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Indira calls Zara and tells her to stop searching for her and stop wasting her time, and instead come to the mandap and sees her defeat. Zara goes there.
One side one couple gets married in the presence of Rishi, and on the other side, Beera and another bride get married in front of all.
Before marriage's last and most important ritual, Rishi asks the groom to promise him that he will always keep his wife happy. The groom promises. After the wedding, Rishi congratulates the couple and it turns out to be Munna and Sugandha. He tells Munna to work hard from now and keep Sugandha happy. Munna and Sugandha take blessings from Rishi even though he's younger than Munna. Rishi feels proud as he went against hitler Indira and did this marriage. He hopes one day Indira will understand that this was the right decision.
Other hand, after Beera's marriage, Indira shows the bride's face to everyone, and it turns out to be Nanda. Everyone is shocked and surprised. Zara is hiding and watching. Indira shows thumbs down to her. Ammu gets angry at Nanda and asks her to tell where Sugandha is before she loses her control. Rishi brings married Munna and Sugandha and everyone is shocked, including Indira.

Jamna blames Indira for all this. Indira accepts that it was her who asked Nanda to come in the marriage as bride, but didn't help Sugandha in running away with Munna. Rishi says it was him and asks everyone to question him. He says he did this to save three people's lives. Jamna says, wrong, you only saved Beera and Nanda's lives. How did you save Sugandha's life? You made her marry someone who has married twice already and has children as well. Indira gets angry at Munna and goes to beat him with her sandal, but Sugandha interferes and stops Indira. She says that before she didn't say anything, but now she won't stay quiet because Munna is her husband now. Indira asks them to leave the house. Munna is surprised and says all sisters give surprise such as honeymoon tickets to her brother on his wedding, but you're asking us to leave?

Sugandha tells Ammu, I know you're very angry at me but won't you give me blessings? Munna says, she won't. Sugandha asks Munna to take her to her sasural. Munna smiles and says, I have feeling someone will stop us. Ammu shouts and says, no one will stop them. I can't keep such people in this house. Munna and Sugandha leave. Jamna is hurt.
Rishi tells Ammu, according to that, I also shouldn't be living here. Indu runs to him and says to take her with him as well because Indira is no longer with them. Jamna takes out her anger on Indira saying she provoked Sugandha to take this step. Indira has had enough and tells everyone the truth that it was Zara who did all this, not her. Rishi cannot believe it. Indira explains that she left on pooja's day because her mother got sick and she also left a note. But before Rishi reads it, Zara found it and took Indira's place. Rishi still cannot believe. Indira then tells him to ask Ammu. Ammu says, Zara was here but she was sent back to mental hospital. Rishi asks why did you hide the truth? Ammu says, for your happiness. Indira points to show everyone where Zara is, but she has already ran away from there. Indira asks Ammu's men to start searching for her in every single corner.

Veeru receives a call from Zara/Indira's number. He gives it to Rishi. Zara tells Rishi that she has been trying to call him since so long. Rishi now doubts that it's Zara in front of him and Indira on the call.

Precap: Rishi puts his phone on the speaker. Zara says, I have been trying to call you since so long and I am sorry, I left without telling you anything because my mother got sick. Rishi tells Indira, according to you, you're Indira.. and the call that I just got came from Indira's number. Then who are you?

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Thanks saumya Thumbs Up
Now that the story is moving back 2 CN
So 4rm Munna - Sugandh romance to Indur - kutumbt - romance .Dead

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ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, peripherals, software and tools, combined with the company's broad Partner community, provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.

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condor, common name for certain American vultures, found in the high peaks of the Andes of South America and the Coast Range of S California. Condors are the largest of the living birds, nearly 50 in. (125 cm) long with a wingspread of from 9 to 10 ft (274–300 cm). Voracious eaters, they prefer carrion but will attack living animals as large as deer. Two eggs are laid in a sketchy cliff nest of twigs; the young are unable to fly until they are about a year old. The Andean condor, Vultur gryphus, has black plumage with white wing patches and a white neck ruff. The lead-colored head and neck are bare; the male has a comb and wattles. The rare California condor, or California vulture, Gymnogyps californianus, is all black with white wing bands. Condors, particularly the California species (which has only recently been reintroduced into the wild), are extremely rare and on the verge of extinction. Forming long-term pair bonds, the California condor only lays one egg and does not breed until at least six years old. Condors are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Falconiformes, family Cathartidae.

