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Shoretel Rumors

I'm reticent to spread rumors about a VoIP company's demise - I certainly don't want to be be the Valleywag of VoIP blogs. However, Rich Tehrani, my boss, has been hearing rumors about ShoreTel and it doesn't sound good. It...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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)...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Unified Communications + Air-blown Fiber + Cisco + Arizona Cardinals = Interesting

TMC is sponsoring a very interesting free webinar hosted by Cisco and the Arizona Cardinals. To increase awareness and educate the IT public of how the Cardinals’ University of Phoenix Stadium has deployed Air-blown fiber and Cisco’s Unified Communications system...

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Cisco uses open-source with OpenSER

Just caught word that Cisco is using OpenSER, an open source GPL project that is building a robust and scalable open-sourced SIP server.  Cico is using OpenSER in Cisco Service Nodes for Linksys One. You can see OpenSER mentioned on...

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Network World discusses my VoIP calling card "gloom and doom" article

So here I am happily surfing the web when I come across a Network World article titled Hype vs. reality in VoIP security. I read this excellent two page article when an article written yesterday titled "Cisco-based calling card solutions...

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Microsoft Public Beta of Office Communications Server 2007

Microsoft will open the public beta of its VoIP and unified communications server, Office Communications Server 2007, as well as its unified communications client, Office Communicator 2007, later this month. I wrote a detailed article on Office Communications Server 2007...

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The iPhone Decision: What's in It for Cisco?

Sure you've gotten over the short-lived excitement over the wraggling between Apple and Cisco over the iPhone trademark -- now that this spat has been settled. But if you think about this some (if you really want to), you have to wonder...

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Raytheon ACU-2000 IP VoIP Gateway

Raytheon of "Patriot missile" fame is set to launch a new SIP VoIP gateway called the ACU-2000 IP through their Ratheon JSP Communications subsidiary. They claim that the ACU-2000 IP is the only solution that provides a true SIP-based gateway...

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Apple and Cisco make iPhone love

Cisco and Apple said that they have settled the iPhone trademark infringement. lawsuit that has surrounded the much-hyped Apple iPhone mobile phone-iPod hybrid gadget. Apple and Cisco stated that Apple will be allowed to use the name for its mobile...

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iPhone vs iPhone vs. iSoftphone?

As if we haven't had enough of the Cisco vs. Apple iPhone battle, now we have "iSoftPhone", a clone of the Apple iPhone's skin created by Xnet Communications GmbH. iSoftPhone is a VoIP softphone for Mac OS X. They claim...

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New VoIP Call Recording Software for Mac OS X

Tomorrow, Arcosoft will release VONaLink SoloRecord, a new VoIP call recording software program for Mac OS X. VONaLink SoloRecord for Mac OS X works with any VoIP phone system utilizing the SIP standard to record calls and to provide screen...

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Telrex Announces CallRex Release 3.5 VoIP Call Recording solution

Telrex today announced CallRex Release 3.5, a business-class VoIP call recording and monitoring solution. For a round-up of VoIP call recording solutions, check out my article here. According to Telrex, the new release features a new distributed-services software architecture which...

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It Was Some Week, Wasn't It?

You knew Macworld and CES in the same week would be exciting, but who expected that Apple's show would blow the other one completely out of the water? Funny what a little iPhone announcement -- and the ensuing announcement from Cisco...

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Apple vs. Cisco over iPhone

I was just on the phone with Garvin Thomas, a reporter from NBC11 News who wanted my take on the iPhone lawsuit between Apple and Cisco and to discuss what he learned. First, when you search the US Patent and...

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Jon Arnold on bloggers

Jon Arnold has some interesting thoughts on how blogging is making in-roads in the large tech companies, including Cisco. This was in response to my blog post about how Apple was able to keep their iPhone secret from both blogger...

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The Straight Skinny on the Cisco/Apple Lawsuit

Not too surprising and plenty of blog, blog, blogging on the Cisco lawsuit over Apple's use of the iPhone name for its new little product -- did anyone miss this announcement? Great to see this Cisco news item that comes...

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Cisco sues Apple

Just one day after the Apple iPhone was announced, Cisco announced it was suing Apple over trademark infringment. Apparently, they were under negotiations, but they fell though. David Berlind at ZDNet has more. Any name ideas? I was thinking aPhone...

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The iPhone Arrives ... via Cisco

While all of us blogged on and on about the union of the iPod and the cell phone into something we all loved to call the iPhone, Cisco has quietly been watching and waiting, not saying a word, even though...

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Asterisk replaces Cisco CallManager

If you recall, back in March, I talked about how Cisco was embracing the SIP standard, i.e. "Cisco is fully embracing the SIP standard on their desktop phones. I interviewed Cisco last week and they told me that I was...

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A-IMS aims to improve or fracture the IMS standard?

Verizon, Cisco, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel and Qualcomm along with key telecom industry suppliers, today announced a vision for the advancement of next-generation network architecture for wireless mobile telecommunications networks. Their goal has been to develop enhancements to a well...

