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Cisco Top Stories

Innovative Power of the Network: Helping Transform How the World Tackles Environmental Challenges
June 24, 2008 By Jenny Carless Climate change and other environmental issues are top of mind in companies around the globe. And while the will to make necessary changes certainly exists, finding the means to that end is not easy. Information technology (IT) can have a transformative ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Innovative+Power+of+the+Network:+Helping+Transform+How+the+World+Tackles+Environmental+Challenges" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Upgraded Network Helps Health Centre Reach Underserved Community
June 24, 2008 Challenge Located in downtown Toronto, Sherbourne Health Centre offers primary healthcare, counseling, support, outreach, health promotion, and education to the diverse communities in its neighbourhood. Offering clinical service since 2003, the centre has worked to bridge healthcare gaps that go unfilled by other healthcare programs. Sherbourne places special emphasis on serving local residents; homeless and underhoused individuals; the lesbian, gay, ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Upgraded+Network+Helps+Health+Centre+Reach+Underserved+Community" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Tackling the Global Shortage of Skilled Network Engineers
June 24, 2008 By Jenny Carless Cisco has taken another important step in its ongoing efforts to accelerate the development of technical talent across the globe with two new major initiatives, announced today at Cisco Live: The Cisco Learning Network and three new Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA®) concentrations. The ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Tackling+the+Global+Shortage+of+Skilled+Network+Engineers" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Video Growth Offers Challenges, Opportunities for Stewards of the Internet
June 17, 2008 by Charles Waltner The world is binging on digital video and someone has to pay the tab. That's the big issue facing the companies that run the Internet. While bandwidth demandsdriven in large part by the ascent of online video and other digitized contentsurges, the companies that own the Internet's pipes are hard-pressed to find the best ways to capitalize on this phenomenal growth. In short, they are having to ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Video+Growth+Offers+Challenges,+Opportunities+for+Stewards+of+the+Internet" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Video Ready for Prime Time Business Communications
June 10, 2008 Cisco Systems has a problem. But for Marthin De Beer, leader of the company's Emerging Technologies group, it's a good one to have. Cisco TelePresence, the new "as if you are there" video meeting technology, is so popular at the company that it is difficult for employees to book time in one of the networking giant's hundreds of virtual conference rooms throughout the world. But for De Beer and Cisco, that just goes with the territory when you're pioneering a new way ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Video+Ready+for+Prime+Time+Business+Communications" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Yvon Le Roux of Cisco Looks Ahead to the 2008 Public Sector Summit at Nobel, Ponders Role of Web 2.0
June 9, 2008 What will the public sector of the future look like? For years, the annual Cisco® Public Services Summit at Nobel Week in Stockholm has been providing clues, offering guests a unique sample of some of the most advanced perspectives on government, education and healthcare innovation. <p class="caption" style=" ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Yvon+Le+Roux+of+Cisco+Looks+Ahead+to+the+2008+Public+Sector+Summit+at+Nobel,+Ponders+Role+of+Web+2.0" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Cisco IBSG Uncovers How Technology is Leading to Profound and Positive Societal Change
June 9, 2008 By Mike Stone It sounds like a utopia: a society where citizens collaborate freely and overcome the limitations of monolithic bureaucracy and top-down government. This "Connected Republic" view of the world, however, is now close to becoming a ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Cisco+IBSG+Uncovers+How+Technology+is+Leading+to+Profound+and+Positive+Societal+Change" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Cisco Serves as Visionary Sponsor for the 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge
June 2, 2008 By Jenny Carless Photo Courtesy of Adrienne Pao and Robin Lasser, Ice Queen:Glacial Retreat Dress Tent, 2008 When we're all connected, great things happen. When art and digital culture connect, the result is the <a href= ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Cisco+Serves+as+Visionary+Sponsor+for+the+01SJ+Global+Festival+of+Art+on+the+Edge" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Cisco Networking Academy 'F-email' Project Teaches IT Skills and More to Women in Three Countries