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star cluster, a group of stars near each other in space and resembling each other in certain characteristics that suggest a common origin for the group. Stars in the same cluster move at the same rate and in the same direction. Two types of clusters can be distinguished—open clusters, also called galactic clusters because of their wide distribution in our galaxy (the Milky Way), and globular clusters. More than one thousand open clusters have been cataloged in the Milky Way, most of which are found in the spiral arms of the galaxy. Typically, an open cluster contains from a few dozen to a thousand loosely scattered stars and exists in a region rich in gas and dust. Among those which can be detected with the unaided eye are the Hyades cluster in the constellation Taurus, the Coma Berenices cluster, the Pleiades cluster, and the Praesepe cluster. Globular clusters are spherical aggregates of from thousands to hundreds of thousands of densely concentrated stars. Rather than lying on the galactic plane, these clusters are members of the outer halo, moving around the nucleus of our galaxy in highly inclined orbits. Because of their distribution around the galaxy, they provide an outline of its shape. About 150 globular clusters are known in the Milky Way galaxy, and others have been found in nearby galaxies. Visible to the unaided eye are Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae, both in the southern skies, and M13 in the northern sky. Star clusters are cosmologically important as a first step to understanding the distance scale of the universe (see Hyades); and theoretical astronomers use observations of globular clusters to investigate the evolution and life span of stars. Because all the stars in a particular cluster are coeval (the same age), astronomers can infer that massive stars change more rapidly over time than less massive ones. X-ray sources have been detected recently in some globular clusters. Millisecond pulsars have also been found.

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90% of U.S. Infant Formula May Be Contaminated with Melamine; FDA Abruptly Declares Chemical Safe for Babies

Mike Adams NaturalNewsDecember 2, 2008

Up to 90 percent of the infant formula sold in the United States may be contaminated with trace amounts of melamine, the toxic chemical linked to kidney damage, according to recent tests. The FDA’s test results, which the agency hid from the public and only released after the Associated Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request, showed that Nestle, Mead Johnson and Enfamil infant formula products were all contaminated with melamine.

The AP is also reporting that Abbott Laboratories conducted its own in-house tests that detected trace levels of melamine in its formula products. Together, these infant formula manufacturers make about 90 percent of the infant formula sold in the United States.

Prior to these test results being made public, the FDA had published a document on its website that explained there was no safe level of melamine contamination in infant formula. Specifically, the FDA stated, "FDA is currently unable to establish any level of melamine and melamine-related compounds in infant formula that does not raise public health concerns."

Once tests found melamine in U.S.-made formula products, however, the FDA changed its story. As of today, the FDA has now officially declared melamine to be safe in infant formula as long as the contamination level is less than one part per million (1 ppm).

Astonishingly: The FDA has no new science to justify its abrupt decision declaring melamine to be safe!

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GOOGLE, the NSA's Trojan Horse -- TWITTER: Take that, Snapchat -- NOKIA releasing Droidphone (what?) -- SPOTIFY gets the Led out -- HARLEM scores Wi-Fi blanket

December 11, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC

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>> SPY VS. SPY: NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking, by Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson, Barton Gellman: "NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ... have found particular use for a part of a Google-specific tracking mechanism known as the 'PREF' cookie. These cookies typically don't contain personal information, such as someone's name or e-mail address, but they do contain numeric codes that enable Web sites to uniquely identify a person's browser. In addition to tracking Web visits, this cookie allows NSA to single out an individual's communications among the sea of Internet data in order to send out software that can hack that person's computer. The slides say the cookies are used to 'enable remote exploitation,' although the specific attacks used by the NSA against targets are not addressed in these documents." WaPo

>>>> New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data WaPo

>> SMART READ: Why Twitter just joined the backchannel wars, by John Herrman: "In a major update, Twitter has placed Direct Messages at the center of its mobile app, with large images and an icon in the main navigation bar. In the process, it has created a true backchannel where there was barely one before.... For years, Twitter pretended it didn't have a Direct Messaging service. DMs are barely mentioned in the sign-up process; the feature was buried in Twitter apps, then buried again, until using it felt like unlocking a special feature." BuzzFeed

>> HEY HEY MAMA: Spotify said to secure exclusive deal with Led Zeppelin, by Ben Sisario: "Now, as Spotify is about to face new competition, with subscription services from YouTube and Beats Music set to arrive early next year, the company has landed another blue-chip exclusive content deal. Spotify will announce at a news conference in Manhattan on Wednesday morning that Led Zeppelin -- which has so far refused to license its music for streaming -- will join its catalog, according to people briefed on the deal who were not authorized to speak publicly about it." New York Times

>> AWKWARD: This is Nokia's Android phone, by Tom Warren: "Nokia has been building its own Android phone... Codenamed Normandy... the handset is designed as the next step in low-end phones from the Finnish smartphone maker. We understand that Nokia has been testing 'Normandy' with a special 'forked' variant of Android that's not aligned with Google's own version... Nokia has been developing the Android-powered phone despite Microsoft's plans to acquire the company's handset business. It's now unclear whether Nokia will release the handset before the Microsoft deal is finalized, or whether Microsoft will continue with the plans for the device." The Verge

