Cisco launches Web-based video product
21823
Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O on Tuesday   launched a Web-based product to help businesses deliver live   and on-demand videos to large groups, in its latest push to   expand into the enterprise video market.
297365
A video site hopes to make sense of the ever-increasing number of Web videos by allowing its users to tag sections of videos and find specific scenes within those videos without having to watch the entire clip.
53579
Blog: Although it was announced back in April, the Internet video site, still in limited testing, is getting renewed attention this week.
77939
Blinkx, a start-up in San Francisco, has created a video search method, a kind of remote control for Web videos.
277324
Cisco Systems Inc. said on Monday it  has acquired software to create online social networking sites  from privately held Utah Street Networks, Inc., the operator of  Tribe.net.
485498
Seeking to further push digital media into homes, Apple Computer launched its long-awaited online movie service Tuesday and showed off a device that will make it easier for consumers to watch the videos on television.
236670
Cisco Systems and Microsoft&#39;s partnership in the small and midsize business market is bearing fruit. On Monday, Cisco announced a new software product that will link its voice over Internet protocol products
84311
(InfoWorld) - A rising tide lifts all boats, and in the world of videoconferencing, Cisco Systems' high-profile TelePresence products are boosting the market as a whole. Longtime player Tandberg is trying to make the most of the good times. In the latest move for market position, Tandberg said Thursday it plans to acquire privately held Codian, a maker of back-end infrastructure for other vendors' conferencing endpoints. The 107-employee company, based in Slough, U.K., will help Tandberg grab sales and develop new products faster as well as go after new opportunities in the IP communications market, Tandberg said. It expects the $270 million deal to close in the third quarter. Cisco's TelePresence, introduced late last year, was practically all Cisco executives would talk about when they met with financial analysts this week, and with good reason: The technology costs up to $300,000 per location and requires special design and installation work, but it looks and sounds great. Using it has already slashed Cisco's travel costs, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said. The marketing effort Cisco has been pouring into TelePresence has raised the profile of other telepresence systems, such as Hewlett-Packard's Halo and Teliris's VirtuaLive. These systems bring videoconferencing, traditionally complicated and low quality, to another level. In turn, they have put the spotlight on improvements in midrange videoconferencing systems that now feature high-definition cameras and displays and better sound. "The attention has done more for HD videoconferencing than for telepresence," she said. "The price tag (on telepresence) is still prohibitive for most enterprises." Whereas telepresence usually involves designing a whole room for a particular system, which can even include special furniture and room modifications, midrange high-definition videoconferencing may be installed in an existing conference room or as upgraded components to an existing system, IDC's Freedman said. These systems can be deployed for a fraction of the cost of telepresence. Codian makes back-end infrastructure for conferencing systems, including MCUs (multipoint control units), gateways, content servers, and management software, Tandberg said. Tandberg pledged to continue developing and supporting both its own and Codian's product lines even though both companies make, for example, MCUs. Tandberg, based in Oslo, is already working with HP to let users hook up its high-definition desktop videoconferencing systems with Halo conference rooms. Although the telepresence market is still a "corporate jet replacement" for top-level executives, the market isn't standing still, Freedman said. IDC estimated telepresence sales worldwide were just $64 million in 2006, but believes they will rise to $170 million this year and to $1 billion by 2011. Polycom, which makes a broad range of conferencing products including a telepresence system, moved to grab more of that market early this year when it acquired Destiny Conferencing for $47.6 million. The 27-employee company was already supplying core technology for Polycom's RPX telepresence product and held several patents in the area.
653190
(InfoWorld) - Over the next few months, Cisco plans to enhance a range of its security products, offering customers an integrated and improved line of products. The company plans a major new release to the software that runs its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) product. Also in the works are updates to the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Cisco Security Agent (CSA), Cisco Security Manager (CSM), and Mitigation Analysis and Response System (MARS). The upcoming Version 8.0 of the ASA software will include about 120 enhancements, but perhaps most significantly, its AnyConnect VPN client will now work on a much broader range of platforms, including Windows Vista, Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition. "We're extending this out of the traditional realm of just laptops," said Bob Berlin, a Cisco senior product marketing manager. Cisco is also improving the information-sharing capabilities between its IPS 6.0 and CSA 5.2 software to make the products better able to identify and block emerging threats. Another new feature will allow CSA to assign quality-of-service tagging to network traffic so performance can be boosted on applications such as VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol). Using engineering talent it acquired in its 2004Â purchase of Riverhead Networks, Cisco has also developed new algorithms that allow the IPS software to better analyze potentially malicious activity on the network. The ISA software will also be better integrated and easier to manage with the upcoming version 3.1 of CSM. After years of acquisitions, Cisco is just now starting to hook its security products together, said Robert Whiteley, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. This is critical if Cisco wants to maintain its new position as a player in the security space, he said. "Whether people acknowledge it or not, Cisco is one of the largest security vendors," Whiteley said. "But they haven't had quite as much of an integrated story as you'd see from a [security ] specialist." Cisco has had a lot of integrating to do. The company has made about 10 security-related acquisitions in the past three years. The company now posts more than $2 billion in annual security product sales and employs more than 1,400 security engineers, according to Richard Palmer, senior vice president of Cisco's Security Technology Group. Cisco may be starting to integrate its existing security products now, but it would also like to extend its offerings to address new areas such as data leakage, a hot new area in the security field. "That's certainly an area where we're going to be investing, " Palmer said.
81470
Cisco Systems, the world's biggest maker of computer networking equipment, on Tuesday completed a $3.2 billion purchase of WebEx Communications to gain videoconferencing software.
338900
Blog: Men's-oriented video site introduces IP Intelligence technology to target videos, ads, etc.
652348
SAN MATEO, Calif. -- The promise of Internet-based video has long been hamstrung by copyright and piracy worries, slow dial-up connections, technical challenges, and consumer disdain for watching blotchy videos on their home computers.
101221
Blog: A rundown on the "San Francisco-Style Video Innovation" panel at the Web Video Summit.
535731
Cisco Systems Inc. , the biggest maker of network gear for directing Internet traffic, on Monday said it will introduce a new line of low-end routers in the coming weeks aimed at winning more corporate business.
487509
NEW YORK - Cisco Systems is aggressively trying to build its presence in key growth markets, and it&#39;s using both new products and new acquisitions to do it.
680188
Avaya (Quote, Chart), a communications software, systems and services company, has announced a new Internet Protocol-based video-conferencing offering for businesses.
106379
Brunel University in London is using an early version of a new suite of Cisco digital media tools to upgrade virtual learning courses. It also plans to use the tools for videoconferencing and virtual lectures.