Most of the costs companies incur by letting employees choose their own devices are not associated with the devices themselves. Companies are spending much more supporting and securing the devices, according to Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group. The global consulting group recently surveyed 600...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Puerto Rico now has a second LTE player as Open Mobile launched LTE commercial services this week following U.S.-based AT&T, which unveiled LTE last November as part of a national roll out. The unincorporated U.S. territory in the northeastern Caribbean is seen as a pioneer in launching LTE...
When it comes to bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, chief information officers (CIOs) tend to become resistant, mostly because of management and security issues. BYOD is a trend which sooner or later will catch up with many companies, so IT managers must become more open to...
Brazil represents a key global priority and growth opportunity for Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO). In recent years, the country’s Cisco subsidiary has been growing consistently, more than 20% each fiscal year. This could be enough to justify the company's new investments of more than $546.6...
Taiwan's HTC, currently number five in worldwide smartphone shipments, wants to differentiate itself by working with the companies who deliver the content users want most on their smart devices. After investing in Beats Audio last year, HTC yesterday said it would take a 20%...
Following the mobile and cloud trends in corporate applications, the Brazilian Sonda IT, owned by the Chilean Sonda, set its portfolio to meet companies’ need for “as a service” offers tied to mobility and cloud computing.
Generally speaking, Sonda IT has packaged software, service and...
Cisco is using its expertise in networks and the software that runs them to help companies manage and unify their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. The holistic approach is based on Cisco Borderless Network architecture. “The challenges that companies face are great,” Cisco's Inbar Lasser-Raab told RCR...
Cisco Systems says its $5 billion acquisition of NDS Group will position it to help service providers profit from video. The networking giant says service providers need to be ready to offer customers traditional TV shows, online content, social media and video apps...
Cisco Systems announced its intent to acquire NDS Group for approximately $5 billion. NDS provides video software and content security solutions designed to enable service providers and media companies to deliver and monetize video entertainment.
The acquisition is expected to close during the second half...
Spain's Telefónica announced the launch of a regional cloud hosting service targeting the Latin American corporate segment, including large companies and government.
Named "Virtual Hosting 2.0," the offering is supported by VCE’s VBlock infrastructure and will be provided through five interconnected data centers across...
With mobile video projected to be 71% of all mobile data traffic by 2016, coverage is an ever-increasing challenge, said Cisco’s Murali Nemani in an interview with RCR Wireless News ahead of Mobile World Congress. “Cisco is using licensed and unlicensed spectrum to complement...
While worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month by 2016, in Brazil the rate is slightly higher with Cisco Systems predicting an 19-fold increase between 2011 and 2016. That will result in...
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Cisco released new estimates today regarding the size and speed of mobile data in 2016; the five year forecast is dramatic and points to a different mobile experience for users all around the world.
It's of course...
Perhaps looking to counter claims that it is unfairly limiting download speeds to consumers, AT&T today came out with a new blog post noting that wireless data traffic across its network doubled last year, continuing a trend the carrier has seen since the launch...
Global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, which means a 66% compound annual growth rate, according to Cisco's Global Cloud Index (2010 – 2015) report.
In conjunction with the report, Cisco also...
Although contact center solutions represent the biggest part of Avaya’s revenues, the company aims to be recognized beyond that business, as an important player of the multibillion-dollar enterprise market for communication tools.
Millions of Microsoft customers may soon be able to use their smartphones for virtual meetings, collaborating remotely via telepresence. Polycom is making its telepresence solution part of Microsoft's Lync unified communication platform, extending a partnership that is already a key part of Polycom's business.
Shares of networking equipment bellwether Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) are higher today after the company surpassed Wall Street's forecasts for its fiscal first quarter. The better-than-expected report was a welcome bright spot in what has been a somewhat lackluster earnings season for the IP network...
Cisco hopes the answer is yes. Just a few days ahead of its much-anticipated earnings report, Cisco wooed developers Friday at Appcelerate, day three of the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco.
Cisco launched AppHQ a few months ago as a white-label app store...
Latin American telecoms are gearing up to upgrade their infrastructure to support IPv6 as the supply of IPv4 addresses nears its end. For instance, mobile operator TIM has spent $740,000 on its networks in Brazil to prepare for the migration to the newer protocol.
Qwilt has raised $24 million in two rounds from some of the same investors who funded Netflix -- investors who understand the demands that video delivery puts on carriers, and see the opportunity for Qwilt to help solve that problem. "So much of the...
JAPAN, TOKYO, August 30, 2011 – Cisco announced today that NTT Communications Corporation (head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Akira Arima; NTT Com) has deployed the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution1 for its cloud-based Unified Communication Service "UCaaS (Unified Communication as a Service) Plan"....
Samsung Telecommunications America has lined up Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), AT&T Inc. (T) and T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) for the Galaxy S II smartphone. Each carrier will offer the device on their respective 4G networks.The Galaxy S II is already available in Europe and...
