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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems is taking it to the storefront, the stadium and possibly even the streets by acquiring a digital signage company. The acquisition of privately held Tivella Inc. will let the networking vendor extend its video, image and information distribution system beyond desktops, said Thomas Wyatt, director and general manager of Cisco's Digital Media Management division. Tivella, in Half Moon Bay, California, was founded in 2001 and has just 10 employees, most of whom work in Milpitas, California, near Cisco's home town of San Jose. They will join Cisco's Emerging Markets Technology Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cisco is branching out in many new directions, with a particular emphasis on video, executives said this week at the company's C-Scape analyst conference in San Jose. At the conference, President and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers demonstrated networked electronic signs using technology from Tivella, which has had a partnership with Cisco for a few years, according to Wyatt. The Cisco Digital Media System, introduced in September, lets enterprises create, schedule and publish content to desktops via the Cisco Video Portal interface. That content could include video on demand for training or live messages to employees. Through Tivella's technology, Cisco can bring that kind of content to monitors and TVs in stores and other public places, Wyatt said. The company's Piccolo Media Players are small, lightweight devices with a wide range of display interfaces for use with different kinds of screens, including analog TVs. No PC is needed and they can be powered via Ethernet, without a local electrical socket. Linked via an IP (Internet Protocol) network, they could display constantly updated messages or video tailored to the place where each is located. The new technology adds more flexibility to public video displays, which traditionally have been stand-alone, manually controlled devices, Wyatt said. For example, displays in a store could be used for employee training during off hours and for up-to-date promotions while the store is open. Networked screens, on an IP network that also included surveillance cameras and police and fire radios, could also be used for public safety, he said. For example, they could be used to direct stadium crowds to the nearest exit for evacuation. Combining the two companies' technology, Cisco will have a suite of products in the near future for remote control and management of displays over IP, Wyatt said.
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A new appliance and new software announced today by Cisco are designed to help business users improve application performance over networks.
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The head of Cisco's service provider business, who was once seen as a possible successor to the CEO, is leaving the company.
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[Johannesburg, 15 December 2004] - Fujitsu and Cisco Systems have reached a fundamental agreement to enter into a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will enable service providers and enterprises to build advanced Internet Protocol (IP
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NEW YORK - Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Sunnyvale, California, software developer P-Cube Inc. in a cash-and-options deal Cisco valued at $200 million.
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By Bobby White  At a Cisco Systems Inc. sales meeting in Las Vegas last month, new marketing chief Susan Bostrom took the stage to deliver an unorthodox message: Cisco, she said, was no longer just a company that provides network equipment.
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Tivo meets Nascar Cisco says it is cooking up something called an "entertainment operating system" from second-hand bits of social networks, TV set-top box software, and a big blast of hot air.â¦
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LONDON - The shopping spree continues at Cisco Systems Inc., which said Monday (Aug. 23) it would buy privately-held P-Cube Inc., a developer of IP service platforms.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Two days after reporting another knockout fiscal quarter, Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that Mike Volpi, the senior vice president and general manager in charge of the routing and service provider technology group, has resigned from the company.
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December 6, 2004 San Jose, CA and Tokyo, Japan -- Fujitsu Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc. have reached a fundamental agreement to enter into a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will enable
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Cisco Systems(R) (NASDAQ: CISCO) today announced that it has completed the purchase of select assets of privately-held Utah Street Networks, Inc., the operator of the social networking site Tribe.net.
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Cisco Systems Inc.  said senior executive Mike Volpi resigned on Thursday, a move that appears to clear the way for Chief Development Officer Charles Giancarlo eventually to head the network equipment maker.
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Cisco has reached an agreement to buy P-Cube, a developer of IP control software, in a deal valued at about $200 million. P-Cube&#39;s software is used by broadband service providers to monitor, control and bill for IP services.
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Cisco forged a partnership with Fujitsu wherein the Japanese company will market Cisco&#39;s CRS-1 core router to carriers and large enterprises in Japan.
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InfoWorld - Charles Giancarlo, who was seen as a likely candidate to head Cisco Systems, has resigned from the networking giant after 14 years to "pursue new professional opportunities," Cisco announced Thursday.
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Cisco Systems is shaking up its network management with the release of two new switches. Aimed at mid-sized enterprises, the switches acknowledge that there are large numbers of people who are not confident
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft and Cisco Systems played the role of proud parents on Sept. 6. But with so many questions about when NAC-NAP, as itâs been called, will be available, and how it will work with non-Windows clients and non-Cisco infrastructure, itâs been hard to figure out what the companies created. Now other companies with a dog in the NAC fight are stepping up with their own plans. Last week, it was Juniper Networks and Symantec, announcing a strategic partnership to build integrated, standards-based access control and end-point compliance solutions. The companies will integrate their end-point compliance and access control solutions, such as Juniperâs Unified Access Control and Symantecâs Sygate Enterprise Protection, to create standards-based solutions. âNAC is still immature, but itâs growing fast. Thereâs real value in collaborating in that area to drive adoption in the customer accounts we share,â said Jeremy Burton, group president of enterprise security and data management at Symantec. As opposed to Cisco and Microsoft, Juniper and Symantec will make their integration comply with the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) architecture. âWe want to make sure that what we bring to market allows customers to leverage their existing relationships,â said Hitesh Shech, vice president of security products at Juniper. The thorniest questions are about security policy definition and enforcement, which is what Symantec and Juniper focus on, Shech said. Steve Hannah, a Juniper engineer and co-chair of the TNC subgroup within the Trusted Computing Group, said architectures such as UAC, NAP, NAC, and TNC must converge. Even Microsoft is humming along to that tune. Mark Ashida, general manager of enterprise networking servers at Microsoft, said that his company has already proved NAP interoperability with other 802.1x-compliant network infrastructure providers. Microsoft will demonstrate NAC policy enforcement with gear from Enteresys, Extreme, Foundry, and Hewlett-Packard at Interop in New York this week, Ashida said. That all makes Cisco more Microsoftâs âMr. Right Now,â than âMr. Right.â