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Polycom takes lead in APAC videoconferencing market

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Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) saw strong growth in the APAC videoconferencing equipment market in the fourth quarter, enough so that it swept past Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) to take a six percentage point lead for the year, according to new research.

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Cisco owns carrier infrastructure market; Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent fight for 2nd

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) moved past Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) in terms of carrier infrastructure market share in the fourth quarter of 2011, a new study says, only the second time in the past four years Alcatel-Lucent has pulled ahead into second…

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Alteva, Parallels partner on hosted VoIP service push

Unified communications vendor Alteva is partnering with Parallels, which is best known for its virtualization services, to provide customers access to a turn-key hosted VoIP white label solution.
Alteva, which recently was acquired by Warwick Valley Te…

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Study: Single-vendor network has operational edge

Customers want a simple, scalable network that’s safe, reliable and easy to administer, says a new report from research firm Deloitte Consulting.
The new study, which focused on enterprises with between 2,000 and 10,000 users, found that cost tended to…

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Rogers rolls out ‘One Number,’ a UC solution for consumers

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Canadian cable company Rogers Communications, which also happens to be the largest mobile provider north of the border, has rolled out its One Number service, offering consumers a single number for all their communications needs.

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BT takes deeper dive with Cisco TelePresence

Telepresence continues to gain speed as more operators work on inter-carrier agreements that extend the technology beyond their sometimes-limited islands.
Now, BT, which earlier this month signed a deal with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) to make sure their Cisco …

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Holiday publishing update

FierceEnterpriseCommunications will not publish Feb. 20, 2012 in observance of the Presidents Day holiday. Publication will resume Tuesday, Feb. 21.–Jim

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Looking at cloud business models

With the popularity of cloud services building among enterprises and SMBs, how a cloud provider implements its services for a customer is becoming a bigger issue, and one that has to be answered early in the process. Article

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Cisco wants EU to re-examine Skype-Microsoft deal

Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) is asking a European court to take another look at the EU’s approval of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, seeking to have regulators force the VoIP provider to work with products like Cisco’s videoconfer…

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J2 Global makes 3rd acquisition of 2012, buying UK-based Zimo

Cloud service provider j2 Global Communications (Nasdaq: JCOM) has acquired Zimo Communications, the provider of Numberstore cloud voice services. Terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed, and the financial impact to Los Angeles-based j2 Global is …

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