SMB Tech News Today; INTEROP Day 4

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May 24, 20072 mins

I'm out of here in a few hours, and I'm one of the few press nerds who stayed this long. As a result, they're aren't many brand-spanking-new today press announcements this late in the show. So here are a few more SMB news bits from earlier this week. * Netgear into SMB hardware spewage, too. I blogged on how D-Link was spewing out new SMB hardware, but they're not the only ones. Netgear is pumping out new produc

I’m out of here in a few hours, and I’m one of the few press nerds who stayed this long. As a result, they’re aren’t many brand-spanking-new today press announcements this late in the show. So here are a few more SMB news bits from earlier this week.

* Netgear into SMB hardware spewage, too. I blogged on how D-Link was spewing out new SMB hardware, but they’re not the only ones. Netgear is pumping out new products, too. They’ve got a new ProSafe Wireless Switch (OEM partner is rumored to be Trapeze who do this REALLY well), they hyper-COOL ReadyNAS that Negear got off its Infrant acquisition (this thing is fast, does 1-3TB and can be setup by almost anyone, tho probably not Sasquatch Venezia) and they announced a partnership with Avaya to provide a custom end-to-end VoIP bundle to SMB customers via their reseller channel. Not to mention some new stackable gigabit switches, updated WiFi access points and some other goodies.

* Samsung does SMB voice comm appliance. The family is the OfficeServ line and has both 7100 & 7200 model numbers. Basic specs for both are complete voice-in-a-box. VoIP and/or POTS, wired or wireless handsets, voicemail, PBX functions and even some unified messaging features like syncing vmail with users’ Outlook inboxes. To be available near the end of Summer 2007. Price is apparently TBD.

* Raritan shows off new KVM super-box. These guys make some of the best keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) controllers in the biz. The new Dominion KX II does KVM over IP, has a new browser config/mgmt UI, a slick new virtual KVM desktop and supports things like remote USB on managed end points. Way cool, and they’re even offering a trade-in discount program for existing Raritan customers.

* Wedge does SMB security appliance. It’s called the BeSecure NDP-2040NX. Does gigabit-level networking, scans for AV and AM, does deep packet inspection, handles mucho protocols, etc. Real sweet little box with a price that’s nice, tho most likely more for the MB set.