IBM and Cisco send Global alliance worldwide
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The World Series of networking services IBM and Cisco are expanding their Global Services Alliance, er globally.â¦
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has established a new global organization to push the company's Power processor platform, with an emphasis on establishing a foothold in the potentially lucrative Chinese I.T. market.
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Fujitsu Limited and Cisco Systems announced a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches for the Japanese markets. Specifically, the companies agreed to jointly develop high-end routers and will collaborate
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Cisco Systems, the world&#39;s largest maker of equipment for directing Internet traffic says China is well on the way to becoming the world&#39;s technology hub.
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Industry associations from both countries have signed a pact to collaborate on semiconductor technology.
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(InfoWorld) - John Chambers, Cisco Systems' president and chief executive officer, would partner with Chinese rival Huawei TechnologiesÂ if the opportunity ever arose. "I would love to partner with Huawei," Chambers told reporters during a news conference at the Telecom World 2006 conference and exhibition organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Hong Kong. "That may or may not happen in the future," he said. Huawei is based in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, and has built a growing business on sales of telecommunications and networking gear. In addition to providing equipment to operators in China and in developing nations, Huawei has won significant deals from operators in Europe. In 2005, the company signed contracts worth $8.2 billion, of which 58 percent came from outside China. Relations between Cisco and Huawei have not always been warm. In 2003,Â Cisco sued HuaweiÂ for allegedly copying its IOS software. Cisco dropped that suit in 2004 after Huawei agreed to make changes to its software source code and user manuals. In recent years, Huawei has entered into several partnerships with multinational networking and telecommunication vendors, but these deals have not generally lasted very long. For example, a partnershipÂ agreement between Huawei and Nortel NetworksÂ announced in February never even got off the ground. Within four months, the two companies abandoned their plans to jointly develop broadband products. AÂ joint venture between Huawei and 3ComÂ also did not last. Established in 2003, Huawei-3Com Co. paired Huawei's enterprise networking unit with 3Com's financial backing. Under a deal announced last month, 3Com plans to buy out Huawei's remaining stake in the company, which sold 2 million routers and switches last year and employs about 5,000. Chambers said Cisco has a partnership in several areas with ZTE, another Chinese telecommunication equipment vendor that has looked to expand beyond its home market into new markets overseas. Telecom World runs through Friday. Â ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has reached an agreement with  the U.S.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM and Cisco Systems have "soft launched" an IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) with HD, video on demand, and other capabilities at a demonstration center at the IBM Industrial Solutions Center in La Gaude, outside Nice, France. The demo facility, aimed at telecommunications and cable TV operators and other network operators, such as municipal fiber networks and power utilities, was opened Monday, ahead of Cisco's European-wide networkers event in Cannes. Olli Patja, an IBM Finland executive, described the modular IPTV offering during an unscheduled presentation at an all-day event for IBM and Cisco customers from the Nordic region and Baltic States. The package from IBM and Cisco will consist of six modules: the "head end" feeding digital TV and HDTV satellite signals into the network supplied by Cisco subsidiary Scientific-Atlanta; "conditional access" provided by Verimatrix and IBM; video on demand by Kasenna and IBM; the "core network" by Cisco; the "metro" (citywide or district-wide) network by Cisco, and the access or "last mile" DSL or fiber to the home from Cisco. The IPTV package will be officially launched in March, so IBM and Cisco officials were reluctant to be quoted by name regarding details. However, Henning Glegg-Sorensen, manager of IBM's Nordic Network Services said it would be fair to describe the opening of the demo facility as comparable to the distribution of beta software to testers and selected customers. The IPTV package, which can be integrated piecemeal with some existing cable and IPTV services, is aimed as an end-to-end product at operators who are upgrading or switching their networks to IP-based platforms. "This can be a major revenue source resulting from such an upgrade if you can deliver HDTV to households who are buying ever-cheaper flat TVs that are HD ready and capable," said one IBM executive. The demo center, when fully functional, will show how the package works during normal operations and under various sets of extraordinary conditions of concern to potential customers, such as fiber breaks, network congestion, and various critical equipment and software failures. IBM and Cisco representatives said reliability will be a key selling point as a study in Norway showed that breaks in cable TV broadcasts generated heavy complaint traffic to call centers much faster than electric power failures or interruptions of Internet service. The IPTV package to be presented in March is not the first time IBM has been involved in IPTV in Europe. In 2005, local IBM officials in Latvia together with Ericsson presented an IPTV offering at about the time the incumbent national telco Lattelecom was examining IPTV. Lattelecom later launched its own service based on Microsoft software and a high-speed ADSL2+ network.
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NEW DELHI -- Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. will set up a center in India to support all aspects of its worldwide operations, the company's chief executive said Wednesday.
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PeopleSoft Inc. and IBM announced recently that they will establish the most significant enterprise applications alliance in the history of the two companies.