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Microsoft and Nortel to co-develop IP-PBX

Microsoft and Nortel announced an alliance as part of Microsoft's overall unified communications push. Nortel said it expects more than $1 billion in new revenue over the life of the four-year pact, under which the companies will work together on...

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IP-PBX market numbers continue to shine

Interesting IP-PBX stats within Infonetics's Enterprise Telephony report that shows IP-PBXs continued growth even with a generally slower 1st quarter. They also list the current IP-PBX market leaders (Cisco is listed as #1). This report doesn't list this, but I'd...

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ShoreTel 6.1 new IP-PBX features

ShoreTel announced version 6.1 of their IP-PBX which delivers feature-rich IP key system functionality to branch offices and small businesses. Many competing IP-PBXs, Cisco included have neglected or have limited "key system" functionality in their IP-PBX line, which is why...

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Cisco Unified Communications Changes Everything?

Cisco at 12am March 6th will launch their new Unified Communications System (www.cisco.com/go/unified) aimed at streamlining business processes, and helping to drive productivity. Unified Communications (UC) will feature new presence, desktop tools, mobile integration and network intelligence to improve business...

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Citrix and Cisco Collaborate to Unify Communications and Business Applications

Last week was quite hectic for me wiith Cisco, Citrix, and Adtran telling me some interesting news they were coming out with the following Monday (today). I did extensive interviews with all three companies and spent a good deal of...

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Skype, Google, Microsoft and Cisco all in one panel

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland assembled quite the star-studded team of technology gurus and CEOs from Skype, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco to discuss IP communications. This included Microsoft's Bill Gates, Cisco's John Chambers, Google's Eric Schmidt and Skype/Ebay's...

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A Very Cisco Christmas

Hat tip to Greg Galitzine, Editor of Internet Telephony Magazine who forwarded me an email with a video attachment titled "A Very Cisco Christmas". Greg got it from a friend who works at Cisco. For a little holiday fun, check...

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Trader Joe's goes VoIP

Trader Joe's is a popular specialty grocery store with some interesting if not downright exotic foods. They aren't "big" yet, but they are growing pretty fast with several locations, including one just 2 miles from where I work in Norwalk...

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Cisco acquires Scientic Atlanta set-top box company

According to BusinessWire, Cisco Systems, Inc. has acquired Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Scientific-Atlanta is a global provider of set-top boxes, end-to-end video distribution networks and video system integration. According to the release, "The combined entity creates a world class, end-to-end triple play...

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Cisco Bets on Set-Top Boxes

Big news this morning with Cisco buying Scientific-Atlanta, the maker of television set-top boxes, for $7 billion.   The deal will make it possible for Cisco to sell digital television equipment for HD and on demand programming as well as interactive...

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Linksys One

On June 15, I made a bold prediction about Linksys. I predicted, "I'm going to go out on a limb and make a prediction that Linksys will sell a turnkey, "plug and play" SOHO IP-PBX in 2006 ". I received...

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Nero, Microsoft, Linksys - what a busy day!

Yesterday, was an extemely busy day for me as I had conference calls with both Microsoft and Linksys. Two huge big shots in the computing and networking worlds. I also an in-person meeting with one of my favorite software applications...

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Microsoft and Cisco think ICE is cool stuff!

Microsoft and Cisco Think ICE Is Cool Stuff!By ROBERT LIU and TOM KEATINGTMCnet EditorsOne of the biggest technological challenges confronting the voice over IP (VoIP) industry has always been the firewall. That’s because stray voice signaling and media packets...

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Cisco targets SMB

I had a conference call last week to discuss Cisco's major push into the SMB (small-to-medium)-sized market. I've been meaning to blog about the call with Cisco and Cisco targetting the SMB market with a plethora of new products, but...

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Cisco IP Phone 7985G Videophone Part 2

It appears the new Cisco IP Phone 7985G Videophone is OEM'ed from Tandberg (image to left which is identical to the image I posted about the Cisco videophone on Friday).If the Cisco videophone has the same feature-set as the...

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Cisco buys Sheer Networks

Cisco is on a buying spree! Recently Cisco bought Kiss Technology, now Cisco today just bought Sheer Networks. Check out the Cisco/Sheer Networks news release.Question is, who's next? And will this mean other Cisco competitors will start a buying spree...

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Kiss me Cisco!

According to CNet, Cisco announced that its Linksys division will acquire Kiss Technology of Denmark, for $61 million. As you probably know, Cisco bought Sipura Technology, an ATA manufacturer for its Linksys division.As CNet points out, "Cisco has built...

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Cisco Call Manager Security Flaw

According to TechWeb, flaws in Cisco's Call Manager software could allow an attacker to bring down the software resulting in a DoS (denial of service) attack that will knock your VoIP-based phone system offline. According to Internet Security Systems' (ISS)...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...