http://certcities.com/news/TCPmag.com brings you the latest independent news for the Cisco Internetorking Professional and is relied upon by industry experts worldwide.en-us(c) 2000-2006 101communications LLC. All Rights Reserved.News780Networking giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed an interest in the hosted productivity suite space that Microsoft is poised to dominate. http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1466http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1466Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMTIf you've ever wondered why Cisco and other players are jockeying for position in the UCC segment, a new survey from Infonetics should help clear things up. http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1464http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1464Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMTIt looks like the economic crunch is affecting the recently crunch-proof service provider routing and switching segment.http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1465http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1465Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMTShortly after Microsoft and HP joined forces to front a combined unified communications and collaboration (UCC) effort, Cisco struck back.http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1461http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1461Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMTCisco recently cozied up to service provider giant Clearwire, inking a deal to become the national IP NGN infrastructure provider for Clearwire's WiMAX network. http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1460http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1460Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMTCisco's announcement this week of a new "Smart Grid" secure network infrastructure offering takes it further afield from its enterprise networking roots. http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1458http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1458Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 GMTChinese networking giant Huawei has quietly become a force to be reckoned with in the optical networking segment, surpassing longtime market leader Alcatel-Lucent in Q1 of 2009 for optical market bragging rights. http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1459http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1459Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 GMTLast month, Cisco quietly moved to shore up its presence in the cable service provider space, outlining a new initiative, Connected Life at Home, in tandem with several cable service provider partners.http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1455http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1455Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 GMTIf recent market research is any indication, it's an increasingly multi-gigabit world.http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1456http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1456Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 GMTExperts say Cisco's acquisition of Tidal, which develops job scheduling and datacenter automation software, is an important one for Cisco, in as much as it dispenses with an all-too-obvious shortcoming on Cisco's part. http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1453http://tcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=1453Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT