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The world of technical communication is changing. Technical communicators must meet new demands for efficiency and new time-to-market constraints. They must create and combine both static and interactive content in the form of conventional technical publications, training materials, and eLearning publications. They must create interactive, engaging content for different audiences and purposes, often in multiple languages, and in different delivery formats.

Adobe Technical Communication Suite meets the challenges of the world of technical communication. Adobe Technical Communication Suite provides capabilities and efficiencies to improve the workflow of technical communicators, enhance the abilities of technical communicators, and make technical communicators more effective.

Adobe Technical Communication Suite software is a complete solution for authoring, managing, and publishing technical information and training content in multiple languages and formats. Using this suite, you can create and maintain technical documentation, user assistance systems, knowledge bases, simulations, software demonstrations, and other support information. Integrate images, interactive 3D models, and rich media, and create engaging demos and simulations without programming or multimedia skills. Employ efficient single-source workflows for authoring and publishing technical information in multiple languages for different audiences and purposes.

Nortel Networks BayStack 380 Switches are designed to provide high-density high-bandwidth connectivity to desktops, other switches, servers, and other network devices. BayStack 380 Switches offer a resilient solution that minimizes capital and operational expenses. Their robust security features offer protection against unauthorized access to data traffic. The switches are Web-manageable and support Redundant Power Supply (RPS) and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) options.

The BayStack 380-24F provides high density wiring closet switch Layer 2 aggregation.

ReadyNAS Pro is the newest and most powerful member of the award-winning ReadyNAS product family. Designed for small and medium businesses, workgroups and home offices, ReadyNAS Pro delivers class-leading performance, ease of use, and robust features in a desktop small form factor chassis supporting 6 SATA channels and up to 6 TB of storage. This 6-bay gigabit Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance is packed with high-end server features, including RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and auto-expandable X-RAID2 support for data protection against disk failure, system monitoring capabilities and built-in backup.

Powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the ReadyNAS Pro is a powerful NAS for mission critical business data across a variety of different platforms. The high-performance platform coupled with dual Gigabit Ethernet and jumbo frame support provides enough bandwidth to allow more users to access data storage simultaneously.

With an easy web browser interface and setup wizard, ReadyNAS can be configured with minimal effort - saving you valuable time. Traditional file servers can take hours to configure and, even once up and running, don't have built-in system monitoring and email alerts. Available with ReadyNAS, automatic alerts give you the peace of mind that things are running smoothly because if trouble should arise, you will be notified.

The industrial design and compact desktop form factor of the ReadyNAS Pro makes it perfect not just for small and medium size businesses, but also for departments and work groups. It can fit in any server space or on any desk. ReadyNAS Pro also offers low power consumption and a special energy-saving mode allows you to automate startup and shutdown according to a pre-programmed schedule, in addition to the disk spin-down for regular power saving.

ReadyNAS Pro is a single centralized source for all of your digital data. The variety of computers and hard drives that currently house the data in your office and home can make locating a particular file quite arduous. ReadyNAS can bring all of that data together for fast and easy file serving to multiple clients simultaneously across the local network or via the Internet.

APC Smart-UPS RT is a family of high-density, performance UPSs for voice and data networks, medical labs, and light industrial applications. Capable of supporting 10kVA in a 6U rack/tower convertible form, users can support power hungry blade servers or heavily loaded equipment racks. This flexible form factor allows standardization across multiple applications. High power internal chargers allow virtually unlimited additional matching battery packs to comply with aggressive runtime demands of business-critical systems. Customers with harsh power environments looking for extremely tight voltage and frequency regulation, internal bypass, and input power factor correction typical of double conversion online topology will get them in the Smart-UPS RT.

The EF400mm f/4 DO IS USM is the world's first super telephoto lens incorporating the exclusive Canon-developed multi-layer diffractive optical element for camera lenses. The optical element, which incorporates light diffraction, is a major technological breakthrough, and it features an exceeding ability to correct chromatic and spherical aberrations and render high-quality images. By including this optical element in the lens design, the lens has achieved tremendous savings of 26% in overall length and 36% in weight compared to comparable lenses incorporating only conventional refractive optical elements. Moreover, the size and weight advantage comes at no cost to image quality, with the EF400mm f/4 DO IS USM delivering performance equivalent to conventional models in its class.

Business Communications Manager 50 is an all-in-one, affordable platform for converged voice and data communications; ideal for small to medium businesses with 3 to 50 users. Business Communications Manager 50 provides advanced capabilities such as robust telephony features, voice messaging, (including the ability to forward voice, fax or text messages to the most popular mobile devices) unified messaging, IP networking, Internet access, contact centers, mobility solutions and IP telephony. With an easy-to-use and highly flexible architecture, the Business Communications Manager 50 enables small sites to benefit from convergence capabilities that were previously only available to much larger organizations.

