Cisco is expected to make the cut as customer AT&T pares its vendor roster to cut costs. Previous reports had AT&T winnowing down its list of vendors from 150 to 40, but investment firm UBS says domestically the carrier is looking to deal with about 16 equipment suppliers. Read more
Cisco gave a thumbs up to the broadband stimulus funds and rules unveiled this week by the US government. The feds are releasing over $4 billion of the $7.2 billion total broadband funding to pay for the first round of broadband projects mandated by the economic stimulus package passed earlier this year, colleague Brad Reed reports. Read more
Cisco's latest emerging technology -- or latest $1 billion-plus opportunity -- is Smart Connected Buildings, a market which requires an information network to enable buildings and cities to increase energy efficiency. Smart Connected Buildings falls under Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities initiative, one of the 30 market adjacencies Cisco is addressing in addition to its core routing and switching infrastructure business. Read more
Former Cisco exec Mike Volpi, once considered a candidate to succeed CEO John Chambers, is out himself as a CEO. Volpi's been kicked upstairs to the chairmanship of Joost, the Web TV company that pulled the plug on its service this week. Read more
Starwood Hotels plans to equip 10 of its properties with Cisco TelePresence rooms under a deal with service provider Tata Communications. The facilities will be open by the end of 2009 in the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Sheraton on the Park in Sydney, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, The Westin Los Angeles Airport and W Chicago-City Center.
A little later, Starwood plans to expand it to properties in Brussels, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. Read more
Cisco says it will compete in the SaaS, collaboration platform and IT foundation areas of cloud computing. But it has no plans for offering IT compute as a service, company officials said during the Cisco Live Virtual conference today. Read more
On Monday, Cisco announced a new certification, the Cisco Certified Architect, which will become the rank above CCIE. Read more
An insightful piece of analysis from Morningstar, the mutual fund ranking people, on the disruptive effects of cloud computing suggests hard times ahead for hardware. Enterprises looking to pay for compute cycles on an as needed basis will require less data center infrastructure -- that's a given. Read more
Cisco says it has achieved $277 million in productivity savings by allowing employees to work from home. According to this report by colleague Denise Dubie, an internal survey conducted by Cisco found employees to be happier and thriftier when allowed to work from home. Read more
Network World bloggers Peter Sevcik and Rebecca Wetzel, consultants at application performance advisor NetForecast, are surveying WAN optimization users -- including users of Cisco's WAAS appliance -- about their WAN optimization needs, plans, and preferences. NetForecast plans to include the survey results in upcoming App Performance View blogs. Read more
Cisco this week released three "Webisodes" of people using its home networking and consumer technology to live a digital life. The 'Digital Cribs' Webisodes feature "tech-savvy trend-setters" using the Cisco products to enhance their home life. Read more
Colleague Ellen Messmer has the scoop on Cisco adding data leak prevention capabilities to its IronPort e-mail security appliances. RSA will supply its DLP scanning technology to the Cisco products, Messmer writes. Read more
Cisco was but one vendor to lose out on a network upgrade at the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE chose Juniper to outfit it with a low latency 10G Ethernet network to connect data centers in New Jersey and London. Read more
Cisco on Friday reissued a security advisory originally released to the public in December, 2005.
The advisory concerns a vulnerability that exists in the IOS HTTP server in which HTML code from output such as a show buffers command, will be passed to the browser requesting the page. This HTML code could be interpreted by the client browser to potentially execute malicious commands. There are currently no patches available to fix the problem. Recommended workarounds include disabling the WEB_EXEC service while still leaving other HTTP services active. Read more
Juniper ain't foolin' around when it says it will rely on partnerships to battle rival Cisco in hot new markets. The company this week announced an extension to its arrangement with Nokia Siemens to address integration of IP routing with DWDM optical for carrier networks, just weeks after announcing a collaboration for Carrier Ethernet. Read more
According to Canada's Globe and Mail, Avaya is set to snap up Nortel's enterprise business for $500 million. The deal would give Avaya 10 additional percentage points in revenue share in enterprise telephony, according to 1Q data from Dell'Oro Group. Read more
File this one under, current-economy-a-good-time-to-consider-alternatives. Quinnipiac University in Connecticut is replacing its Cisco network with 3Com. Read more
Nortel this week began an asset liquidation, having failed in its attempt to transform the company into a viable competitor after filing for bankruptcy earlier this year. Nortel sold its CDMA and LTE wireless business to Nokia Siemens and is shopping around its other operations, including the enterprise unit. Read more
A report late Friday (EST) by TheStreet.com has data center M&A activity stirring again, but this time an anticipated quarry is now the predator. Juniper is rumored to be on the prowl for a "data center or storage shop." Read more
The dour economy is not the reason for Cisco excluding non-local press and analysts from Cisco Live in San Francisco later this month. Rather, Cisco just decided to "take a different approach" this year and encourage virtual participation so it can showcase its TelePresence, WebEx and collaboration technologies, a company spokesman said. Read more
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