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Cisco has been in acquisition mode lately and has been picking up companies it deems interesting, sometimes for a hefty sum. More than a month ago, the networking giant announced its plans to acquire Norwegian video conferencing technology company Tandberg for $3 billion. The investors were apparently unimpressed by... |
16 November 2009
11:59 GMT |
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After years when the videoconferencing technology didn't have a good-enough broadband to take advantage of, the advances in networking (the Ethernet, for instance) may finally be able to provide enough resources for the worldwide spreading of videoconferencing solutions. Cisco and Logitech seem to be in a race t... |
16 November 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Until not so long ago, business representatives had to travel up to thousands of miles in order to present other companies with offers or marketing plans. As such, collaborations between businesses separated by long distances went slowly and saw more emerging obstacles than today. The invention of the webcam was the ... |
11 November 2009
03:36 GMT |
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Cisco is well known in some circles for its networking hardware and services, but, lately, it has been acquiring a string of companies in diverse fields showing that it is ready to move into different markets and that it's bound to become one of the big tech giants. Now, it's encroaching further into foreig... |
9 November 2009
05:19 GMT |
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The economy may not exactly be roaring back to life but it does look like it's picking up slightly if only from the wave of big acquisitions lately. Cisco is the latest to the party as it announces it has bought Norwegian video conferencing company Tandberg for $3 billion, a nice plump sum for this type of compa... |
1 October 2009
10:18 GMT |
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Despite mounting legal issues and the recent sale, Skype is moving ahead with plans to increase revenue. One area where it wants to generate more income is from business services and the company has just announced that its Skype for SIP offering is now supported by Cisco’s Unified Communications 500 Series for ... |
23 September 2009
10:41 GMT |
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On October 29th, the Internet will turn 40 years old. Marking this occasion, IEEE has held an international event in Los Angeles, USA to mark its own 125th anniversary and the upcoming birthday of the former ARPAnet project, currently referred to as the Internet. At this event many renowned scientists and Internet ex... |
18 September 2009
08:53 GMT |
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AirMagnet, a wireless security provider, has recently disclosed a vulnerability inside Cisco Access Point discovery procedure for WLANs. This allows attackers to sniff network details from existing network traffic thanks to unencrypted multicast frames or sky-jack a Cisco equipment every time an access point is conne... |
25 August 2009
11:15 GMT |
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Cisco, the leader in networking tools around the globe, has recently released a patch for its routers and switches fixing a critical vulnerability in its IOS BGP protocol. This vulnerability allowed hackers to fool an equipment to think it was under attack and remotely shut it down. BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is a... |
22 August 2009
04:09 GMT |
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Cisco may be well known for its high-end networking hardware but it's pushing hard into other, sometimes completely unrelated, fields like consumer electronics and software. The company has now announced with Warner Brothers Music Group a new deal in which the big music label will use Cisco's Eos platform t... |
13 August 2009
08:16 GMT |
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Cisco, the renowned communications hardware and software maker, has issued a forecast of IP traffic for the coming years. The company expects IP traffic to increase fivefold compared to today, reaching two-thirds of a zettabyte by 2013. That's two thirds of a trillion gigabytes with a compound annual growth rate... |
10 June 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Clearwire Corporation announced on Wednesday a partnership with Cisco, aimed at the enhancement and expansion of CLEAR 4G mobile WiMAX services in the United States. According to the agreement, Cisco will become Clearwire's national Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) infrastructure provider, whil... |
14 May 2009
03:12 GMT |
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With the introduction of a new data center architecture, Cisco made a key move in bringing to life its Data Center 3.0 strategy. The Cisco Unified Computing System, in combination with services and an open ecosystem, has Microsoft's blessing as it will be Windows-based. The Redmond company revealed that it has i... |
16 March 2009
11:22 GMT |
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The government of Portugal developed the Technological Plan for Education with the focus on integrating new technologies in the educational system. As a partner working to make the Technological Plan for Education a reality, Cisco technologies will be used to provide high-quality LANs as well as wireless network conn... |
12 March 2009
06:11 GMT |
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Yesterday, March 11, 2009, Cisco announced on its Newsroom that it would help the ones in need by participating to the Red Nose auction, initiated by Comic Relief. Also, the company is preparing for its first “Virtual Auction,” because its personnel from Ireland and UK will be a part of the program too. T... |
12 March 2009
04:13 GMT |
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Yesterday, Cisco announced the launch of an innovative wireless access point that combined the full performance of 802.11n with deployment simplicity, thus allowing businesses to support the growing trend and diversity of mobile devices and software, while still obtaining financial profit. The company releases the ne... |
14 January 2009
02:14 GMT |
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Microsoft is one of the companies involved in the development of a new international assessment standard designed to measure accurately the performance of educational systems worldwide. The Redmond giant has partnered with Cisco and Intel, and revealed commitment to combine their efforts in order to fuel a multi-sect... |
