Smith On VoIP

I keep hearing a ton about the huge Cisco deployment that is happening at the University of Cambridge and one blogger who covered the news wonder if the university would be using third party SIP based phones with deployment, since Cisco Call Manager supports SIP.
Fat chance.
Here is the problem with Cisco Call Managers SIP […]

Red Herring’s article on Cisco and its ambition to take over from Google as the innovative leader got me thinking as to why are they doing what they are doing.
Cisco was always at a disadvantage compared to Microsoft and Google when it came to interacting with the everyday Joes and Johns. That is one […]

Someone better buy a few units of Cisco’s new TelePresence videoconferencing system (US$79K, US$299K) because they have to pay for their purchase of Orative, a private maker of applications for mobile devices. They spent US$20M on Orative (great name), so they’ll need to sell about 70 orders of the high-end version of TelePresence to make […]

The Dell’Oro Group, a market information group, released a report yesterday that has Cisco selling well over 1 Million ip phones in the second quarter of 2006. The report all shows the total ip phone market growing by 42% from Q2 of 2005, to over $500 Million.
What I found interesting about these numbers was the […]

At a recent regional field training for Cisco IP Telephony, it was mentioned that Cisco is moving towards 3rd party interoperability with their Cisco Call Manager system. With the upcoming of release of Call Manager 5.0 and the new line of Cisco IP end points that come SIP ready, it seems Cisco is finally on […]

It looks like Cisco is set to unveil a SIP based unified messenger, with their upcoming release of Call Manager (CM) 5.0 this spring.The messenger is presence based, converging video, voice, unified messaging, conferencing, and instant message.
Garrett Smith

Thinking of adding a Cisco CP-7920G WiFi phone to your SIP based phone system?
Well think again!
Cisco phones have long been the envy of every customer looking at desktop handsets, but have proven difficult to work with especially because they are natively SCCP (also known as “Skinny”) and require a fair amount of time to be […]