>>>> Microsoft considers free versions of Windows Phone and Windows RT to battle Android The Verge

>> LOST THE FARM: Epic fail: The rise and fall of Demand Media, by Andrew Wallenstein, Todd Spangler: "The future of the so-called 'content farm' looks bleak as its search-centric biz crumbles... Not long after the company went public in January 2011, its market capitalization soared to more than $2 billion, sending the then-5-year-old firm's value briefly past that of the New York Times Co... Changes in Google's search algorithms have twice hammered the young company in recent years." Variety

>>>> Does Facebook think virality mills are the new content farms? "Sites like Buzzfeed and Upworthy -- and a growing number of imitators -- have all but perfected the science of producing stories that Facebook users can't resist sharing with their friends and 'liking.'" Forbes

>> SHIATSU GINKGO YOGA THERAPY: Glassdoor: Twitter dethrones Facebook as the best tech company to work for, ending three-year streak, by Emil Protalinski: "Career website Glassdoor today released its sixth annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best places to work for in the coming year. Twitter was elected the number one tech company to work for in 2014, displacing Facebook, which held the crown for three years straight (2011, 2012, and 2013). In fact, Facebook didn't even manage to get second place." TNW

>> GEEK ALERT: NimbleTV brings TV everywhere to New York, without permission from the TV industrial complex, by Peter Kafka: "Want to watch the TV you've already paid for, anywhere you want to watch it, whenever you want to watch it? You can't. But NimbleTV says it can change that. And the startup, which wants to attach itself to the TV Industrial Complex by delivering pay TV over the Web, says it is now open for business in the New York City area, following a year-long trial." AllThingsD

>>>> NimbleTV launches streaming cable but legal questions await Mashable

>> BACKDOOR MEN: 'We cannot trust' Intel and Via's chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say, by Dan Goodin: "Developers of the FreeBSD operating system will no longer allow users to trust processors manufactured by Intel and Via Technologies as the sole source of random numbers needed to generate cryptographic keys that can't easily be cracked by government spies and other adversaries. The change, which will be effective in the upcoming FreeBSD version 10.0, comes three months after secret documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor Edward Snowden said the US spy agency was able to decode vast swaths of the Internet's encrypted traffic. Among other ways, The New York Times, Pro Publica, and The Guardian reported in September, the NSA and its British counterpart defeat encryption technologies by working with chipmakers to insert backdoors, or cryptographic weaknesses, in their products." Ars Technica

>>>> Want to be spy-proof? 3 keys to rock-solid encryption InfoWorld

>> ACROSS 110th STREET: Harlem will soon be home to the largest Wi-Fi network in the US, by Kwame Opam: "In his final weeks as New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg today announced that Harlem will soon be the home of the largest public Wi-Fi network in the US. The network will extend a whopping 95 blocks, and will provide free wireless internet to the neighborhood's 80,000 residents -- and the crop of businesspeople the mayor hopes to attract." The Verge

>> STAT DU JOUR: 31% of Yahoo's revenue comes from Microsoft paying it to use Bing, by Brad Reed: "Bing may not be making any money for Microsoft but it seems to be doing wonders for Yahoo. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft's payouts to Yahoo in exchange for using Bing as its search engine accounted for 31% of its revenue last quarter, a surprisingly high number given that Yahoo before would only say that the Bing payouts accounted for more than 10% of its revenue." BGR

>> iBeacon pioneers Estimote raise $3.1M seed round TechCrunch

>> JAMF scores $30 million to keep helping Apple invade the enterprise CITEworld

>> Stealth networking startup VIPtela raises $33M from Sequoia AllThingsD

>> Oracle becomes sponsor of OpenStack Foundation InfoWorld

>> Vuzix develops Google Glass-like smart glasses -- but with superior optics and standard eyeframes VentureBeat

>> Meet Apache Twill, the newest member of club Hadoop InfoWorld

>> SkyDrive or SkyDrive Pro? Cut through the confusion InfoWorld

>> Norway to digitize all Norwegian books, allowing domestic IP addresses to read all of them, irrespective of copyright status TechDirt

>> Google's first data centers in Asia go online to help serve the growing Internet population TNW

>> The Pirate Bay moves to .ac after domain name seizure [So that's where they went -- Ascension Island.] TorrentFreak

>> New York asks cellphone carriers to explain why they rejected antitheft switch New York Times

>> Dell to add Chromebook 11, looks beyond Windows and Android PCWorld

>> Facebook referrals skyrocket: up 170% in past year, 47% over last month Shareaholic

>> National Security and local police Brennan Center

>> Identity-theft vulnerability fixed in Microsoft Office 365, says security firm Network World