13 January 2009
07:59 GMT |
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Cisco announced recently the launch of a new channel initiative which, is aimed at channel resellers from the United States and Canada that are moving into the home and small office/home office (SOHO) area of the market. The Cisco CCN (Cisco Consumer Channel Network) is a component of the popular Channel Partner Prog... |
13 January 2009
02:35 GMT |
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Cisco sponsored an online research study, concerning the number of video watchers, as well as their attitude and behavior, especially on their mobile phones. The study was made first to verify how USA consumers use online technology and its impact on their political decision making and then it was launched worldwide.... |
9 January 2009
08:41 GMT |
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The Free Software Foundation, one of the principal advocates and protectors of open source software has filed a complaint against communications technology giant Cisco for copyright infringement. According to the foundation, Cisco had been using programs such as GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) or the GLibC (GNU C Libra... |
12 December 2008
12:35 GMT |
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Cisco published no less than 12 new security advisories on September 24 describing multiple moderate and high risk vulnerabilities that affect the IOS software and the Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Software updates have been released to address some of these security issues, so updating immediately is highly ... |
25 September 2008
05:24 GMT |
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The debut of September 2008 marked the one year anniversary of the Microsoft and Cisco marriage on the interoperability front. The two companies permitted customers to dictate the next move in their competitive "ballet," and in this regard kicked up a notch the interoperability level of Cisco hardware and Microsoft s... |
4 September 2008
08:48 GMT |
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Cisco updated their previously released advisory, regarding a buffer overflow vulnerability in WebEx Meeting Manager, with a permanent patch. The vulnerability, with a 9.3 Common Vulnerability Scoring System Base score, can allow for arbitrary code execution if exploited successfully.An ActiveX control buffer overflo... |
18 August 2008
10:24 GMT |
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As we told you before, Intel is placing significant importance on the development of WiMAX on a global scale. As part of the company's commitment to offer users a worldwide spread WiMAX network, Intel has recently announced that it will partner with a number of other major companies in order to accelerate widesp... |
11 June 2008
04:45 GMT |
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The United States government is reportedly using no less than 3500 fake Cisco-branded network devices, including routers, network switches and hubs. According to the investigation results, the fake devices are worth up to $3.5 million. The FBI has been keeping an eye on the China imports of networking gear for some t... |
12 May 2008
04:55 GMT |
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Network giant Cisco could dissolve its Linksys home networking-oriented brand sooner than anyone would expect. The networking specialist has been selling its consumer and small-business products under both brands, a strategy that is proven to confuse the consumer.According to Cisco's chairman and CEO John Chambe... |
15 April 2008
11:01 GMT |
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Motherboard manufacturer DFI has just issued a consumer warning about some fake motherboard models that are touted as manufactured by the company. However, despite the fact that the counterfeit units are similar with DFI's models, the imitations are stamped as DFI MCP78V and MCP68PV, two models that are not pres... |
14 April 2008
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United States Air Force Secretary plans to add more satellite clusters and IP routing devices into space, in order to boost the satellites' performance. According to Wynne, the current embedded routing technology is not efficient anymore."Even as we've moved to smaller mission satellites, embedded router te... |
10 April 2008
06:18 GMT |
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WebEx, who is now part of Cisco has increased its support for the Mac across its entire suite, as adoption of the platform has more than doubled in the last year. WebEx Meeting Center, WebEx WebOffice, WebEx Event Center, WebEx Training Center, WebEx Sales Center and WebEx Support Center now offer cross platform supp... |
26 March 2008
12:01 GMT |
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Sun's executive vice president of processor division David Yen announced its departure from the company after about 20 years spent at the server vendor. The ex-head of Sun's semiconductor unit is alleged to join networking gear manufacturer Juniper Networks.According to Sun spokespersons, Yen's positio... |
25 March 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Lockdown Networks, one of the Intel-funded prodigal sons, was forced to shut down its activities because of "economic conditions and a lack of demand" in its network access control products. The company made the mistake of competing against the network giant Cisco in the network access control business.Intel started ... |
21 March 2008
10:23 GMT |
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xtreme Networks has just announced new features for its upcoming Ethernet switches, that will make the transition between time-division multiplexing to Internet Protocol technologies inside corporate and enterprise networks.The company is trying to outpace its most fierce competitors on the networking market, Cisco ... |
10 March 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Cisco Systems is one of the world's top-tier networking gear providers, and its products are extreme popular among professionals and enterprise customers. In fact, they are so popular that counterfeit devices have started to emerge on the market.The US and Canadian customs authorities have seized about $78 milli... |
1 March 2008
03:55 GMT |
