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   			<title><![CDATA[ Q&A: What You Should Know About Session Border Controllers, but Were Afraid to Ask]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ With Session Initiation Protocol trunks becoming foundational to a unified communications environment, enterprise-based session border controllers can complement those from service providers, because they can increase security between networks and devices, and enable more functionality and control. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Technology Overview: Mobile M2M Network in Japan]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Moves are starting in Japan to make commercial use of the ubiquitous wireless machine-to-machine network in the country. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Planning for Pervasive Video: How to Survive and Succeed]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Desktop and tablet video cannot scale to pervasive levels without a policy-managed approach to call admission control. Enterprises need to start challenging unified communications and telephony vendors to propose a call control strategy for video for current and planned video endpoints. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ A 14-Point Decision Framework for Evaluating Fabric-Based Infrastructure]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The economy and lack of growth in IT budgets are driving vendors to vertically integrate to meet goals for growth. This 14-point framework can help IT organizations decide whether to move to prepackaged, tested fabric-based infrastructure, integrate best-of-breed components or something in between. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus for Microsoft: Office 365 for Cloud Unified Communications]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Office 365 will be Microsoft's next-generation cloud-based UC offering, succeeding its Business Productivity Online Services (and previous generations). Starting with e-mail as the anchor and most mature application, users will incrementally add other communications and collaboration capabilities. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Microsoft Office: Buy It or Use It From Office 365 'in the Cloud?']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Office 365 provides office capabilities without licensing the full Office product or having to deploy and maintain the Office software and infrastructure. In some cases, money can be saved versus traditional licensing methods; in others; more money will be spent for the service. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Choosing Trusted Portals for Secure External Collaboration]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A growing variety of trusted products facilitate the sharing of sensitive information with external parties, partners, legal and financial advisors, business partners, and regulatory parties. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Introduction to Board of Directors Communications Systems]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Board communication systems are high-assurance, Web-accessible portals that enable the corporate secretary to share and discuss highly sensitive document-based information with external board members. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Analyze Video Usage to Support Business Goals and Document Success]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Interviews with leaders of video content management and delivery projects in organizations show that analyzing video is in its earliest stages. Flexibility and creativity is the key to featuring and execution -- not canned "reports." ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Social Software and Collaboration, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Our 2011 agenda will cover the promising, but disruptive, ways in which social media and a new generation of technologies are changing business; and the incremental evolution of communication and collaboration initiatives. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ TRAI's Proposal for India's National Broadband Network: A Plan for a Plan]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ India's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has proposed an aggressive plan for a national broadband network deployment to resolve years of delay and the lack of infrastructure. However, in the near term, enterprises must make their network capacity demands from communications service providers. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Predicts 2011: Network Capacity and Consumers Impact Mobile and Wireless Technologies]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Our wireless and mobile predictions revolve around two key themes: the expansion of network capacity, and the invasion of consumer technology -- something enterprises are embracing, with new application ideas fueled by widespread individual adoption. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ IT Market Clock for Communications Services, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As communications services move through their life cycles, commoditization increases and buyer values change. At each successive stage, standardization increases, more suppliers are available and skill levels become less specialized. This IT Market Clock provides a framework for managing these transitions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Enterprise Network Services, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cost optimization, convergence of services and emphasis on outsourcing are evolving in network service offerings and their adoption by IT organizations. Further collaboration and emphasis are expected on network services, outsourcing, and management of communication and enterprise networks. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Communications Service Provider Business Strategy, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gartner's Key Issues for CSP business strategy deal with strategies to maximize growth opportunities presented by the global economic recovery, as CSPs transform their businesses to adapt to the fast-changing and highly competitive communications environment. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ What Is Unified Communications, and How Should You Approach It?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Unified communications is a term that is not well understood, and is sometimes misused by vendors that want to leverage its popularity. This research answers several commonly asked questions about UC. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cost Cutting by Telecom Expense Management Services]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Organizations need to gain a comprehensive, centralized understanding of the usage and costs of their communication devices and services. One way to gain such understanding is for organizations to immediately start investigating the use of telecom expense management services. