Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), which got into the set-top box business by acquiring box pioneer Scientific Atlanta, expects it will get out of that business by using its traditional strengths--IP and the Internet cloud--Ken Morse, CTO of Cisco 3825 Service Provider Technology Group said during a keynote address at a Light Reading event in New York City.
"Set-tops are clearly moving to the point where they are either a piece of software that lives in another device or they're virtualized totally in the cloud," Morse said during the address.
The change out, of course, depends on cable migrating to IP technology which the industry has not hurried to do, and the cloud maintaining some semblance of reliability and security. On the other hand, the end of the set-top era could spell good news for Cisco 3900 price which recently reported that sales of set-tops were "challenged."
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Cisco sends NSS Labs another firewall
CIO - Cisco CEO John Chambers this week announced a major restructuring of the company's business after two quarters of disappointing financial results. Namely, Cisco plans to stop producing consumer products like the Flip video camera and will roll its Umi consumer telepresence product into its business telepresence line. In addition, there will be a workforce reduction of 550 people.
As Cisco distances itself from consumer products, it will refocus all resources on its core competency: the networking, collaboration and video needs of the enterprise.
To this effect, the networking giant is opening a new state-of-the-art data center in Texas this week to help deliver traditional networking services via the cloud.
With cloud, collaboration and unified communications in mind, Cisco Router CIO Rebecca Jacoby sat down with CIO.com to discuss the future of the enterprise worker, as well as how IT can manage different mobiles devices and operating systems and justify cloud investments to the executive suite.
The following is an edited version of Jacoby's interview.
At the enterprise level, collaboration tools and unified communications sound great and can work well, but are often difficult to implement. How is Cisco helping to facilitate this transition to UC tools, both internally and for enterprise customers? At Cisco we raised unified communications to a strategic imperative about three years ago. This allowed us to take a holistic look at how our communication systems come together, and do it in a way where we are not just pushing technology on people, but letting them interact with it. We invited people from outside IT to test our collaboration platform and tell us which collaboration and communication technologies they find useful. We knew we didn't have strong expertise in this area [unified communications] so we used the technology to invite employees in to help us learn.
Employees gave feedback on how they could apply UC technologies in real working environments. We set up a board with reps from every part of the company. It allowed us to customize our collaboration platform for specific business units such as customer service, engineering and manufacturing.
What about interoperability? What are the challenges of getting UC tools and platforms from different vendors to work together? Interoperability is a huge priority for us internally and for our customers. As a CIO, complexity costs money. So it's important to be interoperable. IT organizations produce a lot of the costs from integrating and testing technologies. Communication systems need to be seamless, and the convergence of data and communication networks with voice and video is making it seamless.
We created a platform with Cisco Switch Quad that allows you to see who your people are, what information you are working on and what communities you are associated with. The platform allows plug-in apps, and is relatively interoperable with the types of apps people use. That's critical to how it moves forward.
As Cisco distances itself from consumer products, it will refocus all resources on its core competency: the networking, collaboration and video needs of the enterprise.
To this effect, the networking giant is opening a new state-of-the-art data center in Texas this week to help deliver traditional networking services via the cloud.
With cloud, collaboration and unified communications in mind, Cisco Router CIO Rebecca Jacoby sat down with CIO.com to discuss the future of the enterprise worker, as well as how IT can manage different mobiles devices and operating systems and justify cloud investments to the executive suite.
The following is an edited version of Jacoby's interview.
At the enterprise level, collaboration tools and unified communications sound great and can work well, but are often difficult to implement. How is Cisco helping to facilitate this transition to UC tools, both internally and for enterprise customers? At Cisco we raised unified communications to a strategic imperative about three years ago. This allowed us to take a holistic look at how our communication systems come together, and do it in a way where we are not just pushing technology on people, but letting them interact with it. We invited people from outside IT to test our collaboration platform and tell us which collaboration and communication technologies they find useful. We knew we didn't have strong expertise in this area [unified communications] so we used the technology to invite employees in to help us learn.
Employees gave feedback on how they could apply UC technologies in real working environments. We set up a board with reps from every part of the company. It allowed us to customize our collaboration platform for specific business units such as customer service, engineering and manufacturing.
What about interoperability? What are the challenges of getting UC tools and platforms from different vendors to work together? Interoperability is a huge priority for us internally and for our customers. As a CIO, complexity costs money. So it's important to be interoperable. IT organizations produce a lot of the costs from integrating and testing technologies. Communication systems need to be seamless, and the convergence of data and communication networks with voice and video is making it seamless.
We created a platform with Cisco Switch Quad that allows you to see who your people are, what information you are working on and what communities you are associated with. The platform allows plug-in apps, and is relatively interoperable with the types of apps people use. That's critical to how it moves forward.
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