Telecompetitor

No deal is imminent, but the blogosphere is all abuzz this morning about the possibility that Cisco may try to buy Skype before Skype’s pending IPO. The rumored valuation is somewhere around $5 billion for the global IP ...

Security was one of those topics that usually ended up at the end of most agendas and service provider conferences you’ve attended over the years.  Yet for being thought of last, security is actually one of the topics that elicits the greatest responses from subscribers. Today, Cisco has released their ...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – June 30, 2010 - To help organizations accelerate the adoption of unified communications and improve performance, Verizon Business will be the first U.S.-based global service provider to deliver Cisco unified communications and collaboration applications in the cloud "as-a-service.". The company next month will begin field trials of the new Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution, introduced Wednesday (June 30) at ...

MANKATO, Minn., Jun 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Enventis, a subsidiary of HickoryTech (Nasdaq: HTCO), has achieved both the Master Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco(R). This designation recognizes Enventis as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support highly sophisticated Cisco unified communications solutions in the United States. "We are very proud to achieve this prestigious ...

Adding to its Connected Grid line of smart grid/energy management technology for homes and businesses, Cisco yesterday introduced the Cisco Home Energy Management Solution, which includes the Home Energy Controller, a countertop network device with an LCD touchscreen ...

The new Cius wireless tablet to be available from Cisco by early next year, has drawn numerous comparisons to Apple’s iPad, but Cisco prefers to view the products as complementary. According to press reports from the Cisco Live event where the product ...

Cisco yesterday unveiled the latest in its flagship Carrier Routing System line of Internet networking platforms: capable of delivering up to 322 terabits (tbs) per second of throughput, the CRS-3 triples the capacity of the CRS-1 and offers 12 times the traffic-handling capacity of its nearest ...

Globally, the average broadband connection generates some 11.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month--roughly the equivalent of 3,000 text emails, 100 MP3 files or 360 text-only ebooks per connection per day, according to Cisco's Visual Networking Index Usage study, which includes anonymous and current traffic ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2008--Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced availability of Sprint Wireless Integration with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, an integrated mobility solution that delivers fixed mobile convergence to businesses - only on the Now Network(TM). Sprint Wireless Integration extends customers' Cisco Unified Communications Manager functionality to Sprint mobile phones, providing productivity, cost efficiencies, and greater control of mobile ...