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cost Cutting Options for IP Videoconferencing]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprises can realize a faster return on investment and lower total cost of ownership by migrating IP videoconferencing to customer-owned multipoint control units. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ High-Definition Videoconferencing Moves to the Forefront]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Videoconferencing vendors continue to enhance their HD portfolios as organizations become interested in HD solutions. However, the HD videoconferencing market is still in its early maturity phase, and so far, market penetration of these systems is only in the single digits. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Framework Used to Calculate Return on Investment for Videoconferencing Systems]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Travel is usually the No. 1 expense that organizations consider when calculating return on investment for the deployment of videoconferencing systems. Many other expenses, although difficult to valuate, must be considered.  ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Contact Center Infrastructure, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As the global economy begins to recover, many companies are reviewing their contact center operational goals to match changing environments. This Hype Cycle will help you to match your contact center infrastructure investment planning with your operational goals. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Networking and Communications, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise network planners must focus on building capabilities for intelligent networking, mobility, unified communications, cloud computing and video. These are the essential new technologies to watch. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Enterprise Communication Applications, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The nature of communications is changing. Workers will focus on amenability for communication at a particular time, location or context, and use multiple communications technologies and applications such as telephony, mobile, e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, voice, video or Web conferencing. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This report analyzes evolving trends in information and communication technology in India and the degree of current and projected adoption of various technologies by Indian enterprises. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Communications Service Provider Infrastructure, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This report covers key technologies for communications service provider networks in the light of the austere economic conditions under which continued innovation toward higher bandwidth, more mobility and increased use of video must be realized. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Communications Service Provider Operations, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ CSPs must save costs and raise revenue by streamlining back offices, improving the customer experience, supporting new business models and offering new solutions. This report will help CIOs and CTOs assess available technologies. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Consolidation in the midrange and high-end network-attached storage market continued in 2010, while new solutions emerged, increasing competition. Users should evaluate NAS products based on their business needs, workload characteristics, vendor capabilities and infrastructure strategy. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure (Global)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Standards-based connectivity between access points and devices is no longer a unique feature of vendors in this Magic Quadrant. Enterprises must choose infrastructure providers that can deliver network services (such as voice, video and location) and integrate wired networking products. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The wide-area network optimization controller market is maturing rapidly, but remains dynamic, with a high level of innovation from vendors. Organizations looking to acquire WOC capabilities should identify their specific needs and conduct real-life trials before committing to any purchase. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Telecom Expense Management]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The worldwide market for third-party services to manage telecom expenses is growing as demand increases from businesses of all sizes. This market is undergoing a profound maturation process as both large and small communications service providers and outsourcers introduce TEM offerings. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, North America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ UCaaS is a cloud-based delivery of integrated communications capabilities spanning voice, messaging, conferencing and presence. Businesses should view UCaaS as an emerging alternative to premises-based UC platforms for improving productivity, processes and workflow. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pressure placed on prices in the Web-conferencing market by cloud collaboration suites is accelerating consolidation and causing leading vendors to rethink their go-to-market pricing strategies. In light of these developments, Gartner assesses 15 providers of Web-conferencing products. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for U.S. Telecommunications Service Providers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Mobile/wireless technology is driving growth and profitability, and it is becoming integral in sourcing decisions. Wireline price erosion continues to slow for all but high-capacity circuits. Carriers that combine wireless and wireline provide better pricing and services than pure-play carriers. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ MarketScope for Enterprise Instant Messaging and Presence]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise instant messaging and presence is an integral part of a unified communications and collaboration offering. Controlling the presence engine is a competitive advantage for UCC vendors. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Corporate Telephony]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pressure on budgets and growing interest in the market for unified communications are influencing buyer decisions for telephony. Organizations with broad collaboration strategies are likely to select telephony as part of a UC and collaboration bundle; others will focus on telephony as a discrete solution. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Unified communications offers the ability to improve how individuals, groups and companies interact and perform tasks. Enterprise planners and managers should review how this emerging generation of communications software and systems can improve their business operations and processes. