VoIP News

The Future of Video Conferencing
Cisco is a believer in video communications in that Cisco predicts that it will become all pervasive – ‘90% of all Internet traffic will be video by 2014’.Cisco makes first VoIP call from space
In January 2010 Cisco put a router into space indicating that voice, data and video traffic between satellites over a single IP network would be more efficient.Meru Networks: This is what wireless LAN should be…
Easy to deploy and zero interference wireless solutions are the nirvana of dense deployment wireless networks. Meru Networks has a wireless solution that is a true replacement for a wired LAN; allowing applications such as video streaming and wireless VoIP to function seamlessly alongside normal data clients.Videocomms benefits beyond cost reduction
90% of the users of video communication believe that this form of collaboration saves them at least two hours of valuable work time each week; over 30% estimate it's about one full day a week, according to a recent study.Cisco buys video over IP software expertise
Cisco has completed the acquisition of ExtendMedia, a leading provider of Content Management Systems for video.IPv6 really is coming
The next Internet Protocol is being rolled out; Cisco has begun to change its own internal systems to IPv6 and the US Government has committed to 2012 for the change-over from IPv4 to IPv6.Cisco Predicts Online Video to be 91% of global consumer traffic by 2014
The ongoing march and dominance of YouTube and recent high profile launch of Google TV has lead to a lot of general speculation about the impact of online video on internet traffic in the coming years. With the recent release of its Visual Networking Index forecast, Cisco has attempted to put a figure on that.IT technology predictions
Cisco has recently conducted some research on 15,000 people’s views on IT technology and predictions for the future. The research included people in the public sector, healthcare, education, marketing and businesses.Smartpac Network Repair Service Continues to Grow
The Smartpac Repair team continue their expansion with the recruitment of Andy Kemp as a UK Repair Centre Consultant.Cisco buying for network traffic upsurge
Cisco is still very much on the acquisition trail, signalling its intent to buy CoreOptics – a designer of digital signal processing solutions for high-speed optical networking applications, so that transmission technology keeps up with IP traffic increases.Video Calling
Video communication is not a new idea and has been around for decades. However, the technology has improved dramatically over recent years, but there is still a barrier to overcome for it to be accepted and used.Small / medium-sized businesses use VoIP technology not planes
In a recent research programme of 1200 small and medium-sized businesses in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the UK; the findings were that in the current global economic climate they are more likely to use technology tools to communicate with business partners than schedule a business trip.Google – your next strategic technology partner?
CIOs and IT decision-makers need to decide whether Google becomes a strategic technology partner for the new enterprise/consumer platform.IT, the shape of digital and business in the future
There are a number of themes which are emerging that CIOs and IT & network hardware managers need to understand as they will affect the implementation of their network infrastructure strategies.Cisco – the latest acquisition news in the VoIP world
Cisco may not go ahead with the acquisition of Tandberg, but has announced another deal with a Chinese set-top box business and deployment of an IP backbone for T-Mobile.Ethernet: the answer to data centre cabling chaos
The mass of cables that are required to connect all the network hardware in the data centre is causing cable chaos and additional costs.New Cisco Repair Manager for Smartpac Repair
Sebastien Bourgoin has recently joined Hardware.com as the Group Repair Sales Manager and is the driving force behind the next level of growth for Smartpac Repair. Sebastien comes to Hardware.com from a repair sales and maintenance background, and before that he was a Hardware.com Account Manager for France.Virtualisation, the cloud and green network installations
84% of large organisations, especially those in emerging markets, have not cancelled any IT projects since October 2008. 35% of IT Directors said they would increase investments in virtualisation, 32% said there would be increased investment in green IT, and 7% would invest more in cloud computing.