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What Do You Do When Your Network Goes Down?

Cisco has the answer for what you and your coworkers can do when your network goes down. Pretty damn hilarious!Via Cisco UC500 blog... Full Story

Posted on October 2, 2009 10:15 AM

Cisco Buys Tandberg, but does Video Interoperability Suffer?

Cisco bought Tandberg, a video conferencing company for $3 billion. But is this good for the video conferencing industry or bad? Let's have a recap of Cisco's "openness" and adoption of standards. First, Cisco was very late to adopt the... Full Story

Posted on October 1, 2009 9:40 AM

Aastra Launches HD VoIP Audio called Hi-Q & Takes on Polycom

At ITEXPO, Aastra announced G.722 wideband audio codec support (HD audio) in their new 67xxi firmware version 2.5.0 or later. It's available as a free download from Aastra with no strings attached. No need to upgrade your 67xxi (formerly 57XXi)... Full Story

Posted on September 3, 2009 4:36 PM

SmartSIP Launches for OCS 2007 R2 Enabling Any SIP Phone & Any SIP Trunking Service Provider

OCS 2007 R2 won't replace your PBX just yet. However, their latest R2 version adds the ability to do direct SIP trunking, thus bypassing the need for an IP-PBX. One drawback however is that Microsoft only supports direct SIP... Full Story

Posted on March 4, 2009 5:23 PM

John Chambers Blogs about Broadband Stimulus on GigaOM

Om Malik sent a note saying Cisco CEO John Chambers posted a guest blog entry so I went to check it out.John begins:Now that President Obama has signed the $787 billion economic stimulus package into law, the real hard work... Full Story

Posted on March 4, 2009 10:20 AM

SHSU Switches Back to Cisco CallManager from Asterisk

In 2006, I came across a Network World article, which espoused the fact that Sam Houston State University (SHSU) had switched from the Cisco CallManager IP-PBX to open source Asterisk. I wrote about this news since 6,000 students and faculty... Full Story

Posted on February 27, 2009 11:17 AM

Cisco TelePresence Video Conferencing Enables Fans to Interact with NBA Players

This weekend, the NBA and ESPN will utilize Cisco TelePresence technology to create an interactive "in-person" forum to allow athletes and fans to interact using Cisco's videoconferencing / telepresence technology. According to Cisco, Cisco TelePresence has been deployed on the... Full Story

Posted on February 13, 2009 3:17 PM

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 7.0 with WebEx integration Review

Here is a preview of the TMC Labs review of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 7.0, which is scheduled to be published in the March issue of Internet Telephony Magazine. Enjoy! Cisco Systems, Inc. Web site: http://www.cisco.com Pricing: 40 concurrent user licenses... Full Story

Posted on February 5, 2009 12:10 PM

Cisco ASR 9000 High-end Router Launches

Cisco Systems unveiled a supercharged router called the ASR 9000, which is capable of moving 6.4 terabytes per second of traffic. The router is aimed at service providers with next-generation networks which plan to run bandwidth heavy services such as... Full Story

Posted on November 11, 2008 3:20 PM

Cisco AutoQoS Enables Easy VoIP QoS

Saw a good article on Enterprise Networking Planet about AutoQoS, a new Cisco IOS command to make provisioning QoS on your router much simpler -- much more plug-n-play. With time-sensitive (latency, jitter) apps such as VoIP, QoS is critical. How... Full Story

Posted on September 11, 2008 9:57 AM

Digium AsteriskNOW News and more...

As I hinted last week, I would have some "interesting" news to tell after my visit to Digium's brand new headquarters along with colleagues Greg Galitzine and Dave Rodriguez. Before I get into the MAJOR news being made by... Full Story

Posted on August 25, 2008 1:32 PM

The IP-PBX Energy Wars...

