The Cisco 730 Headset is much more than a headset, or headphone…. I have a relatively long history of being involved with headphones and portable music players. As the author of software that syncs with mobile digital music players, and the owner of several high end headphones/in ear monitors I have been focused on the … More Cisco 730 Headset
Chief Security Officers are being flummoxed by new Collaboration Tools because they’re not doing their homework. … More Security and Collaboration
As I warned in a post months back, “Watch out, Lync: there is a new kid on the block!”: Cisco has passed Microsoft in both “Ability to execute” and “Completeness of Vision” in the new Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications…. for whatever thats worth in your opinion š Read all about it, and view the … More Cisco passes Microsoft in the 2012 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications
This week has been a busy one at within the Cisco Collaboration space and a week that should have most Microsoft buyers stop in their tracks and take notice. The problem: In the latest permutation of the Microsoft Core Client Access License Suite (Core Cal Suite) Microsoft essentially added Lync Standard and upped the price … More Watch out, Lync! There is a new kid on the block
The writing is on the wall, and it says XMPP. The battle for UC has moved firmly into the mobile space, as has a large portion of many software based solutions. If you look around the industry at those leading in the mobility drive, clearly both Google and Apple are the major players. Both support … More XMPP: The writing is on the wall
I am currently on this call…. I promise I am paying attention. I thought I would upload some pictures I took with my Nikon of the videoconference. This conference has a person on a soft client (Cisco Movi), several folks in full Telepresence rooms, two of Cisco EX90 endpoints and myself on a WiFi Cisco … More Cisco Video: Example of an EX90 + Movi Softclient + Telepresence + Cius
Its all about location, location, location… I found that Geolocation was one of the more compelling aspects of our mashup. ts is simply easier for a user to find a resource on a map rather that to try figure out whether a resource listed in “Torrance, CA” is anywhere near the location “El Gato, CA”. … More Delivering on Collaboration and UC: Geolocation
Presence is all the rage… the darling of the UC set! We are hearing how presence can really make your unified communications platform pop, but how does it work in line of business apps? The initial business case for presence has largely to do with “Do I call this person now?” or “Should I bother … More Delivering on Collaboration and UC: Presence
The Expertise Locator used in the SOAR initiative at Cisco is running in VM on the following gear, which is, for the most part, all free and open source: A LAMP Box: 4GB RAM, 72GB HDD, Dual Core CentOS PHP MySQL Oracle Instant Client and PHP Module (Corp Directory) Perl (XMPP daemon) Back to … More Delivering on Collaboration and UC: Gear
Widgets, AJAX and Reuse In developing our SOAR applications, we wanted to keep in mind those core pieces that we needed to deliver: Cross browser, cross device functionality: If I am in a meeting, on a customer site and I need to know “the guy” who knows about a certain widget, I need to be … More Delivering on Collaboration and UC: Widgets/Click to Dial
Jeremy Laurenson 