Cisco is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the SMB market and the channel companies that can help the company reach SMB customers.

For those inclined to optimism, the latest developments in the optical networking segment offer something of a mixed bag.

Cisco's $3.4 billion takeover bid for video-conferencing specialist Tandberg looks to be a go.

A joint venture between Cisco, the Department of Defense and Intelsat reached a major milestone with the launch of the Intelsat 14 satellite, which contains an Internet router designed for the rigors of operation in space.

As Congress debates legislation to improve cybersecurity, one problematic idea that appears to have gained some traction is developing a national certification program for cybersecurity professionals.

Earlier this month, Cisco announced a slew of new products aimed at the red-hot communications and collaboration segment.

No surprise here: Cisco is tops in the content security segment, according to Infonetics Research.

Researchers say that shops aren't looking to fill specific jobs as much as they are trying to stock up on specific IT skill sets.

The surprise bid to acquire 3Com promises to give HP a stronger portfolio of datacenter-grade networking products as it looks to take on Cisco.

Cisco's announcement of a new hosted e-mail service is causing high-pressure rumblings in the cloud computing space.

Big-time players and occasional partners Cisco, EMC and VMware on Tuesday kicked off a new Virtual Computing Environment "coalition" to promote datacenter virtualization and private cloud deployments.

The good news for Cisco and other prominent players is that the VoIP segment continues to buck an otherwise downward trend in the broader communications and telephony segments.

Analysts were generally high on Cisco's $2.9 billion acquisition of mobile packet core specialist Starent, which they say gives Cisco instant credibility in the market for Evolved Packet Core switching software.

Cisco last week unveiled its second-generation Integrated Services Router (ISR) Generation 2, or G2 for short.

Microsoft and BroadSoft will promote their Hosted Unified Communications (UC) product at a BroadSoft event later this month.

The first test specifications for IPv6 compliance have been released for public comment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The American National Standards Institute last week made official the accreditation of two of Microsoft's professional certification titles.

Cisco this week partnered with SaaS pioneer Salesforce.com to promote a combined customer relationship management (CRM) and contact center offering with a cloud-oriented twist.

The latest carrier Ethernet market research must be music to the ears of Cisco: Market watchers estimate that carriers will spend a cumulative $146 billion over the next half-decade.

Organizations running standalone Fibre Channel-based Storage Area Networks may be able to reduce the amount of cabling snaking through their datacenters, thanks to an emerging converged network protocol called Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).