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  New iPad app creates secure video conferencing, collaboration

  A new iOS app lets enterprise iPad users set up secure video conferences with others both inside and outside their organization. The app also can leverage features such as instant messaging, presence, multi-party calling, and voicemail via a range of third-party unified communications servers.

  By John Cox | 13 April, 2012 07:32

  Tags: Avaya, Fusion UC app, Microsoft, networking, sip, Thrupoint, unified communication, unified communications, videoconferencing, video conferencing

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  Vidyo sets up program for virtual video network operators

  Vidyo is announcing a new program for service providers, enabling cloud-based video services it says could sell for $30 per month.

  By Tim Greene | 27 March, 2012 04:45

  Tags: cloud computing, internet, networking, unified communications, videoconferencing, videoconferencing service, Vidyo

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  Cisco offers virtualized video surveillance

  Cisco today announced a virtualized version of its Video Surveillance software for use on its Unified Computing System platform for enterprise- or government-operated video-camera deployments.

  By Ellen Messmer | 21 March, 2012 23:50

  Tags: alcatel-lucent, applications, Cisco; video; virtualization; VMware; Xen; Hyper-V, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, networking, network storage, Photo / video, security, software, unified communications, videoconferencing, Virtualization

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  'Insatiable demand' for streaming video puts pressure on providers

  Just as enterprise network managers brace for the flood of bandwidth-consuming content stemming from the NCAA men's basketball tournament, content delivery providers put in a significant amount of time preparing to meet the meteoric rise in demand.

  By Colin Neagle | 16 March, 2012 05:25

  Tags: CBS Sports, content delivery, infrastructure management, management, March Madness, NCAA tournament, networking, Network management, online streaming, Turner Sports, unified communications, videoconferencing

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  Cisco pays $5 billion for video company buy

  Cisco this week said it will acquire NDS Group Ltd., a provider of video software and content security systems for service providers and media companies, for $5 billion.

  By Jim Duffy | 16 March, 2012 02:32

  Tags: acquisitions, applications, business issues, Cisco, corporate issues, internet tv, LAN & WAN, mergers, mergers and acquisitions, NDS, networking, Photo / video, software, tandberg, unified communications, video, videoconferencing

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  Avaya buys Radvision for $230 million

  Avaya has purchased videoconferencing company Radvision for $230 million, the company announced today.

  By Brandon Butler | 16 March, 2012 01:27

  Tags: Avaya, Avaya acquisitions, Avaya Radvision, networking, unified communications, videoconferencing

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  IT stressed over cloud and video bandwidth demands

  IT executives understand the value of cloud services and videoconferencing tools, but one of the chief concerns remains the strain those services put on network bandwidth, according to a study released today.

  By Brandon Butler | 14 March, 2012 03:29

  Tags: bandwidth management, cloud computing, internet, networking, unified communications, videoconferencing, video conferencing

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  CBA trialling video conferencing in regional Australia

  The Commonwealth Bank has commenced ‘in-branch’ trials of video conferencing in for customers in regional Australia.

  By Chloe Herrick | 08 March, 2012 16:06

  Tags: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Michael Harte, videoconferencing

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  Cisco bounces back

  Cisco has been crowing about its rebound, and with good reason. What a difference a year makes.

  By John Dix | 27 February, 2012 22:31

  Tags: business issues, Cisco, Cisco financial results, Cisco restructuring, Cisco stock, Cisco UCE, Configuration / maintenance, corporate issues, Data Center, financial results, hardware systems, John Chambers, Microsoft, restructuring, Skype, Telecommunication, Unified Computing Environment, videoconferencing, VoIP

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  Video now accounts for half of mobile data traffic

  Video now accounts for half of all data transferred on mobile networks, up from 40% during the same time last year, according to ByteMobile's first quarter 2012 Mobile Analytics Report.

  By Brandon Butler | 24 February, 2012 05:39

  Tags: Android video, ByteMobile, iPad video, mobile video, networking, unified communications, videoconferencing, wireless

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  HP high-def webcam makes us look better on Skype

  The scoop: HD 5210 Webcam, by HP, about $100.

  By Keith Shaw | 24 February, 2012 04:33

  Tags: Google, Google Chat, HD 5210 Webcam, HD webcam, hewlett-packard, HP, HP Webcam, networking, Skype, unified communications, video calling, video chat, videoconferencing, webcam

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  Cisco: Customers drove us to block Microsoft/Skype

  Cisco's appeal of the European Commission's approval of the $8.5 billion Microsoft/Skype union is customer driven, Cisco CEO John Chambers said this week.

  By Jim Duffy | 24 February, 2012 01:29

  Tags: appeal to EC ruling, applications, Cisco, collaboration, european commission, John Chambers, LAN & WAN, Microsoft, networking, Scientific Atlanta, Skype, software, unified communications, videoconferencing

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  Cisco on Microsoft/Skype: Sour grapes?

  Does Cisco have non-buyer's remorse over the Microsoft/Skype union?

  By Jim Duffy | 17 February, 2012 03:27

  Tags: business issues, Cisco, european commission, LAN & WAN, mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft, networking, Skype, unified communications, videoconferencing

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  Cisco aims to blunt the power of Microsoft-Skype merger

  Cisco's plea to make Skype video conferencing protocols public is at least in part a defensive move to protect Cisco's dominance in video as it faces the potentially formidable blending of Skype with Microsoft's unified communication platform, Lync, experts say.

  By Tim Greene | 17 February, 2012 01:26

  Tags: Cisco, Cisco video conferencing, Microsoft, networking, Skype, Skype video, unified communications, videoconferencing

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  Cisco cranks up Internet TV volume at CES

  At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week Cisco unveiled extensions to its Internet TV platform and strategy that enable "video in the cloud" services.

  By Jim Duffy | 10 January, 2012 20:49

  Tags: Apple, CES 2012, Cisco, Cisco Internet TV, Cisco video, cloud computing, Gateway, Google, internet, internet tv, Microsoft, networking, unified communications, videoconferencing