Sitting here in early August gazing at the grey English skies makes me long to return to sunnier climates. My thoughts turn firmly to Florida and I find myself browsing for Orlando villas to rent on orlando villas. I remember my last trip as if it was only yesterday, especially my close encounter whilst absorbing one of Central Florida’s natural attractions, the swamps.

Although we were staying in an Orlando vacation rental home which are mainly filled with out-of-state tourists, I bumped into a local called Carl who was working for www.wireitright.com who suggested that our families meet up one Sunday afternoon at a country park about 30 miles North West of Orlando. Eager to see more of Florida’s natural beauty, sure enough one week later we found ourselves heading up to Wekiva. We met with our new friends and decided to rent some canoes and head north upriver.

The shallow river was fairly dense with fallen trees and navigating them was difficult. Whilst rowing with one ore and two you kids was hard-work heading up-stream, the current made it fairly easy to control the canoe and navigate the tight corners. As we passed one particularly hairy tight spot, a 7ft alligator was clearly visible. The kids, aged 4 and 5, were already on the lookout for alligators and they fell very silent as we passed.

Eventually we found a sand island in the middle of the river and stopped for refreshment. My 4 year old picked up a stick that was floating down-stream. When he asked me why the stick was moving I shouted to him to drop it, fortunately it looked like it was just a water snake.

I need some excitement in my life again, time to fins another Florida vacation villa for rent on www.fabvillas.com. If I can, I’ll try to stay at Emerald Retreat again as it was a wonderful villa with everything that I could have dreamed of, details can be found at www.emeraldislandflorida.com

Extranet

An extranet is a private network that uses Internet technology and the public telecommunication system to securely share part of a business's information or operations with suppliers, vendors, partners, customers, or other businesses. An extranet can be viewed as part of a company's intranet that is extended to users outside the company. It has also been described as a "state of mind" in which the Internet is perceived as a way to do business with other companies as well as to sell products to customers.
An extranet requires security and privacy. These can include firewalls server management, the issuance and use of digital certificates or similar means of user authentication, encryption of messages, and the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) that tunnel through the public network.
An extranet could be described as two or more intranets with network connectivity. Generally, and as with intranets, an extranet will be based on Internet Protocols. The underlying network technology does not really matter, for instance it may be that organizations use the Internet for carrying data but restrict access to resources from the general public via firewalls. A virtual private network could be set up over the Internet to achieve the same result.
An argument could be made that "Extranet" is just a buzzword for describing what institutions have been doing for decades, that is, interconnecting to each other to create private networks for sharing information.
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, several industries started to use the term "extranet" to describe central repositories of shared data made accessible via the web only to authorised members of particular work groups. For example, in the construction industry, project teams could login to and access a 'project extranet' to share drawings and documents, make comments, issue requests for information, etc. Specially secured extranets are used to provide virtual Data room services to companies in a number of sectors.
There are a variety of commercial Extranet applications. Some of which are for pure file management, others include broader collaboration tools and project management tools.
Some Extranet Product examples are:
Ace Project, Hot Project, Creative Manager.

Iptelecoms

Iptelecoms, the UK distributors for Swyx and specialists in the distribution of IP telephony products, found they had a major success on their hands when exhibiting at the 2005 Convergence Summit held at Stoneley Park near Coventry on the 6th and 7th of August this year.
Steve Curtis, Managing Director of Iptelecoms Ltd said “The exhibition has been a major success story for us. This is the first time that we have exhibited at the Convergence Summit and we are delighted with the astounding interest shown in our product line-up.” He also told us “Over the past few weeks we have seen a major upturn in business and the time is most definitely now for IP telephony and converged solutions. Resellers are realizing that this is the only route forward and the move to IP opens up many additional revenue streams to them.”
On several occasions dealers were waiting in line for a live Swyx demonstration whilst many other stands were visibly quieter.
Iptelecoms work closely with their reseller channel to ensure they fully understand the feature rich products that they are taking to market.
Mark Russell, Technical Director at Iptelecoms who has over 6 years experience with Swyx SoftPBX told us “Watching the expressions on peoples face turn into a booming smile as they were shown the feature rich product was amazing. I’ve never experienced anything quite like it. Having been in the telecoms industry for over 20 years and worked with the data industry for over 8 years we are ideally placed to both help our voice resellers understand the issues associated with entering the world of converged networks and our data resellers how the product should be taken to market.”
Those resellers wishing to partner with Iptelecoms should either obtain further information from http://www.iptelecoms.com or email sales@iptelecoms.com.