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Fujitsu Limited and Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced that they have reached a fundamental agreement to enter into a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will enable service providers
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco's highly publicized cooperation with Microsoft on unified communications will focus on sharing presence information as well as on voice mail, Web conferencing, and other areas, a Cisco executive said Tuesday. Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pledged last month to make their companies' technologies work together even as they compete in areas like voice call control. Details of the effort have been scarce, and some critics have called the Webcast promise a mere show of peace between two companies struggling over the lucrative communications and collaboration business. Unified communications is a buzzword for combining all forms of IP communications, making them accessible on a single client or from within applications. Because voice calls, text messaging, videoconferences, and online collaboration can all be controlled by software now, Microsoft is pitted against Cisco and longtime telecommunications vendors in the battle for this market. Rick McConnell, Cisco's executive sponsor of the partnership in the unified communications area, outlined one key objective of the effort in a meeting with reporters on Tuesday. Currently, Cisco federates all the presence and availability information from its unified communications systems and publishes that data to Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS), which can then push it to Microsoft clients. Microsoft doesn't reciprocate. The companies are working on making the same kinds of information go from Microsoft's software into Cisco's, said McConnell, who is vice president and general manager of Cisco's Unified Communications Business Unit. The way it is now, if an enterprise uses Cisco's Unified Communications Manager call control software and an employee picks up the phone, a colleague's Microsoft Office Communicator messaging client will show that employee as being on the phone. But if an employee indicated in Office Communicator that she was away from her desk, that information wouldn't show up on a colleague's Cisco IP phone. Making federated presence work both ways will make that possible, McConnell said. Cries for cooperation are rampant among Cisco's customers, according to McConnell. "I'm on the phone with at least one customer per day ... that's asking us about our Microsoft integration roadmap," McConnell said. Cisco's network domination and Microsoft's software role make that inevitable. "We're going to interoperate, frankly, in almost every account that we participate in," he said. "We have a deep interoperability roadmap, we'll deliver against that roadmap, and then the customer gets to pick," McConnell said. Most customers so far have chosen Microsoft for client software and Cisco for call control processing and multimedia conferencing, and he expects that to continue. Senior Cisco and Microsoft leaders in unified communications meet at least quarterly and typically more often, he said. But McConnell didn't mince words when discussing Microsoft as a competitor. The software giant has taken limited steps to share users' presence and availability information because doing so would let users adopt any kind of unified communications client, and Microsoft wants to own all the clients, he said. And Microsoft's forays into call management are weak compared with Cisco's more seasoned offerings, he said. "I think it's going to be some time before Microsoft really gets call control right," McConnell said.
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Silicon Valley Metro Connect, a collaboration among Azulstar Networks, Cisco Systems, IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Seakay, has been selected to build and operate Silicon Valley's regional wireless network that will serve 2.4 million people.
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(InfoWorld) - IBMÂ is making another move to strengthen ties with global IT startups and their venture capital backers, providing special access to the technical experts and products housed in IBM Innovation Centers. The vendor is due to make the announcement Thursday at its Venture Capital Symposium at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. The symposium brings together venture capitalists (VCs), the startups they fund, and IBM staff. IBM runs 32 Innovation Centers worldwide, offering training, testing and support facilities for the company's partners and customers in relation to IBM hardware, software and services. The vendor has eight centers in the Americas, 18 in Europe and the Middle East, and six in Asia-Pacific, with the most recent opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. IBM plans to open its thirty-third Innovation Center in Dublin, Ireland, next week, according to Drew Clark, director of strategy for IBM's Venture Capital Group. The company will also open its European Venture Capital Center at the same time on the same site as the Dublin Innovation Center, he said. VC-backed startups gave IBM feedback that they wanted more access to the company's technologies, Clark said. The idea is to give the startups free access on the product side to emerging technologies such as IBM's blade servers and its Cell processor and to offer the companies ways to develop and test their software against IT set-ups that may not exist within their own regions. All the centers are linked via grid software so that once a developer's software has been uploaded to the IBM system in one location, it's easy to distribute to other centers. IBM can give startups free advice on how best to approach markets outside their home countries, for instance, how a company in China can sell its offerings in the U.S., Clark said. Startups also can talk to IBM's technical architects either face-to-face in the centers or remotely from their phones or computers to take advantage of their specific areas of expertise. What IBM gets out of theÂ tighter relationship with VC-backed startupsÂ is access to developing companies. "It's the sweet spot for IBM," Clark said. "It's early enough that we can have some influence over companies." IBM can encourage the startups to join its partner programs and to use more of its hardware, software and services. Another interesting benefit to IBM is seeing how different geographies adopt newer technologies. For instance, in China, the platform of choice to use Web 2.0 software like social networking, blogs and wikis is a mobile handset, not a PC running a Web browser as is the case in the U.S. "We can spot trends and understand very early on what the software's doing," Clark said. The early insight helps IBM get a better handle on which technologies it needs to make available to users in the future. "It's a very nice virtuous cycle," he added.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Cisco Systems and Fujitsu will partner to develop high-end routers and switches for use in advanced IP networks. Initally, Fujitsu will offer co-branded products running Cisco&#39;s IOS-XR operating
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BEIJING -- John Chambers, the chief executive officer (CEO) and president of Cisco Systems Inc., doesn't care when economists think China is going to become the world's largest economy. He's just thinking about what needs to be done for Cisco to tap into that market.
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InfoWorld - IBM and Cisco Systems plan to release a jointly developed product in July as part of an expansion of their existing alliance around telecommunications network management and service assurance, the companies said Thursday.