home services products reports newsroom company Does Your Product NetWORK As Advertised? Inquire about custom Performance Verified testing Welcome to Miercom Our website lets you download the latest test reports, view recently published articles, find out more about our special publications, and read news from within Miercom and the network testing industry. If we can be of any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us. News and Events Cisco's Certified Green Award 2008 04.29 At the Las Vegas Networld+Interop show Cisco Systems announces that it is the first to receive Miercom's "Certified Green" testing certification for its Catalyst ® 3750-E, 3560-E, 3750, 3560 and 2960 Series switches. These have achieved certification because of their efficient power draw, high-efficiency power supply and intelligent power management capabilities in addition to product-based efficiencies such as VLAN and remote management features.  Read more about the award here IP Call Centers: Basics and Beyond 2006.11.06 Leading IP Contact Centers show their commitment to basics and advanced management in the Miercom 2006 review of Aspect Software, Avaya, Cisco, Genesys, Interactive Intelligence, Intervoice, Mitel, Nortel, and Siemens. See the full article from BCR's November issue.  read more The Power and the Purpose 2006.11.06 Miercom has reviewed today's highly functional multimedia conferencing and collaboration (MMC) software from LINQware Communications, Genesys Conferencing and WebEx Communications. MMC products are merging into single, integrated offerings making all round communications ability a thing of the present. See the full article at TMCnet.  read more Webinar: Managing Security Across the Service Provider Network 2006.10.30 Service providers have to get a handle on the threats that linger over IP services. Find out more about how to manage your IP security strategy and develop security solutions to address the concerns of your customers, in this FREE, live Webinar brought to you by Miercom, Network Insight, iPolicy, CompTel, and Xchange Magazine..  read more VoIP Tools: Look At What You Can Hear 2006.09.21 VoIP is becoming a more common service on networks, from small to enterprise. Miercom has again reviewed a roster of VoIP Analysis Tools (VATs) for another NetworkWorld Clear Choice Test. Read more of the features that allow you to look at how your VoIP sounds.  read more Avaya's MVE: A Bundle of Advantage 2006.08.17 Avaya's newly released MultiVantage Express (MVE) brings a bundle of features to mid-range IP telephony. Features found in high-end systems are now in the base offering. All on a single server. See more details on MVE from the August 2006 issue of BCR.  read more SIP 2006: Update in BCR 2006.06.14 Is SIP making progress? Do SIP products interoperate? Who are the major players? Here's the results of Miercom's comprehensive industry survey and analysis of the state of SIP, excerpted here from BCR's June 2006 issue.  read more Extending Your VoIP Reach 2006.04.17 Are you going VoIP? Then there may be a Session Border Controller (SBC) in your future. Miercom reviewed four vendors of these VoIP enhancing components in a NetworkWorld Clear Choice Test. NexTone, Mera, Ditech, and Ingate are assessed on the features and security SBCs bring to VoIP.  read more SMB IP-PBX Results Are Out 2006.03.07 Need an IP PBX in the 50-to-500-stations space? Here's four solid players that Miercom reviewed in this article, from the March issue of BCR. See how the Small-to-Medium-Business (SMB) wares of Avaya, Pingtel, Vonexus and Zultys compare.  read more Cisco's Latest, Reviewed in BCR 2006.03.06 You saw it in BCR first. Here's the first published hands-on review of Cisco's broad "Unified Communications System," conducted by Miercom for publication in BCR's March 2006 issue.  read more New High-End IP-PBX Test Results Are Out 2006.01.09 Hot off the pages of Business Communications Review's January '06 issue, see the results of Miercom's comprehensive testing of high-end IP PBXs. Alcatel, Avaya, ShoreTel, Siemens, 3Com. The envelope please ...  read more Recent Reports Cisco ASA 5580 2008.08.03 Performance Verified Report "A high-performance firewall, adept at the fast processing of complex Web 2.0 traffic, from Cisco Systems was tested recently. The Cisco ASA 5580-40 demonstrated the ability to pass over 10 Gbps HTTP throughput; more than double of that achieved by its closest competitor."  read more VCX Connect 100 and VCX Connect 200 2008.08.03 Rated Best Report "There is a good reason the 3Com VXC Connect unified communications platform was Rated Best Distributed Survivability in SME 2008: The 3Com VCX Connect is a survivor. We were unable to force the VCX Connect System to drop a remote connection. The platform instantly reacted to purposeful disconnects of VCX Connect Servers, end points, power supplies and server internal processes."  read more Cisco ASR 1006 Aggregation Services Router 2008.06.01 Performance Verified Report "By proving routing capabilities of 10 Gbps throughput traffic with zero packet loss, even during route processor failover testing, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series is an outstanding network component. The Aggregation Services Router has hot swappable capabilities, as well as synchronization and upgrade of multiple firmware packages with excellent uptime results."  read more Customer Interation Express 1.0 2008.05.15 Performance Verified Report "Offering numerous features, the Customer Interaction Express from Avaya is well designed for mid-sized call centers. CIE provides tools for skills -based routing, custom desktop screens, with a Virtual Call Center function for a unified system appearance. "  read more Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite 2008.05.13 Performance Verified Report "The Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite proved to be a comprehensive, powerful and well-designed package of integrated applications for full-lifecycle management of Cisco's IP telephony products. Unlike some other similar suites, Cisco's is crafted with a savvy, business-centric approach designed to save time and money."  read more Solera Networks DS5100 Network Capture Appliances 2008.05.08 Performance Verified Report "Solera Networks DS5100 captures data at an amazing throughput rate of 8.1 Gbps. Captured data can also be replayed for analysis and trouble area remediation..."  read more Konica Minolta Bizhub vCare Device Relationship Managment System 2008.05.04 Performance Verified Report "vCare from Konica Minolta was proven to be a secure device management system. It allows uptime management of networked multifunction printers and copiers."  read more Linksys Gigabit Egthernet Smart Switches SMB class 2008.04.21 Rated Best Report "The Linksys SLM2048 48-port Gigabit Ethernet smart switch outperformed two competing switches in a Miercom test. The SLM2048 more than doubled the jumbo frame throughput of other smart switches, an achievement that reflected the device's unique new processor design. "  read more Performance and Feature Comparison of Application Delivery Appliances Cisco Ace4710, F5 BIG-IP 3400, F5 BIG-IP 6400, F5 BIG-IP 8800 2008.04.12 Competitive Test Report "In both baseline and real-world performance tests, the Cisco ACE 4710 application control appliance outperformed three other comparable units. The ACE4710 surpassed the other products in speed, featured important virtualization capabilities the others couldn’t match and proved to be extremely power-efficient."  read more Click here to visit the reports section for more of our latest additions. © 2000-2003 Miercom. All rights reserved. This page's URL: http://www.miercom.com/ http://www.miercom.com/ Privacy Policy Hand-carved in a little over 1.21623 seconds - tm

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