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After it has released its latest server operating system to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, Microsoft is now ready to push Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 one step further and onto Cisco WAAS appliances. All with Cisco's blessing, of course. The two companies have produced a joint announcement revealing th... |
26 February 2008
10:13 GMT |
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Cisco has just introduced the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor, a fully integrated and programmable networking chipset that can be called the most advanced piece of networking semiconductor in the world. It took Cisco more than five years to bake the 40-core networking chip, and now it's here and ready to kick some b... |
26 February 2008
05:32 GMT |
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Networking expert Cisco is reported to join worldwide cities in order to experiment on energy efficiency. Currently present in Seoul, Lisbon, Madrid, San Francisco and Hamburg, the company attempts to find the perfect recipe to spread all over the world.Cisco has equipped one of San Francisco's municipal buses w... |
21 February 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Network specialist Cisco has just announced that it finished outlining the upcoming wireless network of 2,500 routers at the Duke University. The effort resulted in world's largest 802.11n network owned by a single organization to date.While the 802.11n standard is still in draft form, wireless networking gear p... |
20 February 2008
04:07 GMT |
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Networking giant Cisco Systems announced a 7.2 percent rise in quarterly profit. The company has announced increased revenue especially by selling its telephony gear. The company's figures were just as expected by the Wall Street analysts, and brought Cisco a raise of 1.2 percent in its shares."One of the key is... |
7 February 2008
02:51 GMT |
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IBM has been reported to open two new offshore outsourcing centers in India. It may seem surprising, but the company is facing serious problems regarding workforce availability, since finding and retaining quality IT staff has become a challenge.The company announced that it has already opened the gates of a new glob... |
6 February 2008
12:16 GMT |
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Networking gear is extremely delicate, and many users get in contact with it through a thick and protective layer of glass that guard locked cabinets. At this point, nobody would ever think of smashing it with a hammer or shaking it to "death".Home networking is extremely different from the harsh, industrial environm... |
5 February 2008
11:53 GMT |
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Cisco has released a plan to boost the Indian number of networking engineers from about 60,000 as available today to 360,000 within five years. The new engineers will be trained by Cisco and certified on Cisco networking gear and technologies. There have been rumors recently that alleged that Cisco is having financia... |
5 February 2008
06:55 GMT |
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Juniper is not too much of a name in home and small office networking market, but enterprise level system administrators hiding inside server closets have many times seen the company as a reliable partner. The enterprise networking sector is currently dominated by Cisco Systems, and all that it takes for Juniper to c... |
31 January 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Cisco, the top provider of routers and switches that direct Internet traffic, and by that, one of the companies holding the weight of Internet on its shoulders, has said in the voice of its Chief Executive, John Chambers, that the continuing build of networks will be lasting for a decade from now on. The deadline he ... |
30 January 2008
13:36 GMT |
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Networking expert Cisco Systems has started promoting its new networking switch, the Nexus, that is alleged to be the first component of the Data Center 3.0 architecture. At the same time, the new product is a refurbished version of Cisco's Catalyst 6500, one of the company's sweetheart products.The new Ne... |
28 January 2008
11:01 GMT |
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Server expert IBM and networking specialist Cisco have jointly announced the opening of a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center, as an extension of IBM's already existing Montpellier HPC Center.The new facility will be used by the companies' customers and business partners for testing or benchmarking anal... |
22 January 2008
05:49 GMT |
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Networking solutions specialist Cisco has started pumping up significant amounts of cash into SoonR, a company that provides its subscribers with mobile access to their desktops.Both parties refused to elaborate on the details of their financial partnership, but SoonR issued a statement early this week that alleged t... |
11 January 2008
11:38 GMT |
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Cisco is the world leader in networking and telecommunications devices. The home Internet connection is routed by Cisco's networking gear, just as mobile communications and whatever might connect us with the rest of the planet. However, these things don't keep Cisco busy enough so the giant is determined to... |
11 January 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Cisco, the networking giant, plans to introduce a new technology that would allow server and storage vendors collect critical data about equipments and send it to Cisco via the manufacturer's networking devices. Cisco will use open standards in order to collect essential data, such as power consumption, operati... |
28 December 2007
02:56 GMT |
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Cisco's executive vice president and chief development officer, Charles Giancarlo, will resign from his post as of December 31. The 50-year old executive was the second-in-command at the company and will put an end to a 14-year career with the networking expert.According to the company CEO John Chambers, he repe... |
21 December 2007
06:00 GMT |
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Cisco Systems has announced that the company will soon unveil new lines of consumer products, such as video set-top boxes. The company aims at taking the lead in the consumer electronics business, just as they have managed to conquer the telecom and corporate sectors with their networking gear.According to the compan... |
21 December 2007
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