March 29, 2010 12:18 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
enterprise video,
HP,
mergers & acquisitions,
Polycom,
Siemens Enterprise Networks,
Tandberg,
Unified Communications,
video conferencing market consolidation,
videoconferencing,
voiceconDuring my travels to and from VoiceCon last week, I missed this little nugget about Gores Group approaching Polycom for a possible merger with Siemens-Enterasys.
Citing "people familiar with the...
March 24, 2010 8:27 AM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Unified Communications,
videoconferencing,
voiceconThe organizational impact of unified communications has interested me for a few years, ever since I heard a couple network engineers at Interop joking about how useless and difficult traditional telecom engineers are. I've since heard those sentiments echoed, perhaps a little more politely, many...
March 18, 2010 3:44 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Avaya,
Cisco,
IBM,
Microsoft,
network managment,
presence,
SIP Trunking,
videoconferencing,
voiceconAside from taking in most of the keynotes, meeting with vendors and chatting up attendees to learn about what they're working on, I've picked out a handful of sessions that I think relate to key trends in the industry right now. I'm going to attend as many of them as I can.
1....
March 11, 2010 4:37 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Mobile,
videoconferencingGawker is musing that terrorists prefer video chat to email or Twitter when it comes to communicating with their operatives. Evidence? Exhibit number 1 is the...
March 5, 2010 5:57 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
Tata,
telepresence,
videoconferencingThe visionaries and the evangelists at vendors like Cisco, Polycom, HP Halo et al would have you believe that the immersive experience of telepresence videoconferencing will eliminate some if not almost all of the need for business travel as the technology is adopted more broadly across the globe....
January 26, 2010 1:20 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
enterprise video,
Juniper,
mergers & acquisitions,
partnerships,
Polycom,
Siemens,
Siemens Enterprise Networks,
Tandberg,
Unified Communications,
videoconferencingCisco Systems' acquisition of videoconferencing vendor Tandberg is driving Cisco's rivals to Polycom, just as we expected.
When we reported on the Cisco-Tandberg deal...
December 4, 2009 8:09 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
enterprise video,
mergers & acquisitions,
Tandberg,
videoconferencingCisco finally managed to win over enough of Tandberg's shareholders to complete its takeover of the enterprise video company. Cisco had stipulated that it would only move ahead with the acquisition if it could gain 90% of Tandberg's stock, apparently because Norwegian law requires all shareholders...
December 3, 2009 10:46 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
enterprise video,
mergers & acquisitions,
Tandberg,
videoconferencingDear Tandberg shareholders: Will you or won't you make Cisco the happiest and most powerful videoconferencing vendor in the world?
This acquisition of Tandberg sure has drama, doesn't it? Here it is, early evening on Dec. 3 and there's still no word as to whether Cisco has acquired the requisite...
November 16, 2009 7:23 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
enterprise video,
mergers & acquisitions,
Tandberg,
videoconferencingCisco's newly revised $3.41 billion offer for Tandberg represents a total capitulation to the demands of several holdout Tandberg shareholders who were asking for more money.
Cisco...