>> 6 things you should know about Node.js InfoWorld

>> Microsoft retracts Windows 7 PC end-of-sales deadline Computerworld

>> Google is building password-free locking and unlocking into Chrome OS; use a phone, ring, watch, or badge instead TNW

>> JPMorgan patents Bitcoin-like payment system Fortune/CNN Money

>> Bitcoin this hour: $901 Mt.Gox

>> TWEET O' THE DAY: "It's not enough for Google to not be evil. Build massive infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, and evil will find you." @xor

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Adobe updates Flash Builder, Flex; unveils LiveCycle-CQ integration

Digital Enterprise platform integrates LiveCycle business process suite with CQ Web content management technology

Adobe today is releasing its Flash Builder 4.5.1 development tool and Flex 4.5.1 framework, boosting mobile application development support.

The updated products support development of applications for Android, BlackBerry, RIM PlayBook, and Apple iOS devices. The upgrades to Flash Builder and Flex mean all the major mobile OSes are now covered for the first time with Flash Builder 4.5.1 and Flex 4.5.1, Adobe said. "Using Flash Builder and Flex, enterprises can now use one tool, one framework and one code base to create high-performance applications that run on the Web and desktops as well as smartphones and tablets," Adobe said in a statement. Flex Builder is Eclipse-based, while Flex is an open source framework.

Adobe is also rolling out its Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform, which is geared to "customer experience management" and leverages Adobe tools and runtimes for HTML5, Flash, Flex, AIR, and PDF. The cost of the platform's various major components typically start in the $100,000 range.

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Adobe's rollout provides "one unified platform for developing customer experience applications," said Rob Pinkerton, Adobe senior director of product marketing for customer experience management. Solutions can be provided across social, Web, mobile, and print channels. Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform integrates the Adobe LiveCycle business process management suite with the Day Software CQ Web content management product acquired by Adobe last year. With technology acquired via Day Software, enterprises can provision content across mobile devices.

Specific products enabled by the platform can assist digital marketers in driving personalized experiences for multichannel marketing communications and campaigns online and offline. Content for use with Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform can be created with Adobe Creative Suite, while analytics can be provided via Adobe Online Marketing Suite.

Products in the Digital Enterprise Platform -- some of which were previously announced -- include:

  • Integrated Content Review, for marketing campaigns and customer experiences
  • Web Experience Management, for developing and publishing rich content across Web, social, mobile, and email channels
  • Social Brand Engagement, for enterprises to engage with customers
  • Selection and Enrollment, intended to reduce online abandonment and time-to-market by offering engaging offline and online product enrollment experiences
  • Unified Workspace, empowering customer-facing agents to span information sources for fast access to critical information
  • Customer Communications, intended to improve customer loyalty by centralizing and managing the development and delivery of interactive correspondence and interactive statements

The Integrated Content Review, Customer Communications, and Web Experience Management modules are available Monday, while the other three ship later this year. The LiveCycle name goes away as part of the new product rollout.

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The VoIP management challenge

Enterprise network managers are implementing VoIP, but how are they managing these installations? Here are four tools to simplify the task

The slowly maturing VoIP platform has enterprises taking a long look at this technology, and not just for cost savings. Many of these potential users are opting for in-house rather than service-provider solutions because of the additional savings, future flexibility, and a simple lack of consistent vision by the large telco providers.

Those adventurous souls who implement VoIP themselves face the daunting task of managing a voice-oriented data network. For network managers accustomed to data networks, this job requires a specialized toolkit.

To determine the best option for the enterprise market, we gathered four VoIP testing contenders and turned them loose on the VoIP installations at our Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) testing facility at the University of Hawaii.

The reviews below aren't intended as direct comparisons. These testing tools are different enough in their approaches to the VoIP management problem that an apples-to-apples comparison is simply unworkable. For this reason, we instead examined each tool on its own merits and rated them from the perspective of a typical network manager.

Acterna DA-3400 Data Network Analyzer

We reviewed the network testing capabilities of Acterna's product line in our March roundup. This time around, Acterna brought a DA-3400 equipped with its latest VoIP testing software technology. Heavily aimed at service providers and carrier-style implementations, the Acterna solution is feature-rich but probably overkill for all but the largest enterprise VoIP implementations.

As before, the DA-3400 comprises an innocuous, 1U rack-mountable box, which we attached to our network via a Net Optics tap. That's important, because unlike the Brix product, the DA-3400 is an entirely passive device.

To access the DA-3400's PVA-1000 VoIP analyzing software, you log into the box using a Web browser. We plugged the DA-3400 into our lab network and decided to expand its testing scope to reflect its carrier orientation. We skipped managing local VoIP traffic and instead aimed the device at an Asterisk SIP server used by Priority Networks.

