Will Upgrades in Video Collaboration Boost Cisco’s Competitive Advantage?
Cisco is continuously updating their home and home office telecommunication tools. The multinational company that designs and sells consumer electronics announced that they will soon be releasing two more virtual desktops in the market to improve videoconferencing capabilities. These two new devices also are targeting two main objectives: create more visualization software and provide more economical or affordable videoconferencing endpoints.
In a prepared statement released in conjunction with the aforementioned news, Cisco Senior Vice President of voice technology Barry O’Sullivan said, “Voice and video doesn’t [traditionally] work well if running [over virtualization] in the data center. We believe we’ve solved this with VXI.”
Cisco is eying March of 2011 for the launch of the new devices—which will primarily support VMware View 4.5 and Citrix XenDesktop. Price is expected to reach $500 including USB keyboard, mouse and appropriate licenses. Each will bear implanted processor for decoding virtualization protocols. This will mean that companies can keep data on data center servers, instead of a desktop or mobile computer. Both are powered by Power over Ethernet.
Other changes at Cisco have been noticed within the last few days, or even hours. The organization has just acquired Mark Papermaster—another exec from Apple. Papermaster is believed to be the guy behind the infamous iPhone4 antenna bug that has graced IT headlines. He will be set to work with Cisco’s network switches.
Cisco also released their financial statement for the last quarter. The business still looks good for them as they exceeded earnings predicted by Wall Street. The company has been ramping up efforts to keep up with the current challenges set by opponents like Skype and Zucherberg’s Facebook. Skype is shelling out $1 billion IPO in 2011.
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