Unified Communications: Breaking News

Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform.

Skype and Nokia have released a new Skype client for the Symbian mobile OS.

Unified communications integrator, Alphawest, has become an Avaya platinum partner.

Cisco has been saying for years that mobile video data traffic content is exploding, and it now expects the amount of video traffic in 2014 to be 66% of all mobile data traffic by 2014. That prediction came in a new forecast by the networking company.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review a controversial patent issued in 2001 that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP.

Cisco’s acquisition of video-conferencing player, Tandberg, will not guarantee its partners access to the vendor’s communications product range.

Unified communications vendor, Polycom, will launch its first comprehensive partner program in Australia on July 1.

Tandberg is ready for the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) and is eager to collaborate with the NBNco.

Cisco Systems has gotten the ball rolling toward interoperability among all high-end videoconferencing platform by licensing the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) to other vendors, but the ability to plug any two systems together may be a long way off, according to vendors and analysts.

Carriers and aid workers are scrambling to rebuild communications in Haiti following the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake near the capital city of Port-au-Prince, which left many residents with no means of communicating inside or outside the country.