We initiated several conversations using Priority's network and the same people in each conversation to preserve audio frequency ranges. We measured call quality during a series of two-minute conversations and captured both sides of the conversation so that we could play it back later.

To measure QoS and Diffserv, the DA-3400 displays the appropriate priority bits that tell the receiver (or router) what priority the traffic has. The big differentiator in Diffserv is that the priority labels must be correctly configured in order for the switch to "differentiate" the data streams.

Although Diffserv is mostly standardized by now, the standards continue to be implemented differently enough across platforms that having the ability to dig down to the bit level with the DA-3400 can be critical to fast problem resolution.

When measuring call quality, the DA-3400 tracked the RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol), RTCP (RTP control protocol), and packet values along with call delay, codec identification, lost packets, and jitter. Additionally, it is capable of following the TIPHON (Telecommunications and Internet Protocol Harmonization Over Networks) perceptual call quality assessment protocol for calls in progress.

Surprisingly, our call quality across the Las Vegas-based Asterisk server was just as good as a local POTS call, however we were running across Internet2 with a cross-connect onto Qwest's backbone for the commodity Internet.

Our perceived test scores were excellent, but the DA-3400 was unable to display the actual MOS (mean opinion score), because the user interface displays MOS results as a visual band and not an actual number. This is a recurring concern: Acterna occasionally oversimplifies the results of its rather powerful tool set. The visual-only display of the MOS scores is one example; another is the rather light implementation of SNMP traps.

Acterna says it will address many of these complaints in the next version of its software, due this month. In addition to detailed MOS scores and improved SNMP, you'll also be able to integrate the Acterna console into larger management packages, such as Hewlett-Packard OpenView and IBM Tivoli.

We were surprised by this, given Acterna's leanings toward the carrier side of VoIP implementations. Clearly, Acterna smells opportunity in the enterprise market. Larger enterprises can make good use of the DA-3400, although Brix's offering is more specifically geared for such an installation.

The Brix System

In case you're wondering,  Brix's etymology comes not from masonry slang, but from a term related to the proper processing of grapes into wine. After unearthing this data nugget, we dug into Brix Networks' offerings to find a pleasant surprise: This relatively new company has a well-thought-out, comprehensive suite of VoIP monitoring and testing products and services that's fully capable of competing with more established vendors' offerings.

The Brix product line is a software/hardware combination. The hardware appliances, called Verifiers, come in three flavors: Brix 100, Brix 1000, and Brix 2500. These boxes run agent software, essentially the long arm of the Brix monitoring system. Customers may install the agent software on workstations as long as they purchase the proper number of Brix Verifier Agent software licenses.

Command of the Brix system falls to either a BrixMon enterprise-class centralized management console or to a BrixWorx console, which is designed to run within a service provider's network monitoring system and control Brix Verifier Agents across multiple customer sites.

Because of our enterprise focus, we tested the BrixMon enterprise solution. Brix arrived at our ANCL testing facility with a preconfigured BrixMon workstation, two Brix 100 Verifiers, and several copies of Verifier Agent software.

Deploying the Brix system was easy, because the BrixMon software was preinstalled on Brix's Windows-based workstation, and because discovery and configuration of the Verifiers was largely automatic. After the system knew where the Brix 100s were, we could configure them for long-term monitoring or short-term testing tasks. Most of these features are specifically designed to enhance performance management and provide service-level assurances, which suggests that BrixMon still has ties to its BrixWorx sibling's service-provider orientation.

For those with large VoIP installations, however, the BrixMon system is an excellent central-site management solution. It provides not only secure management communications but also all the tools an enterprise network manager requires.

One key feature is Brix's ability to automatically launch network tests based on preset performance thresholds. If the monitoring system reports a problem, for example, the same agent machine can initiate network tests that will provide the service technician with detailed diagnostic data as soon as he starts work on the problem.

BrixMon's interface is Web-based, but that doesn't impede the feature set or system performance. In fact, we were pleasantly surprised by its detailed reporting capabilities. The reports run in real time, often doing double duty as performance analyzers.

Brix thoughtfully includes support for extended historical reporting data, allowing the Brix System to act as a data mine for long-term network performance and service-level questions. For the technician on the go, the Brix System contains the usual suite of executive-oriented reports, plus a Quick Report suite that extracts down-and-dirty technical data for diagnostics and management.

Because the Brix System can act as a general network management tool, the features necessary for high-end VoIP management are part of the optional BrixMon Advanced VoIP Test Suite. It provides the tools to conduct ongoing VoIP management and allows predeployment testing -- a feature near and dear to the hearts of those deploying VoIP in a place where the suits are extra sensitive to call quality.