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ MarketScope for IVR Systems and Enterprise Voice Portals]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Organizations continue to prefer voice response solutions that use Internet standards and voice portal technologies. Market consolidation drives improved integration among voice self-service, Web self-service, live-agent functions and business process management. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for LTE Network Infrastructure]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This Magic Quadrant evaluates end-to-end vendors of Long Term Evolution network infrastructure, in what is still a nascent market with many vendors and scope for further consolidation. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Softswitch Architecture]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In a capital-constrained market, control layer investments come from mobile network service providers as well as voice over Internet Protocol rollouts in emerging markets. This update describes market conditions and aspects of our latest forecast. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Enterprise Communications and Network Services, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise communications and networking vendors continue to develop innovative solutions that cut infrastructure and deployment costs, improve efficiency, and increase accessibility of unified communications and collaboration. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus: Cisco's VXI Solution and Endpoint Device Strategy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ At its 2010 Collaboration Summit, Cisco spotlighted its Virtualization Experience Infrastructure solution, which integrates several Cisco technologies. VXI will be part of Cisco's virtualization and collaboration solutions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus for Cisco: Unified Communications and Collaboration]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Cisco Collaboration Summit 2010 provided updates about initiatives launched in 2009, including new endpoint devices and social tools. Cisco elaborated on its video direction, and offered details about its overall unified communications and collaboration strategy. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Ericsson]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Ericsson is a solid vendor of infrastructure, software and services. Its installed base in the all-important wireless segment remains a competitive advantage, but challenges to its leadership remain. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: BT Group]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ BT Group has made significant progress toward improving its business, while a renewed focus on key industries and products boosts the company's more positive outlook. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Alcatel-Lucent]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Alcatel-Lucent's rating is "promising" despite its financial position, sub-scale premises-based enterprise business and global mobile market challenges. It has solid products and services, good strategy and organization and delivers well, with a clear, holistic vision, unlike some of its key rivals. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: ZTE]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In this update, we maintain ZTE's "Promising" rating. ZTE has continued to grow despite the financial crisis and a harsh environment, largely due to its strong position in emerging markets. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Avaya]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Avaya's Positive rating is based on continued strength in unified communications, telephony, contact center and integration with business processes, even as the continued integration of assets acquired from Nortel, and competition with vendors in the data and collaboration markets remain priorities. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Huawei]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Huawei has grown rapidly and become a leading network infrastructure vendor. To continue growing it needs continual investment in regions like North America, and in areas such as services, applications and industry-specific verticals. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Deutsche Telekom]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ DT has changed since we last assessed it: its fixed and mobile businesses in Germany have merged, its corporate-customer arm has performed better, and its U.K. mobile business has merged with Orange's U.K. mobile unit. The company has also refreshed its overall strategy, though challenges remain. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: AT&T]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ AT&T's broad portfolio of services positions it as one of the few choices for global communications services, but enterprise customers are still demanding simpler contracts, more responsiveness on billing problems and improved ownership of post-install issues. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Siemens Enterprise Communications]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Siemens Enterprise Communications is a joint venture between The Gores Group and Siemens AG. SEN has undergone restructuring to make its attractive portfolio of products and services more competitive, yet it still faces challenges in unified communications, in positioning itself for growth. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise networking cool vendors don't have the mind share and sales capacity to compete with larger providers, but their solutions support more interoperability and versatility in deployment modes. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Enterprise Communications Applications, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Consolidation of the enterprise communications market has not hampered the development of innovative solutions that reduce deployment costs, and improve operating efficiencies and accessibility of unified communications. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Cisco]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gartner gives Cisco a Positive rating as the company continues to expand its core businesses and explore new opportunities in technology market transitions. Expect Cisco to accelerate its broad push into video in 2010, where it sees itself well positioned for growth. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Consolidation in the midrange and high-end network-attached storage market continued in 2010, while new solutions emerged, increasing competition. Users should evaluate NAS products based on their business needs, workload characteristics, vendor capabilities and infrastructure strategy. ]]></description>
		
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