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Leading IP-PBX Manufacturer in The World
A few months ago I wrote a blog titled "Alcatel IP-PBX Leader in Europe". In this blog entry, Frost & Sullivan claims that Alcatel lead in IP-PBX shipments in 2003 - more than Cisco, Avaya, etc. I then wondered who...
Cisco is SBC Shopping
According to various sources, Cisco is shopping for a Session Border Control (SBC) company. What are SBCs? Well, VoIP traffic has issues with network address translation (NAT), a commonly used system that not only allows companies to conserve IP addresses...
Cisco DNS DOS Vulnerability leads to VoIP Apocalypse?
Cisco is warning about a DNS vulnerability which could affect Cisco IP phones, Cisco routers, and Cisco ATAs. Cisco issued a patch for a domain name system vulnerability that could put some of its routers and Voice Over IP products...
On-demand Broadband via Satellite
I just received an interesting email from Segovia about "on demand broadband" (pay as you go broadband). According to the release, you can get up to 18 Mbps of high-speed broadband anywhere in the world. They even promote the fact...
Cisco and IBM Partner
Breaking news... Anytime you have two bigwigs like IBM and Cisco partner, you have to take notice...IBM and Cisco today announced they jointly plan to deliver to contact centers speech-enabled self-service solutions that combine IBM's WebSphere Voice Server product...
Cisco Acquires Sipura
Big news. Cisco acquires Sipura, who has very popular VoIP ATA products along with other VoIP products. Sipura had developed quite a popular user community. Update - Greg Galizine has some insights on the Cisco acquisition of Sipura...Cisco is...
Cisco VoIP Phone System on eBay
Check out this super high-end Cisco IP phone system on eBay for only $5.26! Wow, talk about VoIP causing profit margins and prices to go way down.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=61840&item=5749434893&rd=1 ...
Cisco Denial of Service VoIP Attack
CNET is reporting that routers running the IOS Telephony Service, Cisco CallManager Express and Survivable Remote Site Telephony features could be vulnerable. The CallManager Express feature enables Cisco IP routers to handle call processing for Cisco IP phones. Cisco said...
Cisco and IBM
According to the Yankee Group, "Cisco and IBM Are Preferred Internet Protocol Telephony Solution Providers". The Yankee Group released results of a new study that show internet protocol telephony (IPT) solution providers need to focus on the basic features that...
Cisco ATA-186 firmware and other VoIP stuff
There is a popular thread in the VoIP Forums that discusses the need for users of the popular Cisco ATA-186 to be able to download H.323 or SIP firmware for the Cisco ATA-186. Coincidentally, I was Googling ATA 186 SIP...
Cisco Boosts Security on VoIP platform
Cisco has boosted the security on its VoIP phones and new security features for its IP Communications system (CallManager) that enhances voice privacy using encryption. The new Cisco CallManager 4.1 IP telephony system extends voice media and signaling encryption support...
Spirent and Cisco Skinny Protocol
Rich Tehrani has some news about Spirent announcing support for Cisco’s Skinny protocol you should go check out. http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/voip/spirent-supports-cisco-skinny-voip.html ...
Cisco Bigwig Joins Skype Board
I read on The Street.com's website that BusinessWeek has reported that a Cisco Bigwig, namely Mike Volpi, Cisco's former strategy chief, has joined the board at Skype. Skype's P2P VoIP business model doesn't exactly fit into Cisco's VoIP business model....
Cisco vs. Juniper
I was just reading an article from BusinessWeek Online that discussed the battle between Cisco and Juniper. It hits the nail on the head with what I said yesterday about Cisco and Juniper. (Cisco New Routers Everything But the Kitchen...
Cisco acquires Dynamicsoft
Cisco Systems Inc. has acquired Dynamicsoft Inc., best known for their Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) product line, for about $55 million in cash, including the assumption of about $3.8 million in debt. dynamicsoft has always had a strong SIP core...
Cisco New Routers - Everything but the Kitchen Sink
It seems everyone is talking about Cisco’s new routers that were launched today, so I may as well jump in with my comments as well. I’m going to take a more VoIP focused angle than the other news stories I’ve...
Cisco Anti-spam breakthrough rumors
I've seen a few news stories claiming that Cisco in on the verge of a breakthrough to block spam at the router level. You know, for the technically unsavvy, it's the place where all the IP packets get routed across...