The system is designed to run its test suite against a variety of VoIP protocols, including SIP, H.323, and Cisco SCCP (Skinny Client Control Protocol). Within these protocols, Brix tests call setup performance, call quality, and transmission speed.

With support for H.323, it's no surprise that Brix makes available an optional Video Test Suite for testing video conferencing. The suite includes a wealth of network statistical verifiers, from voice and video quality to packet loss, jitter, and bandwidth utilization. Acerna and Fluke Networks can do this using different software or different features of their software, but the functionality is aimed at general network management metrics, not specifically at VoIP.

Because of its youth, the Brix System isn't as fully utilized as the architecture will support. Therefore Brix's strategy to implement new testing capabilities as software that can be installed on the BrixMon station and then pushed out to Verifiers is an excellent way for users to protect their investment -- they'll gain significant new features via software updates without resorting to new hardware purchases.

Although the Brix system is overkill for smaller or local VoIP installations, it's one of the best we've seen for managing larger enterprise VoIP deployments, especially those with many branch offices.

Fluke Networks OptiView Protocol Expert Plus

For large and midsize companies interested in managing a VoIP implementation in-house, this analyzer does a fine job of augmenting Fluke Networks' OptiView software line. Fluke Networks already has significant market penetration with small-IT-budget companies, and these customers can now access robust VoIP monitoring and testing tools without ponying up for an all-new tool suite.

OptiView is largely software-based, but Fluke allowed us to test the software using a dedicated hardware appliance, so installation was smoother. Our box was a 1U rack-mountable unit, though we kept it outside the rack during testing. We tested the new OptiView Protocol Expert Plus.

For those with their own workstations, OptiView runs on any NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP Pro workstation. Network managers familiar with the OptiView interface and features will appreciate how well Fluke Networks integrated its VoIP tools with the existing OptiView software.

The Expert Plus version contains the same expert packet- and decode-analysis found in Protocol Expert, but also remotely monitors and even controls other Protocol Expert boxes and handheld OptiView Link Analyzers. Whereas this architecture isn't dedicated to distributed management capabilities (as in the Brix design), it does manage to mirror much of that functionality without a huge investment in new software and hardware.

It still offers all the usual goodies, including line rate traffic monitoring and traffic capture, packet decoding, Gigabit Ethernet support, and the usual series of network management metrics such as top talkers, VLAN analysis, utilization, and error rate.

Fluke Networks also adds its aptly named VoIP Option. This plug-in software for existing OptiView installations gives network managers many enterprise-oriented VoIP management tools.

With OptiView's history as a protocol analyzer, we expected support for a wide variety of VoIP protocols -- and we weren't disappointed. VoIP Option supports not only SIP, H.323, and Cisco SCCP, but also ASN.1, MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol), and SGCP (Simple Gateway Control Protocol). That's more than any other tool we reviewed.

The tool is heavy on QoS validation and measurement, too. It measures real-time QoS metrics for completed calls, initiated calls across most of its supported protocols, and even active calls.

It extends the QoS philosophy to other measurements as well, allowing users to set customer-defined "Quality Grades" for jitter, packet loss, r-factor, and setup time. These measurements can be served up numerically or graphically, presenting calls that measure up to the preset thresholds and those that do not.

In testing, we ran the OptiView a differently, as OptiView's engineer decided to plug the device into the switch port on the back of our Cisco 7960 VoIP phone instead of using a copper tap as we did with Acterna's device.

Under normal circumstances, the OptiView unit would be inserted into a network rack to monitor a SPAN's (switched port analyzer's) port. Indeed, Fluke Newtorks has a copper tap that looks suspiciously like a Net Optics unit, but our engineer didn't use one.

Unfortunately, because the port on the back of the 7960 is a switch not a hub, the OptiView couldn't see both sides of a conversation during monitoring, although it could play back the full conversation later.

After installation, however, the box gave almost exactly the same statistics as the Acterna DA-3400. The Fluke Networks unit did give us an actual MOS score, and the MOS scores were nearly identical to those measured by the

DA-3400, covering both RTP and RTCP to determine call quality by delay and jitter values of the packets themselves.

With the lowest price tag in the review, and the capability to drop its feature set onto a network management solution that large numbers of network managers already own and use, Fluke Networks' OptiView has a big leg up on the enterprise VoIP management market.

Although its features and tools are very similar to those of Acterna's

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IBM's project financing attracting SMBs

Program seen as reducing risk for customers

IBM's project financing service is proving popular not only among enterprises but also with the small to midsize business (SMB) sector, according to a Big Blue executive. The service provides a customer with complete financial backing from IBM for an entire IT project from the design phase to system deployment.