By Mike Stone June 2, 2008 A small project linked to the Cisco® Networking Academy® is making a big difference to the fortunes of women in Central and Eastern Europe. Although still in its first year, the F-email project has made a significant difference to 40 women in Hungary, Serbia and Turkey by ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Cisco+Networking+Academy+F-email+Project+Teaches+IT+Skills+and+More+to+Women+in+Three+Countries" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Cisco Establishes New Vision for Managing Mobile Business Communications
May 28, 2008 by Charles Waltner Corporations are having a hard time being anytime, anywhere. That mantra of mobile computing sure sounds good on paper, but a rapidly evolving array of nascent devices, standards, and technologies is making things tough for the people that need to manage business communications operations. <img width="372" height="315" alt="Unified Network Architecture Diagram" src="2008/ekits/ ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Cisco+Establishes+New+Vision+for+Managing+Mobile+Business+Communications" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Back to Basic Training
May 27, 2008 By Bill Roberts A freak accident during a hellish sandstorm in Iraq shattered Gorman Penn's life, but the Navy Seabee didn't know how shattered it was until six months later. While recovering in a Naval hospital in San Diego, Penn learned of his impending medical discharge from the Navy. He didn't see that coming ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Back+to+Basic+Training" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
A New, Holistic Approach to Enterprise Security Aligns Business and IT
May 19, 2008 By Howard Baldwin In November 1984, there was an inflection point in the progression of technology. To DOS 3.1, Microsoft added network support. For the first time, PCs were thought of not as standalone machines, but as key participants in corporate computing. ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=A+New,+Holistic+Approach+to+Enterprise+Security+Aligns+Business+and+IT" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Cisco and Employees Provide Support for Victims of Myanmar Cyclone and those affected by the China Earthquake
Our deepest thoughts and sympathies go out to those impacted by the devastation caused by the cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in the Sichuan province of China. As a multinational company, we believe it's our responsibility to help local and global communities, particularly in a time of disaster. In addition to providing financial assistance from the Cisco Foundation, ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Cisco+and+Employees+Provide+Support+for+Victims+of+Myanmar+Cyclone+and+those+affected+by+the+China+Earthquake" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Doing the Right Thing Through Education
May 14, 2008 By Leigh Bailey Cisco's commitment to socially responsible programs is deeply engrained in the company's operating philosophy, and has its roots in Cisco's earliest days. The company's education initiatives are a cornerstone of our CSR activities, and represent some of the company's most successful and enduring programs. <img width="176" height="212" alt="Cisco's educational initiatives" src="../ts_images/ ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Doing+the+Right+Thing+Through+Education" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Cisco TelePresence Offers U.S. Military Families A New Way to Reach Their Loved Ones in Iraq
May 8, 2008 By Betsey Flood, News@Cisco Lisa Alexander, a petite brunette with carefully groomed hair waited expectantly outside a special room in the Temecula, California, Wal-Mart store. Married to Dennis Alexander, a U.S. Marine corporal stationed near Fallujah, one of the most violence-prone areas in Iraq, Lisa hadn't seen her husband for many months. They had been able to speak on the phone and send emails but this would be the first time she would see him. ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Cisco+TelePresence+Offers+U.S.+Military+Families+A+New+Way+to+Reach+Their+Loved+Ones+in+Iraq" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Mayo Clinic Sees Efficiency as Major Mobility Benefit
May 7, 2008 Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hanneman There is nothing new with the use of mobile solutions in the healthcare industry. Hospitals have used it to communicate and submit information for quite some time. However, as mobile technologies evolve, hospitals and healthcare providers are seeing a bigger return on their ...<img src="http://www.cisco.com/swa/j/zag2_vs_log1.asc?Log=1&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Top+Stories&vs_p=Mayo+Clinic+Sees+Efficiency+as+Major+Mobility+Benefit" border="0" height="0" width="0" />
Firm Lowers Data Center and WAN Costs : Optimizing the Data Center While Lowering Costs
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The First American Corporation : Advantage Through Virtualization and Collaboration
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BT Innovation: A .8 Billion Network : The World's First National All-IP Network
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Transforming Business Customer Experiences : Enabling Unique IP-Based Business Services
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