News@Cisco: Features
The latest feature stories from News@Cisco
- IP Phones Give Island Resort A 'Connected' Room with a View
December 18, 2007 Business Challenge Sonora Resort, located on Sonora Island, just off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, is renowned as a salmon fishing and wildlife paradise. In recent years the resort has added conference and spa facilities, helping it achieve five-star status. It caters to a high-end clientele seeking to "get away from it all" without losing all the conveniences of modern-day life, such as Internet access and telephony service. The resort is ... - UN, Cisco and Google Create Pioneering Website to Help Spotlight the Millennium Development Goals
On November 1, 2007, as part of a global campaign known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations (UN), Google and Cisco unveiled MDG Monitor, a pioneering online site that tracks progress towards these eight important global goals, including decreasing global poverty by 2015. Cisco and Google partnered to create the unique application, which ... - Cisco's 21S Initiative Marks Two Successful Years of Helping U.S. Gulf Coast Schools Post-Katrina
December 17, 2007 News@Cisco Staff Writer The 21st Century Schools (21S) Initiative, which marked its second anniversary in October, has much to celebrate these days. 21S Fellows (from left) Shawna Darling, Greg Mintel, Kevin Serveau, Karen Kelley, Mary de Wysocki, Horacio ... - The Power of the Network Helps Children of U.S. Servicemen and Women Abroad Keep Up with Schooling
The success of any military operation is often dependent on an army's ability to get equipment, reinforcements and supplies to the right place on time. Within the United States Department of Defense (DoD), however, computer networks supplied by vendors such as Cisco Systems, Inc, are helping to deliver another precious commodity: education to the dependents of military members stationed in foreign countries ... - The Complexity of Simplicity
December 13, 2007 Imagine being tasked with consolidating 11 agency data centers into one, without interrupting the computing services to 120 agencies, boards and commissions serving over 45,000 state employees. Mark Reyer, data center administrator for the State of Oregon, doesn't have to imagine it-he lives it. Over a few years, the State of Oregon took the state from a complex distribution of independent state agencies with their own networks, data centers, and backup systems ... - Data Center Consolidation at the State of Oregon
Representative Chuck Riley is Chair of the Government Accountability and Information Technology in the Oregon House of Representatives. As such, he had oversight authority for the Computing and Networking Infrastructure Consolidation (CNIC) project that has now become the Oregon State Data Center. Rep. Riley spoke to News@Cisco about the goals and benefits of the project from the user side. What are the goals and objectives the Legislature has for the Data ... - Telcos Tuning In to IPTV
The picture for IPTV is coming into focus. After a long wait Internet protocol television has passed its first technical hurdles and is proving itself in real-world deployments. But despite eagerness for what many view as the culmination of modern multimedia networks, IPTV still has a ways to go before it can claim title as the mother of all communications infrastructures. Despite how ambitious ... - Cisco C-Scape 2007
Cisco C-Scape 2007 December 11th-12th, 2007 Cisco's C-Scape 2007 is a thought-provoking industry event where the analyst and press communities, as well as other influencers and ... - Unified Communications Helps Manage Home Healthcare Franchises
December 11, 2007 Nurse Next Door is a Vancouver-headquartered business that provides in-home care services on a franchise model. These services range from companionship to complex medical and palliative care. For founders John DeHart and Ken Sim, the genesis of Nurse Next Door grew out of personal experience and frustration with the lack of consistent and comprehensive in-home care services. Network Solution "During pregnancy, my wife was confined to bed ... - Cisco Partner GET Drives Technology Deployment for World's Largest Truck Stop
December 11, 2007 The words "truck stop" may not conjure up the image of a technology-forward operation, yet Iowa 80, which owns and operates the world's largest truckstop, is pushing the technology envelope in its market. When it opened in 1964, the Iowa 80 Truckstop was a typical truck stop: a small building with two diesel pumps, a lube bay, and a tiny restaurant where tired drivers could get a cup of coffee and a stack of pancakes. But as the Interstate highway system expanded, ... - A Global Network of Possibilities
In late October, Ingrid Salloum and 19 others who represent Lebanon's brightest young people returned to their country after participating in six-month internships with leading companies across the United States. They return home with enhanced business skills, new contacts and a renewed passion and faith in themselves and the many possibilities before them to help their nation recover from its recent turbulent ... - Yvon Le Roux of Cisco Previews the 2007 Cisco Public Sector Summit at Nobel Week
December 10, 2007 There is a buzz in the public sector. Government departments worldwide are feeling empowered to apply the lessons learned in the wider Web 2.0 world to the delivery of citizen services. Far from being bureaucratic and arduous, today's public sector processes are increasingly designed to be online, on-demand and on target to reduce time, cost and effort for users and government departments alike. This trend that has been years in the making, ...