Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) updated its ASR 9000 Series aggregation service routers that the company says can pay for themselves in the first year. The routers are designed to operate as one network, capable of addressing the growing opportunities in video, mobility and the...
Polycom Inc. (PLCM) announced it will acquire Hewlett Packard Co.'s (HPQ) Halo video conferencing company for $89 million in cash.
The deal includes HP's products, contracts and employees, but leaves speculation on what will happen to HP's team that developed the Halo technology in Corvallis,...
Polycom Inc. (PLCM) announced it will acquire Hewlett Packard Co.'s (HPQ) Halo video conferencing company for $89 million in cash.
The deal includes HP's products, contracts and employees, but leaves speculation on what will happen to HP's team that developed the Halo technology in Corvallis,...
OP-ED: The Greater Austin area, stretching from Round Rock to San Marcos, is a small market when it comes to big companies headquartered here. You can count the number of Fortune 500 members with two hands – and that’s using just your hands, not...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.It was with great fanfare that Cisco Systems Inc. announced on Mar. 19, 2009, the...
Cisco | May 25, 2011 | Press Release
Peru Reaches a Penetration Rate of 3.47 Percent as Mobile Broadband Connections Continue to Rise
LIMA, Peru, May 25, 2011 – Cisco announced today the results of a new edition of the Cisco Broadband Barometer in Peru, reporting...
Eponymous video streaming website YouTube is today celebrating its sixth birthday, while mobile advertising platform AdMob is marking one year as a Google property. In separate blog posts today both the YouTube and AdMob teams shared some impressive numbers showing how the two services continue to grow.
DALLAS—“Go global, go mobile and go virtual are trends worldwide,” said Tim Harden, president of Supply Chain & Fleet Operations at AT&T Inc., during a keynote address Friday at Telecommunications Industry Association's TIA2011: Inside the Network show.The distance between intent and action has...
Cisco | May 12, 2011 | Press Release
Deployment Is Amongst the Largest Globally for Any Public Sector Bank
KOLKATA, India, May 12, 2011 - Cisco today announced that United Bank of India, one of India's leading nationalized banks, has chosen to deploy Cisco's wide area network...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: Alcatel-Lucent Fiji: With the government of Fiji to unveil its government data center which marks the completion of its e-Government phase one project acquired from Alcatel-Lucent, resulting in increased efficiency that is reducing costs and...
Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) launched a wireless LAN controller this week that allows a management system to operate as many as 500 branch office locations, 2,000 access points and 20,000 Wi-Fi clients from a single data center.The company plans to demo the controller device...
LAS VEGAS—AEG Digital Media, which produces digital media services for live video-streaming events, is using part of Cisco Systems Inc.’s Videoscape portfolio to live stream video over any device on any Internet Protocol network.AEG has produced live-streaming services for the Grammy Awards, We are...
Fujitsu | April 13, 2011 | Press Release
London, 13th April 2011 — Fujitsu, one of the world’s largest technology and communications companies, today announced plans to work in collaboration with Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco to deliver next generation internet services to 5 million homes in rural Britain.
The...
Infrastructure suppliers are going to have to adapt their business models to help shape the global telecom market, including helping to finance and drive deals with operators, according to a new report from Arthur D. Little. The research company said that despite six years...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.It is clear that consumers with mobile broadband plans have huge pent-up demand for video content. The...
John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), told staff via an internal memo that has since been published, that the consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services company needs to combat problems with “operational execution,” and that Cisco has been “slow...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Austin360 | March 25, 2011 |Â Omar L. Gallaga
We all like our mobile streaming video the way we like our smoothies, right? SMOOTH! Consistent! Perhaps with cherries.
Researchers at the University of Texas are working on a project to make video, photos and other visual data transmitted...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.With the new year comes the parade of trade shows, including the Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas...
The migration of voice services to data networks is not a new phenomenon in the world of telecommunications, but for the mobile space the move has started to gain steam as carriers continue the roll out of high-speed data networks.According to research from Juniper,...
Skorpios Technologies, an innovator in composite silicon photonic technology, announced it has entered into a strategic development agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks, expanding the business relationship between both companies. Together the companies will deliver optical networking solutions to communications customers.Neustar Inc., a provider of...
Cisco is not typically the kind of company you'd think of if anyone asked you to name a gaming firm, but the router company is nothing if not diverse, as we discovered in GDC this week.
