Newz Snippets Spring-2016
Sometimes being succinct, yet thorough, and presenting details without fluff and hype is refreshing. Here, we round-up recent advancements around business telephony and unified communications products...
View ArticleGetting the Message
Over the past several months I’ve been using Cisco Spark and Unify Circuit for projects and communications. Here’s a few take-aways from the experience. I get it. There’s a reason why...
View ArticleOpening the iOS Dialer
Last week Apple made several announcements at its developer’s conference and the UC nugget within was the implication that they opened the iPhone dialer. The problem with most UC apps today...
View ArticleCommTech is Hot
It happened. The biggest IPO of the year so far is a company that provides phone and messaging services. The stock soared more than 90% on its first day of...
View ArticleCisco #CScape Recap with Zeus
Zeus Kerravla and I recently attended the CScape conference (for analysts) which runs within the larger Cisco Live event. Cisco Live US is Cisco’s annual customer and partner event. This...
View ArticleScotty, Beamform me up
Humans can usually hear what they want to hear. It is known as the cocktail party effect – we can hear the conversation we want, near or far, and tune-out the...
View ArticleIBM and Cisco at the Sametime
On today’s WSJ front page is an article about pre-bubble Internet stocks being hot again. Needless to say there’s plenty of pre-bubble Internet stocks that aren’t around any more. What did...
View ArticleWhy I am Shorting Cisco’s Stock
Cisco is a dominate player in the networking, security, and communications markets, but they are facing ever stronger head winds. Their current business model cannot sustain these headwinds and their...
View ArticleCisco Meraki Jumps into Telphony with MC74
It looks like Cisco is going to take another crack at SMB telephony, but this time it’s not from the Cisco Collaboration unit. It’s from Cisco golden-child Meraki. Before getting into...
View ArticleNewz Snippets Spring-2016
Sometimes being succinct, yet thorough, and presenting details without fluff and hype is refreshing. Here, we round-up recent advancements around business telephony and unified communications products...
View ArticleGetting the Message
Over the past several months I’ve been using Cisco Spark and Unify Circuit for projects and communications. Here’s a few take-aways from the experience. I get it. There’s a reason why...
View ArticleOpening the iOS Dialer
Last week Apple made several announcements at its developer’s conference and the UC nugget within was the implication that they opened the iPhone dialer. The problem with most UC apps today...
View ArticleCommTech is Hot
It happened. The biggest IPO of the year so far is a company that provides phone and messaging services. The stock soared more than 90% on its first day of...
View ArticleCisco #CScape Recap with Zeus
Zeus Kerravla and I recently attended the CScape conference (for analysts) which runs within the larger Cisco Live event. Cisco Live US is Cisco’s annual customer and partner event. This...
View ArticleScotty, Beamform me up
Humans can usually hear what they want to hear. It is known as the cocktail party effect – we can hear the conversation we want, near or far, and tune-out the...
View ArticleIBM and Cisco at the Sametime
On today’s WSJ front page is an article about pre-bubble Internet stocks being hot again. Needless to say there’s plenty of pre-bubble Internet stocks that aren’t around any more. What did...
View ArticleWill Cisco Monopolize the SD-WAN Market?
IDC forecasts that the SD-WAN market will grow from $225M in 2015 to $6B by 2020. This is a CAGR of over 90%! The global enterprise network equipment market consisting...
View ArticleCisco Spark, Slack ignite fledgling team messaging market
One topic I regularly get asked about is Cisco Spark. Specifically, is anyone using Cisco Spark? In a recent Network World interview, Rowan Trollope, Cisco’s head of collaboration, finally provided...
View ArticleUC and Conferencing
Does UC include conferencing? The vendor pitch is always yes, but in reality conferencing is often acquired separately. My wife just started work at a new company and on her...
View ArticleWhat I Saw at Cisco Oslo
I recently spent a cold October day at Cisco Oslo. This office supports about 500 Cisco employees, 80 percent of which are engineering focused and about half of the engineers once...
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