News@Cisco: Top Stories

Cisco TelePresence Offers U.S. Military Families A New Way to Reach Their Loved Ones in Iraq

Thu, 08 May 2008 04:00:00 PST

May 8, 2008 By News@Cisco Staff Writer Lisa Alexander, a petite brunette with carefully groomed hair waited expectantly outside a special room in the Temecula, California, Wal-Mart store. Married to Dennis Alexander, a U.S. Marine corporal stationed near Fallujah, one of the most violence-prone areas in Iraq, Lisa hadn't seen her husband for many months. They had been able to speak on the phone and send emails but this would be the first time she would see him. ...

Mayo Clinic Sees Efficiency as Major Mobility Benefit

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:00:00 PST

May 7, 2008 Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hanneman There is nothing new with the use of mobile solutions in the healthcare industry. Hospitals have used it to communicate and submit information for quite some time. However, as mobile technologies evolve, hospitals and healthcare providers are seeing a bigger return on their ...

Creating Opportunities for Partially-Sighted People with Networking Academy Courses for the Blind

Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 PST

May 1, 2008 By Mike Stone The Cisco® Networking Academy® is helping disabled people around the world to reach for new job opportunities through a range of specialist projects. In Hungary, for example, where only seven percent of blind people currently have any sort of employment, a new pilot program has pioneered the teaching of the visually impaired. ...

Switching Channels: The Big Opportunity from the Big Change

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PST

April 23, 2008 By Erik Sherman The big clock is ticking away, and at zero hour on February 17, 2009, U.S. broadcasters will turn off their analog video signals, leaving only digital. It is an unprecedented market inflection for any company providing video services, and the change is already motivating consumers across America to reexamine how they watch TV.

The Dos and Don'ts of Enterprise Virtualization

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PST

April 16, 2008 By Alan Radding Virtualization has played a part in the enterprise for decades, but only recently has it taken on new urgency as organizations wrestle with information technology (IT) infrastructure sprawl, skyrocketing energy bills, cooling challenges, and data center space ...

How Television Programmers and Service Providers Can Deliver On The Promise of HD TV

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PST

April 15, 2008 By Erik Sherman The Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel know that attention to detail is the prerequisite in its business, but these days a different kind of detail is the focus. The added detail of high-definition (HD) television provides a huge opportunity for the cable channels. HD is one more reason that the Hallmark Channels need MPEG-4 video compression to enable the company to easily and cost effectively deliver "all family, all movies, all ...

Remanufacturing and Recycling Programs Are Good for Business, Good for the Environment

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PST

What happens to used information technology (IT) equipment after a customer has returned it for repairs or replaced it with newer equipment? Is it possible to keep discarded routers and switches out of the landfill? At Cisco, ...

Making the Virtual Team Real

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PST

April 02, 2008 By Esther Shein If you think collaborating on a project with a colleague in Singapore when you're in Los Angeles is a once-in-a-lifetime event, think again. Cross-border collaboration with a heterogeneous group of employees, partners, suppliers, consultants and even customers is becoming less the exception and more the rule in a global economy. Advances in communication technologies have not only created greater opportunities to reach new markets ...

Cisco Initiatives Help to Confront Poverty, Divisions and Skills Shortages in Israel

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

Think of Israel and often what comes to mind is a prosperous country with a highly-skilled workforce. But, like any country, there are also people who are disadvantaged, in both the Jewish and Arab communities, and significant skills shortages-and ...

Innovation Through Global Investment

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

March 26, 2008 By News@Cisco Staff Writer Innovation runs deep at Cisco. The company was built on it, believes in it, and employs a multifaceted strategy to incubate it. A catalyst for innovation, the Corporate Development team is renowned for its high-profile acquisitions, designed to ...

The Cisco Networking Academy NetReady Initiative Helps to Bridge IT Employment Gap in Romania

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

Romania has a lot going for it: a recent arrival to the European Union, its economy boasts high growth, while unemployment and inflation are declining. What it seems to be missing right now ...

Paul Marcoux Will Drive Cisco's Environmental Development Efforts

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Since joining Cisco in November 2007, Paul Marcoux, vice president of Green Engineering, Cisco Development Organization (CDO) Operations, says he feels "like a kid in a candy shop." "I'm so thrilled to be at Cisco," he enthuses. "Over the years, I've been able to design ...

How Bulgaria's BIG Project is Changing the Way People Think about IT in Education

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

Something BIG is happening to education in Bulgaria. Students at three of the country's schools are benefiting from a project backed by Cisco Systems, Inc, which aims to put the kinds of technologies usually seen in big business at the service of the educational sector. ...

Pioneering University Deploys Canada's First 802.11n Wireless Network

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

March 18, 2008 Business Challenge Concordia University has a reputation for being a vanguard when it comes to technology. The university prides itself on a series of "firsts," including the first in Canada to deploy Wi-Fi to students across campus and the first to deliver voiceover IP (VoIP) across that network. Given its history of innovation, it is no surprise that Concordia has now become the first university in Canada to use 802.11n technology as part of a larger ...

A Conversation with Al Gore: Mitigating Climate Change through Innovation

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

March 17, 2008 By News@Cisco Staff Tune in to a live Webcast on Wednesday, March 19, and watch a virtual discussion about technology, innovation, and environmental sustainability between Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Laureate, John Chambers, Cisco Chairman and CEO and Sue Bostrom, Cisco EVP and Chief Marketing Officer. Connecting with their worldwide audiences through Cisco TelePresence and Cisco Unified Communications technologies, the ...

Francis Baliza Goes From Cleaner to IT Administrator with Help from the Cisco Networking Academy

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

Jane Francis Baliza leads a double life. To many at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda, she is just another member of the cleaning staff that sweeps the halls before the beginning of lectures. But thanks to Makerere's Cisco®

Firm Lowers Data Center and WAN Costs : Optimizing the Data Center While Lowering Costs

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:00:00 PST

The First American Corporation : Advantage Through Virtualization and Collaboration

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:00:00 PST

BT Innovation: A $19.8 Billion Network : The World's First National All-IP Network

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:00:00 PST

Transforming Business Customer Experiences : Enabling Unique IP-Based Business Services

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:00:00 PST