So today I get a new report from the Tolly Group stating that the ShoreTel Unified Communications system is significantly more energy efficient than the Cisco Unified Communications Manager. ShoreTel apparently topped Cisco in using less energy to drive VoIP... Full Story

Posted on August 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Cisco Manager Meets Jurassic Park

You remember the scene in Jurassic Park where the there was no power or working phones on the island so they head to the control room? Lex Murphy, the young hacker girl, gets on a computer, works some computer wizardry... Full Story

Posted on July 10, 2008 12:10 PM

Unified Communications Growth Soars

Infonetics sent me over a summary of their latest report on the unified communications (UC) market.  Infonetics Research reports that the unified communications market, which includes unified messaging and communicator software, jumped 20% sequentially in 2007, following a 19% increase... Full Story

Posted on June 23, 2008 4:07 PM

Shoretel Rumors

SHORETEL UPDATE: 4/24/09Could it be - with ShoreTel continuing to provide PBX solutions - that the rumors I reported about them nearly a year ago were false? Is it now clear that Rich's sources that sparked this article were wrong?Shoretel... Full Story

Posted on May 1, 2008 10:18 AM

Cisco and Microsoft in Clash of the UC Titans

According to a new study by analyst firm Infonetics Research, Cisco and Microsoft are locked in a "battle of the titans" for the unified communications (UC) market, with both vendors currently favored by buyers as Unified Messaging and Communicator... Full Story

Posted on April 24, 2008 2:35 PM

Ring Voltage, REN, VoIP and a Bolt of Blue

In 1999, I wrote a humorous article for CTI Magazine, the precursor to Internet Telephony Magazine, about my adventures with a power outage at TMC that took out our Dialogic MSI analog cards in our PC-PBX. The MSI cards are... Full Story

Posted on April 24, 2008 12:03 PM

Hosted VoIP Packet Sniffing

Packet Island, Inc. today announced that they will demonstrate their latest SaaS-based sniffer product, PacketPro at TMC's ITEXPO conference in Miami. This SaaS-based product has the ability to provide managed service providers and IT outsourcing companies remote visibility to troubleshoot... Full Story

Posted on January 22, 2008 5:25 PM

University of Cambridge claims largest IP telephony system

Score one for Cisco. They now claim that the University of Cambridge has become one of the largest if not the largest IP telephony system in the education sector. Cisco and BT announced the deployment in a multi-million pound deal... Full Story

Posted on January 14, 2008 5:05 PM

Chris Lyman on Unified Communications

Greg Galitzine has an excellent interview with Fonality CEO, Chris Lyman about unified communications, Microsoft (OCS 2007), and Cisco. Chris goes into the threat he believes Microsoft and Cisco may pose, as well as some analysis of Microsoft Response Point... Full Story

Posted on October 19, 2007 4:20 PM

Unified Communications Deployment Blues

Today, unified communications is being touted by many, including Microsoft with their Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) due out later this year and Cisco with their aptly named  Cisco Unified Communications. Unified communications often combines many or all of... Full Story

Posted on August 29, 2007 11:54 AM

Avaya #1 VoIP PBX Vendor?

I was too busy yesterday to blog this news, but thought it was still important enough to mention. Yesterday, I received an email stating that Avaya, a traditional PBX manufacturer had "widened its lead in worldwide enterprise Internet protocol (IP)... Full Story

Posted on August 21, 2007 11:55 AM

Deep Throat Shoots Verizon Patent Out of the Water

An anonymous source, let's call him/her my "Deep Throat" source emailed me with a couple of interesting links that seem to disprove Verizon's patent claims. One of the most important things in fighting patent claims is demonstrating "prior art" that... Full Story

Posted on April 19, 2007 3:33 PM

VoIP Patents run amok

We have all been following the various VoIP patent lawsuits. From the Rates Technology vs. Google Talk lawsuit, to Apple vs Cisco iPhone lawsuit, Verizon vs. Vonage patent infringement and many more. Well, Production Ad Absurdam has a couple of... Full Story

Posted on April 2, 2007 11:57 AM

Cisco acquires WebEx

Cisco has acquired WebEx for approximately $3.2 billion, according to the Cisco website. WebEx is one of the most well-known companies in the hosted on-demand collaboration application space. Although WebEx is very well-known (who hasn't used it?), in my opinion... Full Story

Posted on March 15, 2007 1:48 PM