I was invited to deliver the keynote and moderate the Wall Street Technology Associations (WSTA) Hot Technologies conference in early October.  I spoke on network security, IP telephony and hosted IP services offerings and provided an assessment on what's hot and what's not.  You can download my presentation and listen to the keynote here.  Enjoy, Nick

Zeus Kerravala of the Yankee Group joins me to discuss Riverbed�s successful IPO, the rumors that Juniper is up for sale, the dismal performance of Interop in NY and the future of conferences in our industry.  Riverbed is valued at 3 to 4 times that of Packeteer, Force 10 and Mitel are scheduled to IP in early �07 is the IPO market back for networking companies?  You bet, listen in to find out which networking companies will have a successful IPO in �07, who may buy Juniper and how the IT competitive landscape is changing.

Brendan Hannigan, Chief Operating Officer of Q1 Labs joins the podcast to discuss the state of the network security industry.  Access control, compliance, internal data theft and integrating security data from point products are security projects being funded by most enterprises.  Brendan and I review these projects and put forward a network security strategy for rapidly containing security incidents thanks to analytics which can process tens of thousands of alarms per second while searching for anomalous behavior, delivering remediation options to security ops. If you�re looking to bring order and greater control to your security ops by integrating management and monitoring of multiple point security products, then listen in and learn. 

In this fourth and final special edition “Lessons Learned� podcast, Mr. John Poole, President and CEO, and Mr. Mike Taylor, CTO, both of Strategic Products and Services, discuss their experience, both pro and con, about deploying VoIP networks for 1000s of companies. As one of the largest system integrators in the VoIP space John and Mike have seen it all and they offer up a wealth of lessons learned for any company at any life cycle point of a Mike Taylorconverged network. Issues such as WAN provisioning, PoE budget planning, the top five issues that negatively impact voice service quality and more are discussed. The first three podcasts in this series are available in the Lippis Report Download Library. This is a must listen podcast for corporations serious about implementing VoIP. Special thanks to Viola Networks for sponsoring the “Lessons Learned� series. Enjoy, Nick