About one-third of IBM's project financing business is currently with SMBs and the business is growing, according to Paul Foulkes, IBM's vice president, worldwide project financing with IBM Global Financing. In some countries, IBM's financing deals are predominantly with SMBs, notably in France, Italy and Canada, he said.

Foulkes did note that a customer IBM might define as an SMB for the purposes of its financing might be a much larger entity when seen as an entire company. While very large, older companies already have highly sophisticated business models in place, a younger company with $1 billion in revenue might not have those systems well established and so would benefit from project financing, according to John McArthur, group vice president and general manager with IDC's information infrastructure division.

With any project financing deal, customers want two things -- to lock in the amount of money the project will cost, while retaining some flexibility on achieving project milestones, IBM's Foulkes said. A milestone is an agreed-upon point in the project when some goal has been met, for instance, getting a specified number of users up and running on a new application. In that example, IBM would build some "wiggle room" into the milestone so that if, say only $800,000 was needed of a planned $1 million, the customer could still sign off on having reached that stage, he explained.

Having milestones established throughout the course of a project really helps keep the development on track, for both the users and their IT suppliers, according to Foulkes. "[The milestones] introduce a little more certainty and add a lot more discipline," he said. "It's a way of very formally and legally saying [to the customer], 'Are you happy?'" Once a customer has formally signed off on a milestone, they then need to pay IBM the agreed amount in relation to that achievement so Big Blue can in turn pay the IT suppliers.

"There's an old phrase -- approved but not funded," said IDC's McArthur. "It's hard to get approval for IT projects. Project financing allows the match of payments to future benefits."

He described the IBM service as a "brilliant approach," not only reducing the risks inherent in high-tech projects for customers, but also a way of providing substantial competitive advantage for IBM. If Big Blue introduces the concept of project financing at an early stage when a customer is considering an IT project, IBM's "traditional [financing] competition might not even be invited to the table," McArthur said. "It's a totally different way to sell. It's paying for benefits, not a new CRM system."

IBM is also likely to be pitching a project financing deal to a different audience, a company's chief financial officer (CFO), not the IT director, McArthur said. "IBM needs to make sure that their people calling on the CFO speak their language," he said. "It's a very different conversation, all about risk management."

Should a customer decide midway through a project that it wants to call a halt to the whole thing, IBM will immediately terminate its funding, Foulkes said. The customer can then walk away from the deal, only having paid what they've seen value for as measured by the agreed-upon milestones. That flexibility is likely to give customers more confidence and make it easier to get IT projects approved, according to IDC's McArthur. "If you're able to go to the CFO and say, 'By the way, you don't have to pay a nickel if you don't see a benefit.' They'll say, 'Yeah, I'll take the risk,'" he said. The only risk the customer will take on board is in allocating staff to the project, he added.

One of the inhibitors to chief executive officers taking on project financing deals for their companies is a sizeable cost benefit mismatch between the cost of the project and the time it may take for an organization to reap any financial benefit from the project, IBM's Foulkes said. "It may take years to see any payback," particularly in relation to CRM (customer relationship management) or ERP (enterprise resource planning) projects and government initiatives such as e-passports and electronic tolls for road systems, he added.

SMBs can often make very quick decisions on IT projects, Foulkes said. It's a factor of both their size and that they're often backed by private equity, which can also move rapidly to shore up its investments.

RoadChef's speedy drive to project financing

A number of SMBs are looking to completely transform their business operations with an IT project, like U.K. motorway services operator RoadChef Motorways Ltd., which earlier this year signed a project financing contract worth around US$40 million with IBM.

RoadChef has 20 sites in the U.K., some of which offer accommodation along with cafes, fast-food restaurants and shops. Installing new management last year, RoadChef's owner, Nikko Principal Investments Inc. , was keen for the organization to improve its performance and expand its 24 percent share of the motorway services market. Nikko wanted to make RoadChef more cost-efficient by outsourcing noncustomer facing activities like finance and administration and revamping the company's IT infrastructure.

RoadChef worked closely with Accenture Ltd. to research the scope of the project and put together a request for proposal. Accenture, IBM, LogicaCMG PLC and Capgemini SA were among the bidders for the project. Despite Accenture's initial involvement with the project, the company didn't win the bid. "They pushed the financing problem back to the owners," IBM's Foulkes said. RoadChef preferred IBM's structured approach with the locked-in financing and the milestones, he explained. "They said it wasn't the cheapest form of financing, but they got value out of it," Foulkes added.

The request for proposal was issued in October 2004, RoadChef chose IBM the following month, and the companies signed the contract in January of this year. The project has been under way since February and should be up and running by the end of October, according to Foulkes. "It was very, very fast for a business transformation deal," he said. "RoadChef put a lot of pressure on time scales."

