It’s not even born at the federal level. It’s born by every individual police department, every individual fire department of every small town, not to mention each commercial organization that would want to do something...

We think of it as a very new capability inside unified communications.

We are starting from the scratch . In fact the wireless (phenomenon) will have bigger impact in India and China than US as North America is already wired.

Cisco views IP as the future for all communications systems. Cisco IPICS technology has the potential to deliver a platform to provide an inexpensive solution for pervasive radio interoperability that helps organizations dynamically manage the...

Our plan is that sometime early next year, we will then start to put this on the Cisco overall price list.

Under command and control, these different radio systems can interoperate with one another,

Over time we will expand our technology portfolio to better address even more applications-related information technology challenges.

Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal...

Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.

It will really indicate the power of IP networks to beyond the power of what we’re doing today.

The Internet and new networking requirements are enough of a disruptor for us to enter a new market.

We’ll collect feedback from that to see what our next steps should be.

We haven’t announced pricing yet, but I think it’s compelling given the alternative. It will probably be about 10 cents to the dollar when compared to replacing radios. That’s a bargain.

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The same technology to stop malicious hosts can also be used to block a server. The Chinese government uses that capability to block servers.

Cisco Application Networking Services are network-based technologies for improving the performance of software applications for accessing information, collaborating and communicating.

It really starts to extend what we call the intelligent information network.

Because of the lack of interoperability, we can lose billions of dollars in productivity,

In emergency situations, you have a variety of public agencies involved, and they have incompatible radio systems.

By building on Cisco SONA, Cisco Unified Communications leverages network intelligence to greatly simplify the day-to-day challenges of collaboration with colleagues.