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• Cisco taps Australian expertise for global venture

  Cisco Systems has turned to Australia for assistance in enabling its vision of “intelligent urbanisation”.

• Cisco is not ruling out layoffs

  Cisco is not ruling out layoffs as it grapples with the worldwide economic downturn.

• Building buy for Cisco

  Cisco Systems has purchased Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence, a provider of middleware that enables businesses to integrate building infrastructure and IT applications over an IP network.

• Report: Cisco to elbow into server fray

  Enterprise IT shops might soon get another option for virtualizing their entire datacenter.

• New Cisco device video-optimises networks

  Cisco has unveiled the first in a series of enterprise products designed to intelligently process video traffic in a network.

• Cisco shutting down between holidays to save money

  Cisco is reportedly shutting down during the year-end holiday season to save money, the first time it has done so in its history.

• Cisco to buy IM vendor

  Cisco Systems plans to buy instant messaging platform vendor Jabber, a move that could heighten its battle with Microsoft over the collaboration and office communications market.

• Kiwi broadband not sufficient for new web applications

  Broadband speeds in the UK, Italy and Australia and many other countries are barely keeping pace with the demands of web-based applications and video services, whose bandwidth needs are expected to only rise, according to a new survey.

• Networkers 08: Virtual office to meet cloud computing

  Today's "virtual office" solutions generally require customer-premises equipment (CPE), but the rise of cloud computing-based services will allow people to be "at the office" from any location with an Internet connection, according to Cisco.
  

• Cisco pushes 'network memory' to alleviate bottlenecks

  A Cisco engineer has been recognized for his work on scaling router and switch performance with algorithms he developed at a start-up Cisco acquired three years ago.

• Email buy for Cisco

  Cisco is to buy PostPath, a maker of email and calendaring software, for US$215 million (NZ$308 million).

• West Coast DHB teams for HealthPresence

  Cisco, the West Coast District Health Board (DHB) and Gen-i have announced an agreement to deliver the first global trial of Cisco HealthPresence between two organisations, Buller Health, in Westport, and Grey Base Hospital, in Greymouth.

• Cisco chief lauds virtual-world technology

  Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers appeared in a virtual press conference in Second Life last week, his avatar dressed in a business suit, where he predicted that virtual world technologies will eventually "explode" in terms of business usage and their impact.

• Cisco unveils mobile app management tool

  Cisco Systems has announced a new networking appliance designed to support mobile applications being deployed over both wired and wireless networks.

• Broadband Kiwis spend 22 hours a week online

  New Zealand broadband users are right up there with the most internet addicted nations in the world, spending on average 22 hours a week online.