Cisco and Citrix Deliver Comprehensive Desktop Virtualization Solution

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Cisco and Citrix Systems announced they are working together to deliver a new combined desktop virtualization solution that will make it easier and more cost effective for businesses to deploy high-definition virtual desktops and applications to all users across the enterprise. The new Cisco® Desktop Virtualization Solution with Citrix XenDesktop combines Cisco unified computing and [...]

Cisco Helps Enhance Video Transmission Services

Cisco Media Gateway

Cisco announced that it is providing its Cisco® Digital Content Manager Gateway to enable JPEG 2000 video transport for Level 3 Communications’ new Vyvx® VenueNet+SM contribution network infrastructure at sports venues that are directly connected with Level 3 fiber access. VenueNet+ is an end-to-end fiber infrastructure designed to support future broadcast applications, including 3D transmission. [...]

Cisco and NetApp Unveil End-to-End FCoE Solution with VMware

Cisco NetApp VMware

As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware announced the industry’s first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware-virtual environments. This combined solution supports FCoE end-to-end to reduce the number of devices and cables needed and to drive data center consolidation, virtualization, and automation. Cisco data center switches and NetApp® [...]

Gateway Business Select Cisco for MPLS Network across Sub- Saharan Africa

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Gateway Business, a Vodacom Group company and leading supplier of African telecommunications services, has selected Cisco for its multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network in Nigeria and across sub-Saharan Africa. This deployment means that Cisco technology solutions will drive an IP next generation network (NGN) for Gateway Business, employing intelligent MPLS technologies. By utilizing Cisco technology, [...]

Cisco and Tata Communications Choreograph Dancers’ Reunion over TelePresence

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Earlier this month, Cisco TelePresenceTM equipment enabled the first virtual dance rehearsal of young dancers of the Children’s Palace in Shanghai and their counterparts from National Dance Institute (NDI) in New York. These talented children began preparations for their joint performance from opposite sides of the world using Cisco’s high-definition, video collaboration technology. Today having [...]

TalktoCanada.com Deploys Cisco WebEx Technology

Cisco TelePresence

TalktoCanada.com, a global company specializing in helping people to improve their English communications skills through online learning, has chosen Cisco WebEx Meeting Center to deliver full-service, online English language education to students anywhere in the world. TalktoCanada.com provides customized course content to meet individual needs. With increasing globalization and the huge demand for English, more [...]

Cisco, NightHawk Radiology Services to Showcase Use of Cisco Unified Computing System

Cisco Unified Computing System

Cisco will host a live Internet TV broadcast and Q&A session featuring NightHawk Radiology Services, which provides high-quality, cost-effective services to approximately1,600 healthcare sites, including 26 percent of all hospitals throughout the United States. NightHawk Radiology Services has selected the Cisco Unified Computing System® as a highly available and scalable platform for the company’s new [...]

Cisco Completes Acquisition of CoreOptics

Cisco CoreOptics

Cisco announced it has completed its acquisition of privately-held CoreOptics Inc., a designer of digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for high-speed optical networking applications. Headquartered in San Jose, with the majority of its employee base in Nuremberg and Gerlingen, Germany, CoreOptics will enable Cisco to equip service provider customers with highly advanced 100 Gigabits per [...]

Cisco TelePresence Service Launches in Morocco

Cisco TelePresence

Cisco announced that its Casablanca office has become the first business premises in Morocco to offer Cisco TelePresenceTM exchanges. Unveiled in Cisco’s Casablanca offices last week, the Cisco TelePresence solution offers a live, face-to-face experience that enables people from different offices and cities around the world to meet virtually using the power of the network. [...]

Station Casinos Bets on Cisco Unified Computing System

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Cisco announced that Station Casinos Inc., a large casino and resort operator in Las Vegas, has implemented one of the gaming industry’s most sophisticated data center infrastructures using the Cisco Unified Computing SystemTM. The network-based infrastructure serves as a platform for virtualizing a number of operations and gaming applications, from mobile Internet Protocol phone and [...]