High school ICT courses could help fight future skills shortage
Secondary school ICT courses are being promoted as one way of encouraging students into an ICT career.
Secondary school ICT courses are being promoted as one way of encouraging students into an ICT career.
Cisco Systems is teaming up with Cognio on a project to reduce the radio frequency noise in wi-fi networks. Cognio sells wireless LAN spectrum-analysis gear.
Geoff Lawrie, formerly MD of Microsoft New Zealand, has been with Cisco for four months now, but he says the future is clear before him.
The integration of broadband gateways into home networking takes a big leap forward with the recent acquisition by Cisco’s Linksys division of the intellectual property and selected assets of Ashley Laurent, which develops software for DSL gateway devices.
Cisco and Microsoft are sharing details of their partnership on network access control technologies, which will include interoperable products and “out-of-the-box” capabilities in future product releases.
Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers stoked the networking vendor’s love affair with IT investors by pointing to the company’s unified communications strategy and broad product portfolio as a way to sustain growth over the long term.
Auckland-based ISP WorldXChange is jumping on the internet phone bandwagon with its Xnet VFX service, launched at the end of August.
Hewlett-Packard’s services division has signed a deal to use Cisco’s wireless LAN kit —snubbing HP’s own wireless networking products.
Salesforce.com is starting to provide some details about the next version of its hosted CRM (customer relationship management) software, including the product's primary focus, which will be customisation.
Cisco Systems says it has turned the corner in getting service providers to adopt its biggest router.
During his keynote speech AT the Cisco Networkers 2006 conference, the company’s chief executive, John Chambers, predicted that there will be a 200% increase in workloads on corporate networks over the next two years because of increased use of video technology.
Veteran IT industry figure Geoff Lawrie started today as Cisco New Zealand general manager.
Enterprise network professionals can expect changes in how Cisco sells the software that runs its routers and switches over the next few years, the company’s CEO told reporters at Cisco’s Networkers customer conference earlier this month.
The bad blood between Cisco Systems and organisers of the Black Hat conference appears to be a thing of the past.
Lucent spin-off Avaya, the world’s largest internet protocol telephony provider, plans to open a New Zealand office in the next few months, says the company’s Asia-South Pacific managing director, Carlton Taya.