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New Cisco certifications announced

Calin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:45:09 +0000

Source: https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-5365

As this are quite new to me, I do not have too much to comment on the subject. Cisco Certifies Architect seems to be the new “hit” from Cisco regarding the knowledge and experience that a candidate has to achieve before applying, but also in regarding the amount of money that this will cost. Since I only heard rumors I will not write here the price, but is sure that is not accessible to any individual.

Some excerpt from the source [...]

WebEx Added to Smartphones at Mobile World Congress

Calin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:33:21 +0000

Cisco WebEx became more useful than ever this week with the news that it was being extended to work with a range of business smartphones.

The announcement, at Mobile World Congress, means users will be able to join Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Web and audio conferences on smartphones including the BlackBerry Bold, Curve 8900 and Storm from RIM, the Nokia Eseries and Nseries phones, and the Samsung Blackjack II.

To use, you just launch Cisco WebEx Meeting Center through your smartphone browser and you get [...]

Cisco makes the case for WiMAX at Mobile World Congress

Calin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:30:12 +0000

There is a big buzz at Mobile World Congress this year around Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio area networks. This is a radio access technology which Cisco fully supports and which promises to bring much greater speed and bandwidth to mobile networks.

Hang on, though. This is pretty much what was promised with WiMAX last year. So what has happened to 2008’s great hope for high-speed mobile access?

To help clarify the issue, Brett Galloway, Senior Vice President for the Wireless and Security Technology Group [...]