The VPL-FE40 is Sony's solution to all projection requirements. The world's first BrightEra panels, advanced electronics, superior image processing, and a sophisticated chassis design, simply redefines Sony's total projection solution.

Whether deployed in a boardroom or in an auditorium, the projector is sure to astound with its amazing design and features.

The HP StorageWorks Ultrium 232 Tape Drive is one the newest LTO1 drives on the market and the fastest in HP portfolio. This affordable superdrive delivers enterprise-class backup capacity, performance, and reliability at a midrange price. With a compressed capacity of 200 GB per data cartridge and a compressed data transfer rate of 115 GB per hour, this LTO1 drive is read- and write-compatible with all first-generation Ultrium tape drives and media, and its media can be read by any LTO1, 2, or 3 drive from any manufacturer.

Despite its low cost, the Ultrium 232's rugged design delivers excellent reliability and includes many of the advanced features of its bigger siblings. The drive employs data rate matching to adjust to the speed of the host, reducing wear and tear on both the drive and media while increasing performance, particularly on slower systems. The Ultrium 232 supports HP StorageWorks One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR), taking the worry out of disaster planning.

Designed for exact compatibility with OKI products, only OKI consumables ensure maximum performance, longevity and ultimate cost-effectiveness. OKI's ribbon cassettes, inkjet heads, toner and EP cartridges and other consumables are an integral part of the fundamental design of its printer and fax products, combining with other key elements of their design to deliver optimum durability, reliability and print quality.

The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 is a 4P-based server ideal for virtualization and mission-critical data center deployments. The processor performance and large memory capacity of the DL580 G5 can help improve staff productivity through fewer, yet more powerful, servers to manage with better performing applications.

To provide the most powerful, bright and feature-rich projector for situations which call for permanent installation, Canon is proud to present the LV-7585. With new design details to enhance its efficiency in mounting and operation and its brilliant 6500 ANSI lumens, the LV-7585 is ideal for the most demanding boardroom or theater installations. HDTV and HD compatible, it has been designed and built to provide the range of image controls and versatility you need for the most demanding circumstances. And of course with the optical performance you can only get in a Canon projector.

Highlights of the Canon LV-7585 Projector

• 6500 ANSI lumens
• Native XGA Resolution
• Genuine Canon Optics 1.3x Zoom Lens
• Image Controls
• Auto-Winding Filtering System
• 1600:1 High Contrast Ratio
• 10-bit Processing
• Power Lens Shift
• Network Capability
• Quiet 32dB Operation
• Multiple Image Modes
• 2:3 and 3:2 Pulldown for Film and Video Detection
• Digital Keystone Correction
• Remote Control
• Customizable Logo Display
• Connectivity
• PIN Code for Operational Lock
• Set-up, Design Details and More

FWD-50PX2 is a 50-inch high definition professional display, well suited for corporate and consumer applications that delivers high image quality, accurate color reproduction and long panel life. This display includes analog and digital inputs for both video and PC devices for a versatile viewing platform.

Economic pressures and dynamic business environments can create complex IT challenges. With your business on the line 24x7, the availability of your infrastructure is more important than ever. HP Services works the way you do to resolve tough IT issues and help you get more value from your infrastructure investment. HP's highly skilled IT professionals can help you stay in control of critical information resources, provide consistent and predictable performance, and deliver access that is unquestionably secure. HP offers the industry's most comprehensive suite of proactive services and end-to-end environment protection with a single source of accountability.

HP SupportPack Post-Warranty Service is an on-site, hardware support service. It includes phone support, labor, parts and required travel by HP to supply the service. Replaced parts become the property of HP.

The Epson EPL-2550T is a compact A3 workgroup printer. It offers fast printing speeds of up to 30ppm and features Quick Fusing Technology to produce a first page out of just 8.2 seconds from ready mode and a first page out of 12 seconds from sleep mode. This means that you spend less time waiting for your prints and more time on your business. A large paper capacity and high-yield toner cartridges make this efficient laser printer ideal for corporate customers seeking a reliable, easy to use and cost effective printing solution.

As a global leader in the PC market, IBM develops, manufactures and markets cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products and value-added professional services that provide customers around the world with smarter ways to be productive and competitive.

The Cisco 2800 Series provides significant additional value compared to prior generations of Cisco routers at similar price points by offering up to a fivefold performance improvement, up to a tenfold increase in security and voice performance, new embedded service options, and dramatically increased slot performance and density while maintaining support for most of the more than 90 existing modules that are available today for the Cisco 1700, Cisco 2600, and Cisco 3700 Series.

