to link to Flash to generate moving images, the prototype provides an easy to use approach to set up virtual displays of data from sources that can produce an XML feed. Global Services managers are playing with the tool to monitor the state of their networks, he says. “We can do this for any system that produces an XML feed, even HR,” he says.

It is hard to find out what people are really saying about you or your company, and what you don’t know can really hurt you.

Short of paying a clipping agent a fortune to scan the media, blogs and social networks, most companies rely on luck. That’s not good enough, says Simon Thompson, a chief researcher and responsible for Debatescape, an early warning tool that scans the electronic media for mentions of BT, and collates and categorises it for managers.

Still in its infancy, Debatescape picks up threads on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook that discuss issues such as poor customer service incidents so that, if appropriate, managers can take direct action with the author.

BT is treating the system as a customer service resolution issue. Managers are already addressing some 3,000 cases a month through the pilot version of Debatescape. “We are now thinking of how to ‘operationalise’ it as part of the business process,” Thompson says.

BT’s 21st Century Network (21CN) is an end-to-end Internet Protocol (IP)-based network. It consolidates 17 separate network platforms into one. It replaces the complex network and systems infrastructure with a physically simpler and more reliable network, to ensure the delivery of the next generation of converged services faster, more efficiently and more cost-effectively.

21CN is a single network infrastructure that supports voice, data, internet and video services. In this world, services are applications, so voice is simply one of many applications running on a common platform, and the systems, services and management processes are shared between the apps.

It required BT to replace the equipment infrastructure in its telephone exchanges across the country.

Source:http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/04/20/240971/bt-adastral-moves-to-lean-software-development.htm

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