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Cisco HealthPresence: Technology Recreates Face-to-Face Doctor’s Visit

With technologies like TelePresence, or Cisco’s (NASDAQ:CSCO) medical version HealthPresence, will we still visit with our doctor or medical specialist in the future? Watch this HealthPresence video below, where Cisco and the Discovery Channel team to demonstrate Cisco’s HealthPresence, which creates a live, face-to-face office visit for doctors and patients, even when they are hundreds of miles apart.

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Cisco today marks its 25th anniversary with a call to community service. Chairman and CEO John Chambers challenged every Cisco employee to volunteer four hours of service in his or her local community. The networking leader’s goal is an aggregate contribution of 200,000 employee volunteer hours, which equates to approximately 25 years worth of service to the global community.

“I can think of no better way to mark Cisco’s 25th year than focusing even more of our employees’ talents and energy on community service,” Chambers said. “Helping people connect and collaborate is not just core to our business—it is core to our values.”

Cisco was founded on December 10, 1984 by husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two former Stanford University computer scientists whose efforts to enable email between computers on different networks led to the invention of the first multiprotocol router. This seminal breakthrough played a major role in fueling the growth of the Internet.

Cisco has played a crucial role in enabling the profound change that the Internet has had on the world in the last 25 years.  Built on a robust network infrastructure, the Internet has transformed business, driven economic development and productivity and brought people together around the world.

Chambers continued, “In the coming quarter century, the role of the network will become even more important in driving growth, innovation, and productivity in industries such as healthcare, education and energy.  Looking ahead, Cisco is positioned to lead the evolution of the network to enable a ‘connected future’ which is increasingly collaborative, video-driven, personalized, and mobile.”

Twenty-five years, more than 7,000 patents, and nearly 1 million employee volunteer hours later, Cisco today is the worldwide leader in networking technologies that are changing how the world works, lives, plays and learns. The company’s commitment to innovation, customers and giving back has been key to Cisco’s success over the years—and it will drive the company’s ongoing mission to shape the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for customers, employees, investors and ecosystem partners.

Highlights / Facts:

• A quarter of a century ago there were just 1,000 “hosts” on the Internet, today there are more than 1.7 billion Internet users worldwide.
• In 1984, there were 1,000 Internet devices; today there are over a 1 billion.
• Cisco has grown from two employees with one product in 1984 to more than 63,000 people today in 200 offices worldwide with 50 product lines.
• Cisco has been on the forefront of information technology for 25 years and posted fiscal year 2009 revenue of $36.1 billion.
• Cisco’s innovation is demonstrated in the company’s more than 7,000 patents issued worldwide to Cisco inventors and 9,000 patent applications currently pending.
• Cisco employees have logged nearly 1 million hours of volunteer service since 2001.
• As a global corporate citizen, Cisco, in the last 10 years, has contributed over $1 billion to education, social inclusion and economic development initiatives globally.

John Chambers discuss Cisco’s 25th Anniversary

Cisco 25th Anniversary timeline

25th Anniversary Giving Back

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Highlights from the Virtual Computing Environment coalition launch with Cisco’s John Chambers, Joe Tucci (ECM Corporation) and Paul Maritz (VMware).

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Keith Goodwin, senior vp of Worldwide Channels talks about the three key elements of Cisco’s channel philosophy:

• partner profitability
• listening to partners
• leading market transitions

and the change in the current market due to the economic situation.

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Cisco today released a security report that warns that Internet-based attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and specialized as profit-driven criminals continue to hone their approach to stealing data from businesses, employees and consumers. In the 2008 edition of the Cisco® Annual Security Report, the company identifies the year’s top security threats and offers recommendations for protecting networks against attacks that are propagating more rapidly, becoming increasingly difficult to detect, and exploiting technological and human vulnerabilities.

“Every year we see threats evolve as criminals discover new ways to exploit people, networks and the Internet. This year’s trends underscore how important it is to look at all basic elements of security policies and technologies,” said Patrick Peterson, Cisco fellow and chief security researcher. “Organizations can lower their risk of data loss by fine-tuning access controls and patching known vulnerabilities to eliminate the ability for criminals to exploit holes in infrastructures. It is important to upgrade applications, endpoint systems and networking equipment to help ensure that corporate systems run smoothly and minimize risk.”

Peterson describes some key threat trends that gained prominence in 2008 in three video blogs posted today:

Overview of the Report

Botnets

Reputation Hijacking

The Annual Cisco Security Report: Notable Trends

• The overall number of disclosed vulnerabilities grew by 11.5 percent over 2007.
• Vulnerabilities in virtualization technology nearly tripled from 35 to 103 year over year.
• Attacks are becoming increasingly blended, cross-vector and targeted.
• Cisco researchers saw a 90 percent growth in threats originating from legitimate domains, nearly double what was seen in 2007.
• The volume of malware successfully propagated via e-mail attachments is declining. Over the past two years (2007-2008), the number of attachment-based attacks decreased by 50 percent from the previous two years (2005-2006).

