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Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Comcast Selects Cisco ASR 9000 for Business Metro Ethernet Services

June 20, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Comcast has deployed the Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series (ASR 9000) as part of its next-generation network that is delivering advanced business services in more than 20 major U.S. markets, with expansion into new markets planned in the months ahead. Comcast is working with Cisco on this deployment based on Cisco’s technology, services, and [...]

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Good Enough Network Myth Debunked by Cisco

April 25, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Update: view the presentation online here On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Cisco will host a live IPTV broadcast to debunk the Myth of the “Good Enough” Network by outlining the seven most common misperceptions about taking a tactical, multi-vendor approach to building business-critical networks. The webcast will be hosted by Rob Lloyd, Cisco’s executive vice [...]

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Cisco’s New Green Data Center in Texas Showcases Private Cloud Deployment

April 15, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Cisco today announced a new green data center in Allen, Texas, with an architecture deploying Cisco’s entire data center technology portfolio spanning computing, switching, and data storage access to support Cisco’s internal private cloud and deliver Information Technology (IT) as a service. The new data center demonstrates the value of a network-based approach through improved [...]

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Cisco Acquisition of newScale Completed

April 15, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Cisco has completed its acquisition of privately-held newScale Inc., a provider of software that delivers a service catalog and self-service portal for IT organizations to select and quickly deploy cloud services within their businesses. Based in San Mateo, Calif., newScale allows commercial and enterprise customers to initiate the provisioning of their own systems and infrastructure [...]

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Cisco Restructures Consumer Business – Goodbye Flip & Hello Business TelePresence

April 12, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

As part of Cisco’s plan to align its operations, it will exit aspects of its consumer businesses and realign the remaining consumer business to support four of its five key company priorities – core routing, switching and services; collaboration; architectures; and video. As part of its plan, Cisco will: Close down its Flip business and [...]

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Cisco continues to be #1 ranked Innovator according to The Patent Board

March 24, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, California, USA) continues to hold the top rank on this week’s Patent Scorecard. Cisco holds a comfortable lead over the industry, and had a patent count increase of 10%, well above the 8.3% industry average increase. It also had a 16% improvement in Research Intensity™ for the period. AT&T (Dallas [...]

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Cisco Announces First Ever Cash Dividend

March 18, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Cisco today announced that on March 17, 2011, its Board of Directors approved the initiation of quarterly cash dividends to its shareholders. This is the first cash dividend paid to shareholders in the company’s history. A quarterly dividend of $0.06 per common share will be paid on April 20, 2011, to all shareholders of record [...]

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Cisco Videoscape Strategy Driven Acquisition of Inlet Technologies Completed

March 14, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

Cisco has completed its acquisition of privately-held Inlet Technologies, a leading provider of Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms. Based in Raleigh, N.C., Inlet strengthens the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform, allowing service and content providers to deliver compelling video experiences to any device over any Internet Protocol (IP) network. Cisco Videoscape [...]

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Cybercriminals Shift Targeting to Mobile Platforms – Cisco 2010 Annual Security Report

January 20, 2011 Cisco News (NASDAQ: CSCO)

In a major cybercrime turning point, scammers have begun shifting their focus away from Windows-based PCs to other operating systems and platforms, including smart phones, tablet computers, and mobile platforms in general, according to the Cisco® 2010 Annual Security Report, released today. The report also finds that 2010 was the first year in the history [...]

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