How is it possible a company like shoretel we see,??
as a global player ,, there solotion is only a marketing story . free upgrade for SIP intergration whit Exchange ..in my mind this was a basic feature .
so think twice before you buy @
VoIP / Convergence
Google Voice to storm the enterprise in 2010
Google exec says an enterprise Voice product is coming as part of Google Apps.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Tue, 02/09/10 - 9:55pm.
Google is planning on releasing an enterprise version of Google Voice in 2010, said Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard in an interview earlier this week in eWeek. Voice will be bundled with Google Apps. Read more
Shoretel
By M.Stone ( Uk ) on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 4:53pm
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61 CCIEs dropped out of Cisco's highly coveted cert program over the last 30 days
For the 3rd month in row, the worldwide CCIE R&S count dropped.
Submitted by Brad Reese on Tue, 02/09/10 - 7:43am.
According to Dual CCIE #18532 R&S/Security - George Morton:
"Over the last 30 days we have seen CCIEs drop their highly coveted certifications at a much greater rate than net new CCIEs.
"61 CCIEs dropped out of Cisco's prestigious certification program during the month of January 2010 alone.
"For further clarification, let's do the math together: Read more
Sprint/Tango Announcement
By MFJUMBO on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 9:47pm
Actually, Sprint's Mobile Integration service formerly supported only Avaya and Cisco, but the addition of Tango's solution will allow them to offer the service on all PBX systems.
See: http://nojitter.com/blog/archives/2010/02/sprint_and_tang.html
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Cisco IP phones praised in email to then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and First Dude, Todd Palin
Finally, the House will have decent phones instead of ones that are one step above the rotary dial!
Submitted by Brad Reese on Sun, 02/07/10 - 3:04am.
In collaboration with MSNBC.com, Crivella West Incorporated - a knowledge discovery company, digitized, analyzed and arranged this e-mail collection of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, First Dude Todd Palin and 7 members of Palin's staff.
In the following internal email dated May 7, 2007 addressed to then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (email address: govpalin@gov.state.ak.us) and First Dude Todd Palin (email address: fek9wnr@yahoo.com), Erika Fagerstrom - Executive Residence Manager & Assistant to the First Gentleman Alaska Governor's House, praised the installation of new Cisco IP Phones in the Alaska Governor's Mansion: Read more
Cisco's F2Q10 accounts receivable soar $1.34 billion year over year!
Year over year (YOY), Cisco's accounts receivable soared by $1.344 billion, an increase that was a whopping $618 million more than Cisco's net sales increased, which was just a mere $726 million.
Submitted by Brad Reese on Thu, 02/04/10 - 7:40am.
Source: Cisco Systems
It's my personal opinion, that it's always a "Red Flag" when a company's accounts receivable increases year over year (YOY) at a higher dollar amount than the (YOY) increase in a company's net sales.
So that's why when Cisco reported a F2Q10 accounts receivable (YOY) increase ($1.344 billion) that was a whopping $618 million more than Cisco's (YOY) net sales increase ($726 million), alarm bells began ringing in my mind.
7 Year Comparison of Cisco's 2nd Quarter Financial Numbers (In Millions)
| Cisco 2nd Qtr for the Year | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 |
| Net Sales Increase or (Decrease) |
$726 | (-$742) | $1,392 | $1,811 | $566 | $664 | $685 |
| Accounts Receivable Increase or (Decrease) |
$1,344 | (-$1,272) | $1,257 | $371 | $259 | $238 | $933 |
| Days sales outstanding in accounts receivable (DSO) |
39 | 29 | 39 | 31 | 35 | 34 | 34 |
Source: United States Securities and Exchange Commission
During Cisco's F2Q10 earnings conference call, Cisco CFO Frank Calderoni discussed Cisco's accounts receivable numbers: Read more
Cutting Cable
By Anonymous on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 11:02am
All of these things require an internet connection. Unless you can afford the high end cell phone service or you live in an area with a lot of competition, the sad truth is, only the cable company has the bandwidth you need to do those things. For better or worse, you come out cheaper getting their wireline phone service and basic cable on one TV as part of the deal.
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7 Apple iTablet/iSlate/iPad Rumors That Will Live Or Die
There's been more build up to Apple's iSlate announcement than most Super Bowls.
Submitted by Mitchell Ashley on Wed, 01/27/10 - 9:55am.
Wow, there's nearly as much interest in today's Apple iTablet/iSlate/iPad announcement as there was back with the original Macintosh. The amount of rumors and wild speculation, including product mockups and videos... it's simply amazing. All of this drama is leading up to some hefty expectations for Apple's iSlate. Today's announcement should affirm or kill off most of those rumors. So, let's take a look at 7 important Apple iSlate rumors that will likely live or die before the end of the day.
Apple iSlate/iPad will run the iPhone OS Read more
Avaya Roadmap
By Kathy Ashmore on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 5:00pm
Thought you would like to see this article.
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hmmm
By Anonymous on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 3:34pm
The Napster brand continues to live on in some form even after the RIAA put a steak through the original business's heart. That doesn't mean any of Napster's original users care. They moved on. Most of the telecom and networking world has similarly moved on from Nortel. There's not much reason to even contemplate the brand's fate.
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I could have done it
By Anonymous on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:00pm
So I guess Mike's compensation was based of the fact that NORTEL went bankrupt but held some value for a fire sale whereas any Joe out of the street would have not. I think I get it,,maybe.
