Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 47,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as:

  • IP Communications
  • Network Security
  • Wireless LAN
  • Storage Area Networking
  • Home Networking
  • Video Systems
  • Application Networking Services

Cisco has been at the heart of many historic changes in technology, and that continues to be true today. Now, at a time when the technology industry is going through a period of dramatic change, Cisco is the market leader in multiple areas, such as routing and switching, unified communications, wireless and security. The company helped catalyze the industry's move toward IP and, now that it is fully underway, the company is at the center of fundamental changes in the way the world communicates.

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Robbie Pleasant
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Cisco, at Enterprise Connect, has introduced new innovations designed for easier collaboration at anytime, anywhere. Included in these new solutions are new Cisco Jabber...
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Finally, the marketing departments are going off the rails. Almost everybody is saying their Unified Communications and Collaboration products are "people-centric" as a...
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Robbie Pleasant
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Cisco has recently announced its intent to acquire NDS Group Ltd. at the cost of $5 billion. This massive purchase is the latest in Cisco's line of acquisitions, and its...
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Dave Michels
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the UCStrategies Experts address Cisco's challenge of the Microsoft-Skype merger in the European Union (EU). Dave...

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BCStrategies
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Interoperability and UC is a multi-faceted and increasingly complex issue. At the up-coming Enterprise Connect, I will be co-leading, with Russell Bennett, a session to...
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Blair Pleasant
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If you haven't been following the dialogue between myself and fellow analyst/blogger, Melanie Turek, on nojitter.com, here's a quick recap.
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Jim Burton
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UCStrategies founder Jim Burton moderates this Industry Buzz podcast which takes a look at the year 2011 in unified communications.

Jim is joined by UC Experts Marty Parker, Art Rosenberg,...

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Blair Pleasant
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Vishaka Radia discusses how Cisco's Customer Business Transformation group works with customers to identify use cases for collaboration that help customers succeed at meeting their business goals...

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It appears that the application development community - ISVs, SIs and independent developers - are now high on Cisco's list of growing its collaboration applications...
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Robbie Pleasant
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Cisco has recently revealed new solutions to help with collaboration in a "post-PC" era. In order to move past the limitations of PC-based communication, it's focusing...
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