Under the terms of the deal, RoadChef's finance and administration operations are being outsourced to Bangalore, India. Bills will be sent to a post office box, read digitally into a computer and then transferred to India to be processed, Foulkes said. For its new IT infrastructure, RoadChef is taking on financial software from Sage Group PLC and retail applications from Anker PLC running on IBM eServers, desktop PCs and cash tills and linked together with Big Blue's networking services.

RoadChef and IBM have been implementing the new systems on a site-by-site basis, with three sites up and running already, Foulkes said.

IBM's deal with RoadChef involves 35 agreed-upon milestones. Two milestones have been missed, and so the money earmarked for signing off on those stages sat in RoadChef's bank account earning interest until IBM resolved the issues to RoadChef's satisfaction, according to Foulkes.

Project financing around the world

What all companies considering project financing press IBM for is examples of organizations that have done similar projects in their particular industry. "It doesn't matter so much where in the world," Foulkes said. Big Blue hopes to build a branded reputation as a provider of project financing with plenty of user case studies, he added.

Over a year ago, Mark Loughridge, IBM's then general manager of Global Financing, just before he became company CFO, met with Foulkes. Loughridge asked him to find ways to communicate more effectively to customers what the company's trying to do with project financing and encourage the establishment of a dedicated project financing team within IBM.

So far, Foulkes has built up a 24-person strong team, taking people with a variety of expertise in financing, sales and consulting. He was particularly keen to hire individuals who've seen large IT projects through to execution, he said. Four members of his team focus on Asia -- two based in Australia and two based in Japan -- 10 concentrate on the Americas and another 10 home in on Europe.

While IBM Global Financing's 1,000 salespeople can deal with most of the $1 million to $5 million financing deals, each member of Foulkes' group handles the more expensive and complicated arrangements, typically three or four projects at a time.

"We will grow the team, add more people and get a bedrock of success that resonates [with customers and analysts]," he said. IBM is expanding the project financing businesses worldwide. The company recently signed a business license to provide the project financing service in South Korea and is setting up public sector deals in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, Foulkes said.

IBM is looking at both China and the Russian Federation, though to provide project financing in both areas is a complex operation requiring business licenses and potentially working with local agents and third parties who really know the markets, according to Foulkes.

Project financing isn't an approach that will appeal to all customers, Foulkes said. "Sometimes, it won't make sense, we'll be selective about who we work with," he added.

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Hilton’s Hollywood mansion can now be had for just $2,655,000, Tulia Luxe Living notes. Nicky is asking a lot less than what she paid for the Sunset Strip home in 2007, according to Radar Online. The home has 4,072-square feet of living space. Nicky’s house boasts a large living room, three bedrooms, and a formal dining room. The buyer can also enjoy a large eat-in kitchen with an island, built-in refrigerator and four ovens.

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Families have always agonized over how to save money for their children to attend college, but these days planning can be even more difficult.

Colleges and universities have been raising fees sharply and often, making it particularly difficult for families to plan. The phenomenon also has widened the gap between low-income families who can secure enough student aid to pay for college and wealthier families who can pay for school themselves.

For the middle class in particular, priorities may have to change, said Sean Connors, founder of College Planning Specialists in Concord.

"They have to be realistic," Connors said. "Where can the student go? And what's realistic for the pocketbook? People generally look at one or the other. Now, more than ever, you have to be on the same page."

Every family, experts said, should check its eligibility for government need-based scholarships: California's Cal Grant and the federal Pell Grant. That exploration should begin during a student's early high-school years.

But grants and loans likely will not cover everything, especially if fees continue to rise.

"Student loans have an annual maximum per grade level that has nothing to do with fees going up," said Barbara Hubler, San Francisco State's financial-aid director. "I think it's really very hard for middle-class families to meet that extra little bit."

Families often use what are known as 529 plans — named after a U.S. tax code — that provide tax breaks on money set aside for college tuition. But, like all investments, 529 plans can be unpredictable.

Students and parents need to decide whether additional costs should be covered through loans or a student job, Hubler said.

"Either you borrow now and work later, or you can work now," she said. "Working isn't a bad thing, but there needs to be a balance (between work and school)."

Although fees in the California State University and University of California systems are lower than those in most other states, the schools themselves do not provide as much financial help to needy students as wealthier private schools, Connors said. Contrary to conventional wisdom, he said, families unable to save money should consider more expensive colleges.

"Far too many families are looking at the Cal State and UC systems and saying, 'That's the cheaper option,'" he said. "Private schools can make it much cheaper for students to go away to school."

The cheapest option, however, remains California's community colleges. Even with this year's $6-per-unit fee increase, community colleges can make the first two years of college significantly more affordable, and they can also improve an academically weak student's chances of graduating from a high-quality university.

"It's not a bad route to go," Connors said. "It's a viable option. In some cases, it's the only option."

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