Articles about Cisco Systems

It’s good to be Cisco: The company can take its shots at offering business and consumer products, knowing that any failure can be absorbed and those that hit it big create revenue through hardware and software sales. The company double dips, of course, because any successful initiative benefits Cisco’s huge networking business by filling the Internet with more packets. Continue Reading »

Two deals are important in their own right and as part of the accelerating evolution of the telecom and IT industries. At the end of the day, two things are certain: Avaya is gaining valuable access by its auction win of Nortel Enterprise Solutions’ assets, and Cisco will be the big cheese in video conferencing with its acquisition of Tandberg. Continue Reading »

Often, when people talk about integration, they're essentially focused on the software. Oh, sure, hardware plays a role – and there's always the integration appliance market, but basically we're talking data and software. Continue Reading »

Two news items that hit during the past two weeks, one today and one on December 9, will lead to a lot more unified communications in the near future. Continue Reading »

There’s a new player in the unified communications sector and, to many folks, it’s a familiar name.
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While much of the interest in the UC community is focused on the fate of Continue Reading »

The global hosted IP telephony service allows businesses to bring converged voice, mobile and data services to every desktop within its organization. Continue Reading »

Unified communications is usually thought of in the context of business. The goals, generally, are to facilitate more productive and content-rich meetings, find and include folks who are in transit or otherwise indisposed and reduce travel expenditures. Continue Reading »

Carl Weinschenk spoke to In-Stat Analyst Dave Lemelin. Continue Reading »

There are key steps that can be taken to ready an organization for unified communications and advanced collaboration. This process can start before the precise mix of applications are determin Continue Reading »