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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
