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Global Technology Firm Transforms Collaboration Capabilities

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:00:00 PST

January 15, 2010 SMART Technologies develops interactive whiteboards and other collaboration tools to improve the communication capabilities of organizations around the world. In business for more than 20 years, SMART has eight global branch offices in addition to its Calgary headquarters. The company has grown rapidly in the last several years and recently found itself operating out ...

Cisco's Space Router Successfully Operates in Orbit

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:00:00 PST

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jan. 18, 2010 – Cisco announced today that its Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) technology has achieved a major milestone with the successful in-orbit test of the Cisco IOS® Software's networking capabilities and the company's on-board router. This is the first-ever deployment of an Internet Protocol (IP) router aboard a commercial GEO satellite. The ...

Cisco Puts an Internet Router in Space

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:00:00 PST

January 19, 2010 By Laurence Cruz Cisco Systems wants to put a router on every communications satellite. The networking giant has already sent the first one into space. The company announced today that the router has successfully completed initial in-orbit tests, after being launched Nov. 23 aboard the Intelsat 14 communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit, 22,300 miles above the ...

History Behind Cisco's Routers in Space

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:00:00 PST

January 19, 2010 By Laurence Cruz Cisco Systems first began evaluating satellite communications networks as candidates for an Internet protocol (IP) makeover several years ago, company executives say. The networking giant took the idea to Maryland-based Intelsat General, the world's largest operator of commercial communications satellites, executives say. Later, the companies approached ...

Swisscom Selects Cisco ASR 9000 to Prepare for the 'Zettabyte Era'

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:00:00 PST

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 12, 2010 - Cisco announced today that Swisscom is deploying the Cisco® ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router as the edge platform to support the rollout of high-bandwidth fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) services to every household in Switzerland. Swisscom announced FTTH customer trials in April 2009, offering triple-play service bundles, which allow the simultaneous use ...