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Cisco Webex Celebrates 10 Years of Delivering the Best Mobile Meeting Experience
Delivering the Best Mobile Meeting Experience In 2009, CNN reported “smartphone craze” as one of its top 10 tech trends of the year—noting the growing use of mobile phones as computers. At the time, people were just starting to use these small devices to send emails and SMS messages, anywhere and an…
Boom! Five Applications that Showed Explosive Growth in 2015
We’re always on the lookout for the next big application to drive Internet traffic. When we see a type of traffic almost doubling in a year, we put it on our watch list. Below are five that topped our watch list based on the most recent Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Complete Forecast. VIRTUA…
Norway Looking to Lead in Customer Experience & Engagement
Norway’s longest running IT conference , IT-tinget concluded yesterday in the beautiful town of Tonsberg about an hour south of Oslo. The event has been running for 31 years now and is organized and run by Cisco’s partner Evry. This years theme is “#UserIsKing” , and Cisco hosted a special Retail Br…
Location Based Services Enabling Smart Connected Cities
Smart Cities and the Internet of Everything have become commonly used terms over the past year or two. Both represent huge opportunities for both business growth and also for the delivery of better services and experiences for consumers and citizens alike. The size of this IoE opportunity has been w…
Revamping the MSE User Interface
As part of the WLC 8.0 release, we addressed customer comments and revamped the user interface (UI) for the MSE. We wanted to make it easier for customers using both MSE and PI to adjust to larger deployments. We also wanted to quicken the pace at which we could deliver features to the customers. To…
Show Me the Retail Data
Success in retail often comes down to a counting game. How many people pass by your store? How many come inside? How long do they stay? And most importantly how many ultimately buy? Today, the retail counting game has gotten a lot easier because we can now count devices as proxies for people, s…
In Case of Emergency, Location Accuracy Matters
Going to NENA next week? Join us in Booth 515. The ability to summon emergency assistance by using a phone to call 9-1-1 has been ingrained in our society for more than 40 years. For a successful emergency response, it is critical that the responders receive accurate location information. Traditio…
802.11ac: That’s the Answer. What’s the question?
Everybody’s talking about 802.11ac, but we’ve sensed some confusion for next steps as far as how CIO’s and IT organizations should be approaching the new standard. Should I move to 802.11ac? You’re probably thinking: Chris, you’re a leader at Cisco, of course you want me to migrate to 802.11ac. That…
How the Shift to Mobility & Location-Based Services is Changing Hospitality & Guest Services.
Mobility trend in Hospitality A recent TripAdvisor survey found that over 40% of travelers use their smart phones to plan a trip and over 46% use their smart phones to enhance their trip while traveling. No longer is it just an idea or an aspiration for the hospitality industry to use innovative me…