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MedLink International, Inc. launched a new version of its website today, located at www.medlinkus.com. The medlinkus.com website has been completely redesigned, presenting materials in a user-friendly layout that makes it easier for users to find information about the company’s products and services including MedLink Total Office EHR, MedLink TV, MedLink PACS, MedLink Chart (PHR), and the newly acquired Auto-Doc solution. In addition, the site features new tools to enhance communications with customers such as real time demo capabilities and live customer service applications.

“The newly redesigned site makes it even easier for users to find the resources they need to help build and grow their practices,” said Jim Decker, Executive Vice President of Sales, MedLink International. “The original site has seen strong growth over the last year, with thousands of monthly visitors as physicians and healthcare facilities look to find effective ways to streamline their practice through technology. The revamped site provides a better explanation of MedLink’s product offerings, including brief video demos for a clearer descriptive analysis of the company’s offerings.”

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Late last month, Cisco Systems Inc. announced its highest-performance security appliance offering to date, the new ASA 5580 Series.The ASA 5580 is a high-performance security platform that Cisco says is suitable for use as either a scalable firewall (with up to 20 Gbps of overall throughput) or as a 10,000-user remote-access concentrator for secure sockets layer (SSL) and IP security (IPsec)-based virtual private networks (VPNs).

Industry talking-heads give Cisco’s newest — and highest-performance — security appliance generally favorable marks. “[T]he new products will significantly extend Cisco’s ability to address the high end of the firewall and VPN markets. The new ASA 5580-40 will deliver an order of magnitude improvement in firewall throughput compared to the existing top-end ASA 5550 appliance,” said Andrew Braunberg, an analyst with consultancy Current Analysis.

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WatchGuard is adding SSL VPN capabilities to its Firebox line of multi-function security devices, turning them into remote access gateways for devices that don’t have IPSec clients.

The new feature is part of a 10.0 release of the operating systems for its Firebox Edge, Peak and Core devices that also includes VPN support for Windows Mobile devices. The software supports Session Initiation Protocol and H.323 as well, protocols necessary for VoIP and videoconferencing traffic through the devices.

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IBM today announced new software designed to help communications service providers improve the quality of their Internet Protocol television (IPTV), Internet Protocol virtual private networks (IP-VPN) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. The new offerings are modified versions of IBM Tivoli Netcool Service Quality Manager — tailored for one service, such as IPTV, and designed for easy installation while supporting a variety of IT environments.

Issues that plague these service providers and their customers can range from jagged audio, static or pixilated video, to delayed buffering of content and dropped transmissions altogether. In a recent IBM survey of more than 250 global telecom executives, 89 percent indicated that service quality is emerging as an important differentiator, yet nearly half said their organizations had no end-to-end service assurance capability.

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US comms developer Smith Micro has claimed at Mobile World Congress that it can provide persistent secure sessions between mobile devices and enterprise applications, even when the client device moves from one type of connection to another.

The company said this means a user could connect via the office LAN or WLAN, then move outside and switch to wireless broadband or a public hotspot, say, without having to log into the VPN or the application again.

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