The Cisco 2800 Series features the ability to deliver multiple high-quality simultaneous services at wire speed up to multiple T1/E1/xDSL connections. The routers offer embedded encryption acceleration and on the motherboard voice digital-signal-processor (DSP) slots; intrusion prevention system (IPS) and firewall functions; optional integrated call processing and voice mail support; high-density interfaces for a wide range of connectivity requirements; and sufficient performance and slot density for future network expansion requirements and advanced applications.

Smart-UPS VT offers IT professionals the performance and legendary reliability of the award winning Smart-UPS family. Expanding up through to small data centers, remote offices, Point of Sale applications and laboratory equipment Smart-UP VT is ideal for entry level and performance power protection needs. Smart-UPS VT features double-conversion on-line design and offers internal and external batteries in a user friendly, scalable design. The UPS includes dual mains input for increased availability and a built-in maintenance bypass breaker.

The HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive represents HP's third-generation of LTO tape drive technology. Positioned as the highest capacity drive in the StorageWorks family, the Ultrium 960 features an 800 GB compressed (2: 1) storage capacity using new LTO 3 media. By doubling the capacity of current Ultrium drives, HP customers now require fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing their IT costs and increasing their ROI.

The Ultrium 960 also features a compressed (2: 1) data transfer rate of 160 MB/s. Using a new 16-channel recording head, an Ultra320 SCSI interface, and increases in media tracks and bit density, the HP Ultrium 960 sets a new performance benchmark as the world's fastest tape drive. For customers that continually experience shrinking backup windows, the Ultrium 960 is the ideal direct-attach backup storage solution for enterprise and mid-range server, as well as entry-level hard drive arrays.

Kingston is the world's largest independent memory manufacturer. In today's performance-driven environment, memory upgrades provide an easy, economical alternative to increase system performance. Every memory product Kingston offers is designed to help you get maximum performance at the best price to you.

This memory is designed for Apple Power Mac G5 1.6GHz.

The Cisco Catalyst 4948 is a wire-speed, low-latency, Layer 2-4, 1-rack-unit (1 RU) fixed-configuration switch for rack-optimized server switching. Based on the proven Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series hardware and software architecture, the Cisco Catalyst 4948 Series offers exceptional performance and reliability for low density, multilayer aggregation of high performance servers and workstations.

The Cisco Catalyst 4948 offers 48 ports of wire-speed 10/100/1000BASE-T with 4 alternative wired ports that can accommodate optional 1000BASE-X Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) optics. Exceptional reliability and serviceability are delivered with optional internal AC or DC 1 + 1 hot-swappable power supplies and a hot-swappable fan tray with redundant fans.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the next generation of the Windows Server operating system that helps information technology (IT) professionals maximize control over their infrastructure while providing unprecedented availability and management capabilities, leading to a significantly more secure, reliable, and robust server environment than ever before. Windows Server 2008 delivers new value to organizations by ensuring all users regardless of location are able to get the full complement of services from the network. Windows Server 2008 also provides deep insight into the operating system and diagnostic capabilities to allow administrators to spend more time adding business value.

Windows Server 2008 is far more than a refinement of predecessor operating systems. Windows Server 2008 is designed to provide organizations with the most productive platform for powering applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the datacenter with exciting, valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the base operating system.

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise delivers an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications. It helps improve availability with clustering and hot-add processor capabilities; improve security with consolidated identity management features; and reduce infrastructure costs by consolidating applications with virtualization licensing rights. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise provides the foundation for a highly dynamic, scalable IT infrastructure.

Combining concentrated 1U compute power, integrated Lights-Out management, and essential fault tolerance, the DL360 is optimized for space-constrained installations. High technologies provide a high performance system ideal for the full range of scale out applications. Additionally, the DL360 G5 steps up the fault tolerance in an ultra dense platform with redundant power, redundant fans, mirrored memory or online spare memory, embedded RAID capability, and full-featured remote Lights-Out management

This service provides knowledgeable, trained HP engineers who ensure that your HP switches and hubs receive quick and complete resolution of hardware problems, either remotely from an HP Response Center or at your site from an HP Customer Engineer.

Highlights of the HP Procurve Routing Switch 3Yr SupportPack 24HrOSM

• Good for your business and great for your budget, no unexpected cost.
• Maximise productivity by choosing the precise level of services to proactively manage your IT environment.
• Enjoy award winning support services delivered by 38,000 support experts worldwide.
• Purchasing HP Care Pack service with HP product reduces total cost of ownership.
• HP Care Pack Services delivered through accredited network of partners or by an HP engineer ensuring the best possible service.

A BladeSystem c7000 enclosure holds the server and/or storage blades plus redundant network and storage switches. It includes a shared, multi-terabit high-speed mid-plane for wire-once connectivity of server blades to network and shared storage. Power is delivered through a pooled power backplane that ensures the full capacity of the power supplies is available to all blades.

