Cisco Hosting "Effective Strategies to Help Ensure Your WLAN Is Voice Ready" Online Seminar
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Who:  Ben Gibson, director of Enterprise Mobility Solutions and a Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enterprise technology partner.
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Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced the Cisco File Engine Series, a line of appliance-based solutions utilizing WAFS (wide area file services) technology designed for branch office consolidation. Â
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Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and its outdoor wireless network solutions will constitute the wireless access network of choice for Linux and open source enthusiasts who attend the Linux Symposium in Ottawa this week.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM and Cisco will announce today at the Spring 2007 VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Florida, a joint effort to create an industrywide unified communications and collaboration platform. The expectation is that a single open platform, rather than a potpourri of platforms offered by multiple vendors, will entice a large number of developers to design communications services for the enterprise. In the first step toward that end, IBM and Cisco have pledged to base the new platform, called UC2 (Unified Communication and Collaboration), on Eclipse and OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) technologies. In addition, both companies unveiled a series of upcoming offerings jointly developed by the two companies using an open set of APIs from Lotus's Sametime collaboration application and communication APIs from Cisco. Among the solutions planned for later this year are click-to-call and voice mail integration to allow Sametime users to send instant messages to and from Cisco Unified IP phones. Another jointly developed offering will include federated presence information, call history conferencing, and video telephony. The federated presence solution will take information stored in Cisco's IP network, such as availability and location, and share that information with a Sametime client. "If you are looking at a Sametime client, you can see if the phone is not busy and if the person is in, say, building 21 on the third floor," said Barry O'Sullivan, vice president of IP Communications at Cisco. According to Adam Gartenberg, offering manager for the UC2 Software division of IBM Lotus Software Group, the growth of unified communications services has been impeded by a lack of a consistent programming environment. On the other hand, the ubiquity of Eclipse will encourage the large Eclipse community of developers to design communications services that extend the client capabilities of ERP and CRM applications to remote users. "The UC2 platform is extensible, allowing developers to create plug-ins or mini applications to access applications remotely," said Gartenberg. For example, a developer might extend an expense approval application in SAP by creating an applet that makes it available in an instant messaging environment. There is also no doubt that enterprise-level companies are eager to see what unified communications can do for them. Ray Repic, chief technical architect at Coca-Cola Enterprises, says he likes the idea of leveraging his existing technology to create incremental value. Repic already uses Lotus SameTime and Cisco's IP telephony. "There's nothing we need to purchase," said Repic. In addition Repic said he is eager to get it up into Coca Cola's prototyping lab.Â  "We need to understand how we can use voice as an application," Repic said. As part of the announcement, Cisco also said that it will develop future versions of its Unified Personal Communicator on the new UC2 client platform. Also planned is a certification program to certify that the solutions developed on UC2 platform meet the specifications laid out by IBM and Cisco. However, despite the cooperation between Cisco and IBM and the stated reasons for it, analysts see Microsoft as the elephant in the room.Â  "The unified communications battle will come down to Cisco versus Microsoft," said Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala. Some users have held off on the technology because they are waiting to see what Microsoft will do with it, he said. Meanwhile, Nortel Networks, which last year announced a partnership with Microsoft in this area, hasn't ended up with much of an advantage that other telephony vendors don't have, Kerravala said.
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Here's a guide on how to get the best results out of a digital voice deployment.
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LIVE WEBCAST(Source: Network Appliance) Join us for a live remote office backup operations webcast on 3/15.  Dave Russell, VP of Research at Gartner, and Duncan Moore, director of Data Protection and Recovery at NetApp, will discuss key considerations to protect growing remote office data while maintaining user productivity and efficiencies.
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"Vell...Cisco's just zis guy, y'know?" WLAN analysis outfit AirMagnet has brought out software designed to work with Cisco's Unified Wireless Network. AirMagnet already has a version of the tool, which is called Enterprise Analyzer, for Aruba's Mobile Edge Architecture.â¦
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Cisco will introduce next year its Entertainment Operating System (EOS), a platform for delivering multimedia content to online communities.EOS will be the first major product of&#160;Cisco&#39;s push into helping media companies connect with their customers. It will combine a delivery system, a social networking platform, and a set of tools to help consumers find the content they want, said Dan Scheinman, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco&#39;s media solutions group. It will go on sale in 2008, he said.Two online fan communities, run by the National Hockey League and the NASCAR auto-racing organization, are using elements of EOS today, Scheinman said. NHL Connect, launched last year and uses technology from&#160;social networking company Five Across, which Cisco acquired&#160;in February.Content providers like the sports leagues have large and loyal fan bases but don&#39;t know how to enrich the fan experience or get them to spend more time on their sites, he said. EOS will be a standardized solution for doing that.Making online communities stronger benefits both consumers and content providers, according to Scheinman: Fans get to know each other and providers learn more about their visitors. On top of that, more visits can mean more revenue. Sites such as the NHL&#39;s and NASCAR&#39;s have found that providing legitimate video content leads to more user-generated content as visitors comment on the videos. As they do, visits go up by three to five times, which means three to five times as many opportunities to advertise to the community, he said.EOS will help visitors find content through a recommendation and relevance engine that looks at a user&#39;s activity patterns and makes personalized suggestions, Scheinman said.The growing flood of information available online begs for this type of approach because users often don&#39;t even know what they&#39;re looking for, he said.&quot;Finding anything in this world of infinite information out there is really going to be tricky,&quot; Scheinman said. &quot;You want to be able to have content find you.&quot;Cisco&#39;s network expertise and&#160;recent social-networking acquisitions uniquely equip it to solve this set of problems, he said.&quot;We&#39;ve become the only company that can do all of these three things together,&quot; Scheinman said.
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WLAN switch market consolidation begins
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Wireless network analysis tools vendor AirMagnet Inc will today announce a PC and laptop tool for analyzing Cisco WiFi networks that will enable admins to access a Wireless Controller remotely, turn a remote AP into a sensor, and carry out analysis anywhere on a corporate network.
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As part of our ongoing technology education webcast series, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) will host a webcast with a corresponding slide presentation on Tuesday June 12 at 1:30PM Pacific to discuss Scientific Atlanta's service provider strategy.
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Paul Jones has posted a very quick note about one of his presentations today:   The slides from my php|works talk are now available as a PDF file. I'm going to try to create an audio version after I get back from the conference.   You can see a summary of Paul's talk (and a list of the others being given) over on the php|architect site.
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Matthew O'Phinney had the chance to present the Zend Framework during a meeting he attended of his local PHP user group (BostonPHP) as a part of a series their doing.   Horde was also represented as part of the evening's fare. It was the first time I've attended a UG, so I got the double whammy of that and being a presenter. Oh, make it a triple whammy -- Boston is a 3+ hour drive from the Burlington, VT area I now call home.   He mentions a talk that Chuck Hagenbuch (of the Horde project) gave on the current state of the project and a bit about his presentation (including some portions that pointed out problems with the Zend_Db component). You can check out this and the rest of the contents of his presentation here [pdf] and here [mp3 podcast].
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Cisco&#39;s Tokyo R&amp;D center will focus on advanced Internet technologies such as IPv6, multicast, and wireless, in addition to improving existing security and quality-of-service (QoS) technologies.
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Starting in mid-October AT&amp;T, in partnership with industry-leader Linksys (a division of Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart)), will begin offering Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to home users across the country.
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MacCentral - With its eyes on the future of home entertainment and a relatively uncluttered band of radio spectrum, Cisco Systems Inc.'s Linksys division on Wednesday unveiled a line of IEEE 802.11g/a wireless LAN products.
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