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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... Full Story

Posted on November 18, 2005 12:03 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on November 18, 2005 11:31 AM

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... Full Story

Posted on November 18, 2005 9:29 AM

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... Full Story

Posted on November 13, 2005 11:59 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on November 10, 2005 10:43 AM

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... Full Story

Posted on November 10, 2005 12:00 AM

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... Full Story

Posted on September 19, 2005 9:44 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on August 29, 2005 1:09 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on July 26, 2005 9:03 AM

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... Full Story

Posted on July 22, 2005 9:37 AM

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)... Full Story

Posted on July 15, 2005 12:04 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on July 5, 2005 9:52 AM

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... Full Story

Posted on June 6, 2005 12:11 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on May 26, 2005 2:30 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on May 17, 2005 10:31 AM

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... Full Story

Posted on April 28, 2005 7:38 AM

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... Full Story

Posted on April 26, 2005 9:21 AM

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 ... Full Story

Posted on March 17, 2005 1:59 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on January 21, 2005 4:41 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on December 7, 2004 11:52 AM

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... Full Story

Posted on November 3, 2004 12:42 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on October 25, 2004 5:36 PM

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 ... Full Story

Posted on October 5, 2004 10:11 AM

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.... Full Story

Posted on September 15, 2004 9:53 PM

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... Full Story

Posted on September 15, 2004 1:36 PM