The HP StorageWorks MSL4048 Tape Library provides up to 19.2 TB of storage density in only a 4U form factor, saving valuable rack space. Perfect for small to medium business, unattended workgroup backup and restore, or remote offices, the web-based management features reduce the dependencies on local IT resources, allowing multiple sites to be supported centrally.

Freecom TapeWare LTO 960 Series offers an Ultra High Performance Backup up to 800 GB.

PRODUCT FEATURES:

Based on the leading HP LTO-Technology;

Saves up to 800 GB of data on a single data cartridge in less than 2 hours;

Up to 160 MB/s data transfer rate;

Lowest price/ GB in comparison to other tape technologies;

Internal and external 5, 25"-Solution (full height);

One Button Disaster Recovery;

Tape Alert monitors device and media and warns before errors occur;

MTBF at 250.000 hours at permanent use (100% duty cycle);

Supports WORM functionality (Write Once Read Multiple) with LTO Ultrium 3 WORM media;

Automatically cleaning of the recording head;

Reads the data while writing: the written data gets checked and automatically overwritten in case of bad media section;

Even in the case of 12.5 % recorded data loss (one complete track) on the tape, the data can be restored;

Supporting most of the operating systems and platforms like e. g. Windows (NT), NetWare, Linux, MAC OS, UNIX, Sun Solaris, Silicon Graphics, IBM AIX.

Highlights of the Freecom TapeWare LTO-960i internal Black Kit

• Based on the leading HP LTO-Technology;
• Saves up to 800 GB of data on a single data cartridge in less than 2 hours;
• Up to 160 MB/s data transfer rate;
• Lowest price/ GB in comparison to other tape technologies;
• Internal and external 5, 25"-Solution (full height);
• One Button Disaster Recovery;
• Tape Alert monitors device and media and warns before errors occur;
• MTBF at 250.000 hours at permanent use (100% duty cycle);
• Supports WORM functionality (Write Once Read Multiple) with LTO Ultrium 3 WORM media;
• Automatically cleaning of the recording head;
• Reads the data while writing: the written data gets checked and automatically overwritten in case of bad media section;
• Even in the case of 12.5 % recorded data loss (one complete track) on the tape, the data can be restored;
• Supporting most of the operating systems and platforms like e. g. Windows (NT), NetWare, Linux, MAC OS, UNIX, Sun Solaris, Silicon Graphics, IBM AIX.

Hitachi Digital CP-X608 LCD projector is designed for installation in medium and large presentation facilities at corporate venues and educational institutions. As demanded by such professional environments the new projector offers the high performance and key features users have come to expect from Hitachi. Common sense design improvements have resulted in even better user functionality, ease of operation and maintenance.

A design goal of the CP-X6xx series was to improve projector maintenance with easier to use features such as the accessible lamp door on the top of the machine and the air filter on the side where it doesn't trap dust regardless of how the unit is mounted. Maintenance is further eased with the inclusion of Hitachi's network management software which allows users to control, diagnose, monitor and manage projectors through a simple browser interface from anywhere on the network or via email alerts. The CP-X608 has the added benefit of a wireless network interface to provide even more convenient access.

Reliability of the new projector has been improved not only by less complexity but specifically with the introduction of a high performance air filter. The new electro-statically charged filter is far more effective than conventional urethane filters in ensuring that dust particles do not accumulate on critical areas of the projector including the lens mechanism, even when operating in dusty or polluted environments.

Flexible installation into venues including meeting rooms and conference rooms is aided by the vertical and horizontal manual lens shift and a range of four optional lenses with bayonet style fittings that facilitate a range of throw distances from 1.8m to 14.8m when projecting a 100" screen surface.

The HP ProLiant DL320s Storage Server is a high-density Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution that enables customers with small and medium office environments to consolidate multiple direct-attached storage (DAS) installations and management interfaces to a single centralized Windows-based file and print solution. While DAS can be fractured and difficult to track and maintain, NAS lowers your total cost of storage ownership since management and protection are performed from one interface in one location. It supports multiple file sharing protocols and Windows storage-specific tools that make file share maintenance both easy and powerful. And with optional Microsoft iSCSI Software Target, you can upgrade to host block-based storage for Exchange, SQL or other applications. The NAS solution not only aids in consolidation and cost reduction, but also helps you spend less time and effort deploying and managing file and print services.

When used in a Christie 3-chip DLP projector, this 2.4kW user-replaceable, pre-aligned Xenon lamp module offers incredibly stable color temperature, excellent color reproduction and 750 hours of operation (typical).

When used with Christie's LiteLOC light output control technology, the adjustable power range provides the best lamp technology for color matching across multiple screens.