John McHugh, VP and GM of ProCurve Networking by HP joins the Lippis Report podcast to discuss the network business platform and ProCurves Adaptive Network Vision. Adaptive Networking is the ProCurve industry commitment to add value to users, applications and organizations through its networking products. In this podcast John and I discuss the value delivered though Adaptive Networking and ProCurves investments are targeted toward making networking address the rapid change of business. Enjoy, Nick

Zeus Kerravala, SVP of The Yankee Group’s Enterprise Research joins Nick Lippis to discuss and define the network as the new business platform.  Networking is evolving well beyond its initial role as a connectivity service as location, unified communications, network access control, network virtualization, mobility, application fluency etc are embedded into the network fabric and are “callableâ€? entities to application developers.  This increased value in networking that can be molded and shaped by IT developers to achieve corporate goals is the genesis of the new business platform.  Zeus and I define and discuss the importance of this new role for networking within IT and the boardroom.

Arnold Solomon, Information Technologies Architect for the Southern Company joins the Lippis Report podcast to discuss its SIP phones based IP telephony deployment. The Southern Company is the largest utility company in the Southeast US and among the top 3 in the US. They have more than 85 locations served by HiPath 4000s. The Southern Co corporate HQ, which opened in downtown Atlanta in Oct 2005, features a 4000 v2 serving 600 optiPoint 420 Advanced phone sets. All users, including corporate officers, are using IP phones. They have a large deployment of SIP terminal adapters serving electric substations in GA, all off two 4000 v3s. Also installed are more than 100 Hicom 300s, which along with the 4000s serve more than 90% of all Southern Co desktops. They just introduced SIP phones in to this environment and you will want to hear what Arnold has to say about the deployment. Enjoy, Nick

I am joined by Arnold Solomon, Information Technologies Architect for the Southern Company to explore the interest in open source IP telephony.  There is a growing interest in the opening up of IP telephony architecture through the open source approach.  Arnold attended and spoke at Astricon this year and he shares his views and opinions on open source IP telephony and how Southern Company is using it.  There are lots of new companies such as Star2Star, Trixbox, Fonality, Asterisk and we talk about them all.  Enjoy Nick