News

• New iPad app creates secure video conferencing, collaboration

  By John Cox | 13 April, 2012 07:32

  A new iOS app lets enterprise iPad users set up secure video conferences with others both inside and outside their organization. The app also can leverage features such as instant messaging, presence, multi-party calling, and voicemail via a range of third-party unified communications servers.

• Vidyo sets up program for virtual video network operators

  By Tim Greene | 27 March, 2012 04:45

  Vidyo is announcing a new program for service providers, enabling cloud-based video services it says could sell for $30 per month.

• Cisco offers virtualized video surveillance

  By Ellen Messmer | 21 March, 2012 23:50

  Cisco today announced a virtualized version of its Video Surveillance software for use on its Unified Computing System platform for enterprise- or government-operated video-camera deployments.

• 'Insatiable demand' for streaming video puts pressure on providers

  By Colin Neagle | 16 March, 2012 05:25

  Just as enterprise network managers brace for the flood of bandwidth-consuming content stemming from the NCAA men's basketball tournament, content delivery providers put in a significant amount of time preparing to meet the meteoric rise in demand.

• Cisco pays $5 billion for video company buy

  By Jim Duffy | 16 March, 2012 02:32

  Cisco this week said it will acquire NDS Group Ltd., a provider of video software and content security systems for service providers and media companies, for $5 billion.

• Avaya buys Radvision for $230 million

  By Brandon Butler | 16 March, 2012 01:27

  Avaya has purchased videoconferencing company Radvision for $230 million, the company announced today.

• IT stressed over cloud and video bandwidth demands

  By Brandon Butler | 14 March, 2012 03:29

  IT executives understand the value of cloud services and videoconferencing tools, but one of the chief concerns remains the strain those services put on network bandwidth, according to a study released today.

• Cisco bounces back

  By John Dix | 27 February, 2012 22:31

  Cisco has been crowing about its rebound, and with good reason. What a difference a year makes.

• Video now accounts for half of mobile data traffic

  By Brandon Butler | 24 February, 2012 05:39

  Video now accounts for half of all data transferred on mobile networks, up from 40% during the same time last year, according to ByteMobile's first quarter 2012 Mobile Analytics Report.

• HP high-def webcam makes us look better on Skype

  By Keith Shaw | 24 February, 2012 04:33

  The scoop: HD 5210 Webcam, by HP, about $100.

• Cisco: Customers drove us to block Microsoft/Skype

  By Jim Duffy | 24 February, 2012 01:29

  Cisco's appeal of the European Commission's approval of the $8.5 billion Microsoft/Skype union is customer driven, Cisco CEO John Chambers said this week.

• Australia UC services market to reach CAGR of 13.8 per cent: Analyst

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 February, 2012 09:03

  Australia UC services market to reach CAGR of 13.8 per cent: Analyst

• Cisco on Microsoft/Skype: Sour grapes?

  By Jim Duffy | 17 February, 2012 03:27

  Does Cisco have non-buyer's remorse over the Microsoft/Skype union?

• Cisco aims to blunt the power of Microsoft-Skype merger

  By Tim Greene | 17 February, 2012 01:26

  Cisco's plea to make Skype video conferencing protocols public is at least in part a defensive move to protect Cisco's dominance in video as it faces the potentially formidable blending of Skype with Microsoft's unified communication platform, Lync, experts say.

• Cisco's Umi still dead. As a doornail. Really, really dead

  By Jim Duffy | 05 January, 2012 04:28

  Cisco's Umi consumer TelePresence product really is dead - a fact the company had to reiterate to a disbelieving public this week even though it had telegraphed the move back in April.