Specific Threats Across the Web

• Spam. According to Cisco, spam accounts for nearly 200 billion messages each day, approximately 90 percent of worldwide e-mail. The United States is the biggest source at 17.2 percent. Other countries who contribute spam include Turkey (9.2 percent), Russia (8 percent), Canada (4.7 percent), Brazil (4.1 percent), India (3.5 percent), Poland (3.4 percent), South Korea (3.3 percent), Germany and the United Kingdom (2.9 percent each).
• Phishing. While targeted spear-phishing represents about 1 percent of all phishing attacks, it is expected to become more prevalent as criminals personalize spam and make messages appear more credible.
• Botnets. Botnets have become a nexus of criminal activity on the Internet. This year, numerous legitimate Web sites were infected with IFrames, malicious code injected by botnets that redirect visitors to malware-downloading sites.
• Social engineering. The use of social engineering to entice victims to open a file or click links continues to grow. Cisco expects that in 2009, social engineering techniques will increase in number, vectors and sophistication.
• Reputation hijacking. More online criminals are using real e-mail accounts with large, legitimate Web mail providers to send spam. This “reputation hijacking” offers increased deliverability because it makes spam harder to detect and block. Cisco estimates that in 2008 spam resulting from e-mail reputation hijacking of the top three Web mail providers accounted for less than 1 percent of all spam worldwide but constituted 7.6 percent of the providers’ mail traffic.

Threat Assessment and the Future

Findings for the report came in part from Cisco Security Intelligence Operations, an aggregation of tightly integrated data and security services derived from multiple Cisco divisions and devices to continuously assess and correlate Internet threats and vulnerabilities. Sources for Cisco Security Intelligence Operations data include Cisco’s worldwide Threat Operations Centers, Cisco Security Remote Management Services, the SenderBase Network, Cisco Security IntelliShield Alert Manager, Cisco Intrusion Prevention Systems and a variety of other Cisco functions, including Cisco Security Research and Operations, Cisco Security Incident Response, the Corporate Security Programs Office, and Global Policy and Government Affairs. In 2009, researchers from these Cisco security teams will watch the following trends closely:

• Insider threats. Negligent or disgruntled employees can threaten corporate security. The global economic downturn may prompt more security incidents involving employees, making it crucial for IT, HR, and other lines of business to collaborate on mitigating threats.
• Data loss. Whether through carelessness, breaches by hackers, or from insiders, data loss is a growing problem that can lead to grave financial consequences. Technology, education and clear, well-enforced data security policies can make compliance easier and reduce incidents.
• Mobility, remote working, and new tools as risk factors. The trend toward remote working and the related use of Web-based tools, mobile devices, virtualization, “cloud computing” and similar technologies to enhance productivity will continue in 2009. It will be a challenge for security personnel. The edge of the network is expanding rapidly, and the increasing number of devices and applications in use can make the expanding network more susceptible to new threats.

Today Cisco security executives will describe the report’s key findings in greater detail during a live, interactive Internet TV broadcast that can be accessed at the URL below. No registration is required. Go to the URL at 8:00 a.m. PST and click “Play” to launch the live presentation http://tools.cisco.com/cmn/jsp/index.jsp?id=81541. To access the free report, visit www.cisco.com/go/securityreport.

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Telarus has been voted the Top Master Agent for 2008 by members of the Telecom Association. The award is the Association’s highest honor and is a direct result of votes cast by all eligible members of TA, including agents, vendors, and VARs – all of whom work full-time in the telecom industry.The TA Member’s Choice Award comes on the heals of the Gold 5-Star designation that Telarus received in the 2008 VARBusiness Magazine Partner Program Guide, a guide that acknowledges the commitment and strength of a vendor’s partner programs for its Channel resellers, IT integrators, and technology consultants.

Adam Edwards, president of Telarus at the 2008 Spring Channel Partners Expo

“I feel like we’ve won the Super Bowl and World Series, all in the span of one week” commented Adam Edwards, president of Telarus. “Many people have asked the secret to our recent success; as though Telarus became successful overnight. The fact is, we’ve been executing on our unique business model for well over 4 years, quietly attracting new partners and finding new customers both online and offline. Likewise, our agents work extremely hard and they are extremely loyal. We work as a team, not individuals, and we reward our team with new technology that allows them to process more orders in less and less time. It’s just that simple.”

Telarus was nominated for the TA Members Choice Award for Top Master Agent for the first time in 2006 and was awarded the President’s Choice Award for Innovation. After another year of double-digit growth, voting members of the Association finally gave Telarus the nod for the Top Master Agent award.

“On behalf of the Telecom Association I’d like to congratulate Telarus and the other candidates for an outstanding vote” added Dan Baldwin, president of the Telecom Association. “Telarus has always been a peculiar entity because they attract business through affiliates and then distribute such leads to their agents – a model many inside the telecom industry thought would never work. Kudos to Telarus for not following the status quo and for becoming the newest winner of the top Master Agent category.”

“Winning this award is a major coup for Telarus” said Lance Akins, VP of Sales. “It shows just how committed we are to our agent’s livelihoods. We really do lose sleep over how to help them become more successful and they return the favor by leveraging our technology to increase their own productivity. We hope that this award will increase public awareness that there is a master agent who can write software, integrate with all of its carriers for real-time quotes, deliver internet leads to its agents, and wire accurate commissions on-time each and every month.”

About the Telecom Association

Originally founded in 1995, TA is a membership organization for telecom agents, channel partners and vendors that provide the telecom and technology business services. Of TA’s 2,000 members, about two-thirds are distributors and the rest are providers. TA collects, creates, publishes and distributes information and content that TA members need or desire to help make their businesses more efficient and profitable. To learn more visit http://www.telecomassociation.com/ or contact Dan Baldwin at 951-245-6877.

About Telarus

Telarus is a premier master agency who’s goal is to make agents more successful than they can be on their own or with any other master agency. Telarus provides is agents tools, automation, superior support, all in an atmosphere of cooperation and ethical community. Telarus drives warm leads to its agents and VARs through its web marketing portals which include: ShopforT1.com, ShopforEthernet.com, VARNetwork.com, and VARPartner.com.

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