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Kent signs £32m outsourcing deal
News Kent County Council has struck a four-year deal with US outsourcing provider Unisys to provide a shared wide area network built on a high-speed Cisco backbone to boost public services. Schools, libraries and council offices in Kent are to be... [22 Jul 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News Today US mobile IP company Qualcomm has announced it is making an undisclosed investment in femtocell maker ip.access - joining the likes of Cisco, Intel Capital and Motorola Ventures. Industry-wide collaboration is vital to femtocells succeeding... [21 May 2008]
BT wins £62m outsourcing deal from KPMG Europe
News BT will be responsible for KPMG's wide area network and local area network refresh and management, deployment of Cisco IP telephony, integration with an existing Microsoft Office Communications Server platform, video and audio conferencing. [31 Mar 2008]
Will digital switchover boost wireless broadband?
News Cisco has issued a plea for wireless broadband services to win out in the so-called "digital switchover". Denying UK citizens this usage of the spectrum, claimed two Cisco executives, would be wasteful. [19 Oct 2007]
Wireless networking kit sales on the up
News Cisco is still the leading vendor for WLAN gear, followed by Symbol, Aruba, 3Com and Trapeze, the analyst said. Sales of wireless LAN (WLAN) equipment are rising steadily as enterprises roll out campus-wide networks with business-class gear for... [02 Jun 2006]
Salford Uni bets 20 years on NTL voice and data
News While the university, which has around 18,000 students and 2,000 staff across several campuses, has a mix of telecoms equipment at the moment it is standardising on Cisco Avvid IP telephony kit over the next four years. [25 Nov 2005]
Cisco says hi to citywide Wi-Fi
News Cisco is already the dominant supplier of wireless local-area networking equipment in the home market - through its Linksys product line - and in the enterprise market as well. Cisco will throw its hat into the municipal Wi-Fi ring on Tuesday when... [16 Nov 2005]
Companies splash out millions on IP networks
News Under the contract, BT will provide the network - which is based on Cisco technology - for EWS' 5,200 staff, supporting applications such as video telephony, voice recording and unified messaging. A managed wide area network will connect the five... [25 Aug 2005]
Juniper spends $469m on two acquisitions
News This latest acquisition will help Juniper play more aggressively in the enterprise market, where its rival Cisco Systems has dominated. The company will acquire Peribit Networks, which makes technology that optimises wide-area network connections... [27 Apr 2005]
Kent builds £24m broadband network for schools
News The network uses services and technology from BT, Cisco and Microsoft, with Unisys providing managed services and security in a £3.7m deal. The fibre-optic wide-area network with 40 hubs will support more than 500 primary schools with around 260... [04 Apr 2005]
Cisco gives router family a VoIP facelift
News Cisco's new 1800, 2800 and 3800 wide area network access routers feature embedded security tools and support voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), said Mike Volpi, senior vice president and general manager for Cisco's routing technology group. [14 Sep 2004]
Cisco buys data management start-up for $82m
News Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $82m in cash to acquire Actona Technologies, a small start-up that manages data across geographically separate offices. Actona's technology will enhance that offering by expanding the functions of Cisco's branch... [30 Jun 2004]
How to spend your IT budget
News The "Cisco premium" for enterprise network equipment is now rising to the point where companies should start to look at best of breed buying to get savings of 20 per cent, the analyst house said. Companies investing in new wide area networks are... [06 Nov 2003]
Police force announces surveillance overhaul
News Mitel Networks and Pinacl Solutions have integrated Staffordshire’s current Siemens iSDX voice switches and added Cisco Layer 3 data switches that allow it prioritise applications over the WAN. The new 100 megabit core voice over IP (VoIP) network... [20 May 2003]
John Chambers: president and CEO Cisco
News When Cisco products couldn't compete with the opposition, Chambers just bought them out. He Joined Cisco in 1991 as senior VP worldwide sales operations and was named CEO in Nov 1994 Chambers has guided his essentially one-product company from Lan... [06 Feb 2001]
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