Post by Terry Alberstein, Director, Corporate Communications
]]>Jayshree has been at Cisco for 15 years and has made many lasting contributions to the company. She has held numerous senior and strategic roles at Cisco and pioneered Cisco’s entry into many new markets, including Ethernet switching, unified communications, high-end routing, optical, security and data center innovation. Jayshree’s contributions to the networking industry and the respect she garners across the organization ensures that she will always remain part of the extended Cisco family.
We wish you the best of luck, Jayshree...you will be missed.
Post by Elizabeth McNichols, Director, Corporate Communications
]]>Beyond helping customers with technology roll-outs, Cisco also helps customers operate their Cisco solutions throughout their lifecycle and this award recognizes the innovative approach we’ve taken with Cisco Smart Call Home.
Unique in the networking industry, Smart Call Home offers proactive diagnostics and real-time alerts on Cisco devices that can automatically engage TAC in potential issues and determine resolution steps by the time network administrators are even aware there is a problem. The Smart Call Home service capability is embedded today in the Catalyst 6500, MDS 9000 and 7600 with support for many other Cisco devices over the next 12 months.
SSPA is the largest and most influential industry trade group for technology service and support professionals with nearly 200 member companies globally (www.thesspa.com). Smart Call Home is a Cisco service capability available as part of Cisco's SMARTnet service.
Post by Linda Horiuchi, Cisco PR Manager
]]>As you may have read, the FBI has identified a number of unauthorized companies that have sold products with the Cisco trademark to various government agencies and other organizations. This is of major concern to us, and we wanted to take a moment to share the efforts we are taking to ensure only legitimate Cisco products end up in the hands of our loyal customers.
Unfortunately, counterfeiting is not a new issue in the IT industry or indeed in any successful global enterprise. Because our customers expect and deserve the highest-level of satisfaction when purchasing Cisco products, we actively monitor the counterfeit market and have longstanding processes in place to address this challenge.
As part of our commitment to the integrity and quality of Cisco technology and services, our Brand Protection team leads an aggressive, concerted and company-wide effort to prevent potential damage to our brand and to our customers as a result of counterfeiting. Because counterfeiting is a criminal activity, we work closely with law enforcement agencies worldwide whenever those agencies decide to take action against those who would profit by this illegal conduct.
In this instance, Cisco has collaborated with the FBI and other Federal law enforcement, and we appreciate their hard work in this important area. We have participated in many aspects of the investigation, and have proactively briefed high-level individuals at multiple government agencies.
So what can you do? We can’t stress enough the importance to Cisco customers and channel partners of procuring equipment only from Cisco authorized channels. If you have any questions or concerns I would recommend calling your Cisco representative or authorized reseller immediately.
Again, we appreciate the hard work by the FBI in this case as well as the efforts by all law enforcement agencies in cracking down on the counterfeit market. This is a serious issue that we are diligently fighting every day to ensure our customers receive only genuine Cisco products.
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"In the next few years, the most critical way mobility will be used in healthcare is to improve efficiency. It no longer makes sense for a worker to use fixed devices 50 times a day when we see an increasingly mobile workforce."- Randy Regimbal, Director of Network Services, Mayo Clinic
You can also view a video of Randy talking about mobility in our sister Cisco mobility blog.
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]]>Comunicaciones son el negocio de Cisco y la capacidad de comunicar en múltiples idiomas es imprescindible a operar en el mercado global. Aunque muchas personas fuera de los EEUU hablen inglés a realizar el negocio, no que muchos norteamericanos hablan múltiples idiomas. Soy dicho que en algún punto en el futuro no demasiado lejano la red podrá hacer el traducir para nosotros tiempo real sobre la infraestructura inteligente de IP. Es decir, usted hablará, dirá Chino Mandarines en un fin de su teléfono y la persona en el otro fin, que es un orador español, oirá español en su fin del teléfono o sistema de TelePresence. Piense en las implicaciones para el comercio y para hacer el mundo un lugar más plano trabajar y vivir. Ciertamente será inmenso para el negocio del viaje y el turismo. Quizá para paz de mundo también. ¿Fui yo demasiado lejos? ¿La red nos traerá paz de mundo? Bueno, quizá un poco demasiado lejos.
Sin embargo, yo todavía espero el día de puede decir más que "La Cerveza, por favor" y para ser comprendido en español lugares parlantes.
La traducción en español es del FreeTranslation com.
]]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Communications is Cisco's business and the ability to communicate in multiple languages is imperative to operating in the global marketplace. Although many people outside of the U.S. speak English in conducting business, not that many Americans speak multiple languages. I am told that at some point in the not too distant future the network will be able to do the translating for us real time over intelligent IP infrastructure. In other words, you will speak, say Mandarin Chinese on one end of your phone and the person on the other end, who is a Spanish speaker, will hear Spanish on her end of the phone...or TelePresence system. Think of the implications for trade and for making the world a flatter place to work and live. It will certainly be huge for the travel and tourism business. Maybe for world peace as well. Did I go too far? The network will bring us world peace? Okay, maybe a bit too far.
However, I'm still looking forward to the day of being able to say more than "La Cerveza, por favor" and being understood in Spanish speaking locales.
Translation into Spanish is from FreeTranslation.com.
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