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Cisco Collaboration: We Can’t Imagine a World without Microsoft
As CTO for the collaboration group at Cisco, I get asked this question all of the time – are you guys committed to a multi-vendor environment with Microsoft? Gosh, I find this a frustrating question. Why is that? Because most (not all, but almost!) customers we sell to also have Microsoft products i…
Universal Federation in Cisco Spark: Collaborate with Anyone
Really and seriously, and I mean it this time. In my work in the last twenty years on IP communications, the holy grail of the industry was to enable solutions that provide true any-to-any communications. That is – in the workplace environment – it would be possible for any user in Company A to talk…
The Brains Behind the Beauty: Cisco Spark Board Technology
We couldn’t be more proud that the Cisco Spark Board has taken home the “Best of the Best” Red Dot Award. As product designer Torkel Mellingen discussed in his recent post, this award is a clear indicator that we’ve delivered on the promise we sought to make – a well-designed product that users woul…
The Importance of Standards, IETF, and Interop to Collaboration at Cisco
For those of you who know me, you know that I’ve dedicated much of my career to the development of Internet standards. The Session Initiation Protocol – RFC 3261 (SIP) was part of joint research I did with Professor Henning Schrulzrinne at Columbia University beginning in 1995. And after 20 years, S…
Using Cisco Spark Teams to Manage My Team
For the past few months, I’ve been using the teams feature of Cisco Spark to manage the projects that my team – the Chief Technology Office in the Cisco Collaboration Technology Group (CTG) – is undertaking. This experiment has been a smashing success and I wanted to share the interesting way in whi…
White Boarding in Cisco Spark: Always Yours, Always Live, Always Secure
We’re really excited about the new Cisco Spark Board and the collaboration experiences it will bring to teams. Of course, a key part of that experience is the interactive digital white-boarding capability that allows both Cisco Spark Board and Cisco Spark application users to view and cooperatively…
R.I.P. Conference Room Projection Cable
We’ve all been there. You walk into a conference room, and you have a simple task – project your laptop screen onto the screen at the end of the conference room. Yet, until now, this simple task has been really hard. The first step is the hunt for the cable. Sometimes it’s right there on the table.…
A Deeper Dive on Apple and Cisco
It’s hard to believe that we’ve had the modern smartphone – pioneered by the Apple iPhone of course – for only 9 years. Just nine years! Does anyone remember how they lived before smartphones? Personally, I cannot live without my iPhone. I depend on it for maps and navigation. I don’t even know how…
Seamless Enterprise Calling on iPhone and iPad
Our goal in working with Apple was to create a no-compromise business calling experience on iOS. And with today’s announcements at WWDC, we have taken a huge step forward in delivering that capability to end users and IT departments. So let’s get real, what did we announce? Well, we announced that C…
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