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10Gbps Routing + Security for under $5k, and it's not from Cisco or Juniper
Vyatta is putting the pressure on large vendors, when will customer give them a chance?
Submitted by Larry Chaffin on Sun, 01/17/10 - 10:19am.
Vyatta has been out for some time and has been doing a good job at providing open source routing and switching to the masses. They have been besting Cisco in the branch/data center space with a better product and price, now they have brought that to the enterprise and service provider space with the release of the 3500 Series Router/Firewall.
In this blog we are going to take a look at a comparison between Cisco and Vyatta on price and technical specifications, then ask why are companies not saving money with Vyatta?
The Vyatta 3500 Series Router and Firewall: Read more
compliance
By BenjaminWright on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 9:11pm
Telemedicine raises novel legal and regulatory issues. Practitioners will be wise to talk openly about these issues by way of full disclosure on the web. Detailed analysis: http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/06/transparency-meets-it-compliance.html --Ben
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Cisco appears to have missed the newest market transition: Don't be evil
U.S. Rep Chris Smith, "Cisco, and Microsoft, have compromised both the integrity of their product and their duties as responsible corporate citizens."
Submitted by Brad Reese on Fri, 01/15/10 - 8:15pm.
Earlier this week Cisco announced it would further embrace China, then the very next day, heroically and gallantly in my opinion, Google announced it would fight cyber attacks that originated in China by potentially closing its operations there, while also refusing in the future to censor its search results that had long been mandated by China.
Finally today in Forbes, Cisco (the largest information security vendor to corporate enterprises in the U.S.), made a comment that appears to address Google's battle with China:
"We are closely following recent industry discussions regarding censorship in China. But as Cisco is not a service or content provider and doesn't participate in the censorship of information by any government, we cannot comment regarding the specific cases of any of our industry peers."
Cisco's statement above is curious based on this transcript - page 2 (page 8 of the PDF) from a U.S. Congressional Hearing held on February 15, 2006: Read more
Cisco Unity Support for Exchange 2010
Better late than never
Submitted by Alex Lewis on Thu, 01/14/10 - 4:02pm.
Thanks to ASPOC (A single point of contact) for breaking this news. Apparently it originally came from MS MVP Dustin Smith.
No Need For Vonage World Mobile
By DialMate on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 2:04am
If one is already subscribed to Vonage World, it can easily be extended to any cell phone (regular and smart phones) without subscribing to Vonage Mobile or Vonage World Mobile, thus saving $14.99 per month. Cellular minutes are not used if one’s cell phone carrier is AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile (free unlimited calls to and from favorite numbers) or Sprint/Nextel (free incoming calls). Just install a Call Bridge/Call Back switch on the Vonage World line and place unlimited air time and long distance calls to 60 countries and even share with family, friends, associates, etc. Read more
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SkypeTV
By Anonymous on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 9:01am
it will be very interesting to see where this goes!
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Cisco CCIE R&S count plummets -110
The carnage among the worldwide count of Cisco's much sought-after, highly coveted and extremely prestigious CCIE R&S experts has accelerated for the second month in a row.
Submitted by Brad Reese on Mon, 01/11/10 - 9:33pm.
Last month, Dual CCIE #18532 R&S/Security - George Morton seemed flabbergasted to report that Cisco's CCIE R&S count had fallen by -48 for the first time since 2000. Amazingly, Morton is now reporting that the carnage among the worldwide CCIE R&S count has accelerated even further this month by plummeting an astonishing -62, bringing the total loss among the worlwide CCIE R&S count to -110, and all of this in only a short two month time span that additionally according to Morton:
"The new news is that the total number of R&S CCIEs declined over the last month by -62.
"That's big.
"Especially when you consider that the most popular CCIE track is R&S, candidates still passed the R&S Lab over the last 30 days, however, the older CCIEs just aren't recertifying. By not recertifying, those older R&S CCIEs are being dropped from the active rolls and that speaks more about the state of the Cisco VAR program than it does to the state of the CCIE universe.
"All Cisco Gold and Silver Partners need CCIEs and those CCIEs must be active CCIEs in good standing with Cisco, (meaning they've passed the Written Test + passed the Lab Exam + they must pass the Written Test every two years to recertify). Because the count's going down, I suspect we're seeing more CCIEs retire from Cisco and the VAR channel or they're just not doing work where having an active CCIE number is important. The end result is fewer CCIEs supporting new Cisco equipment sales (view CCIEs are bringing home the bacon for Cisco) and instead CCIEs will now support the currently installed Cisco equipment base.
"The rest of the news is the same, Asia is in decline, Security CCIEs continue to remain flat to down, and Service Provider is the future number #2 in total certifications. I still want to know what's going on in Egypt, because every report now has Egypt ranked in the top ten count for new CCIEs." Read more
Staying a Cisco Channel Partner is a tough choice.
If Cisco is losing market share and has constant turn over, it makes me wonder
Submitted by Larry Chaffin on Sun, 01/10/10 - 11:41am.
Over the last six months I have been wondering what I should do as a company with our Cisco partnership. To be honest, Cisco is not the easiest company to work with as a partner and that bothers me. I have sent a few emails to people at Cisco and two executives with no reply back other than an SMB Account Manager. Read more
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