The Carousel Newsletter is a monthly resource for industry news, trends and the latest offerings from Carousel Industries and our Technology Partners.
This month’s focus is on Innovation.

Bank Branch Innovation Like Never Before: 5 Brands Redefining Tradition

Sources like CNBC and The Telegraph predict that the retail bank branch will die within the next decade. Research, however, suggests this will fail to become a reality. We can’t help but agree. In fact, the market is heading towards bank branch innovation unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

Read more at the Avaya Customer Innovations Awards:

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Contributor: Avaya

Mobile Communications for the Digital Workplace

You’re stuck in traffic. It happens all too often. With the latest innovations in mobile UC, you can easily, and legally, go through messages while behind the wheel. Simply speak up to call in and interact with all your messages, voice and email.

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Contributor: AVST

DevOps: The Key to Innovation for Network Operators

Service providers are increasingly embracing the DevOps concept, which brings IT and Network teams together, enables better collaboration with vendor ecosystem partners to accelerate service development, and improves business agility.

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Contributor: Ciena

A Winning Combination: Wireless Innovation and Software Subscriptions

Cisco introduced a new kind of network this year. The announcement not only represented groundbreaking technology but also a transformation of how we deliver networking innovation to our customers. We’re building on our commitment to eventually offer all of our software by subscription by adding it to our wireless portfolio.

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Contributor: Cisco

Enabling Retail Innovation at Tommy Bahama with Cloud Networking

New technology innovations for retail stores, such as mobile PoS and retail applications, encouraged Tommy Bahama to consider wireless in stores.

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Contributor: Cisco Meraki

Protecting the Connection Lifecycle

All endpoints have connection lifecycles. Effective security requires constant and complete monitoring and protection throughout the entire connection lifecycle. In this White Paper, you’ll learn how to take an innovative approach to extending visibility and control of endpoints from pre-connect through post-connect with ForeScout CounterACT®.

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Contributor: Forescout

The Extreme Automated Campus

In an industry that’s already defined and continually renewed byinnovation, Extreme Network’s recent announcement of Campus Automation is one of the most significant advances in campus networking and even for networking IT overall

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Contributor: Extreme

Software-Defined Wide Area Networking: A Practical Guide To Implementing Hybrid WAN

For businesses that are reluctant to adopt software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN), it’s important to remember that it doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing migration

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Contributor: Comcast Business

How to Achieve Automated, Intelligence-Driven Security

Innovation in sandboxing has resulted in a more accessible security measure, a critical supplement to the traditional signature-based security approach that most organizations use to detect known threats.

Learn what characteristics you should be looking for when analyzing sandbox solutions.

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Contributor: Fortinet

Constant Innovation is Changing the Way We Stream Video

Open-source software is an amazing way to gather ideas from all over to create new, innovative means of transporting video over the public internet. Take a few moments to read about the SRT Alliance, how the protocol was developed, and how it’s changing how we transport video here.

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Contributor: Haivision

Why a Nice Lunch Beats Facebook and LinkedIn – Every Time

Emails, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other digital solutions are great for information sharing but are killing innovation, collaboration, and efficiency in modern knowledge-based companies. It’s time to enter the era of meaningful conversation. I just rediscovered an old book that shows us how.

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Contributor: Jabra

Machine learning moves to the front lines of defense against an expanding threat surface

Recent events drive home the reality that cyber risks are growing more devious and complex, while the culprits behind them act with impunity. To keep the upper hand, CISOs need a way to leapfrog the mechanisms in use by bad actors

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Contributor: Juniper Networks

Innovative Collaboration in the Modern Workforce

Learn from industry experts – Bain & Company, Harvard Business In all technology industries, and conferencing specifically, innovation is a constant race to the next best thing. It has allowed conferencing to evolve from limited capacity and grainy audio only calls to HD video and voice collaboration between hundreds and even thousands of people at a time.

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Contributor: Sonexis

Help Your Customers Own Their Digital Transformation

Today, nearly every company has a digital strategy in place. Whether the aim is to drive product innovation, become more efficient, or improve the customer experience — it can make a tremendous impact on a company’s level of success. But there’s a difference between having a digital strategy that achieves purely tactical results and one that is transformational

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Contributor: Level 3

RingCentral Unveils New Innovations

Kira Makagon, EVP of Innovation at RingCentral, leads discussion on innovation at RingCentral’s annual user conference, ConnectCentral.

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Contributor: RingCentral

Redefining the Enterprise Security Perimeter

Attacks on enterprise unified communications (UC) traffic have risen six-fold in the past eighteen months. These attacks have cost enterprises more than $40B in the past year alone. The market demands a new unified enterprise security perimeter that combines the capabilities of next generation firewalls (NGFWs) with best-in-class session border controllers (SBCs).

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Contributor: Sonus

Emergency Preparedness:  Innovative Solutions Optimize Response Time

As a leader in the paging/emergency notification industry, Valcom delivers innovative solutions that  allow employees/visitors to summons assistance with the press of a single button, allowing a call to be directed to the most appropriate point for optimal response

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Contributor: Valcom

Why people say “we didn’t see it coming.”

Technological and digital innovations have changed many industries beyond recognition. From retail with its wide adoption of e-commerce, financial services and its increasing digitization, to traditionally offline industries such as agriculture—it seems no sector has escaped the rise of technology.

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Contributor: Verizon