Are you attending Cisco Live 2018 in Orlando? Have you been wondering what bands will be performing at this year’s Customer Appreciation Event? Well, look no further, we’ve got the information you’re looking for! Here is the Band Line-Up for 2018: Some additional Cisco Live updates: Social Media Hub and Contests: Tweetups: Located in Hall C Atrium area: Arrival Tweetup – Sunday 5:45- 7:15 with the photo at 6:10 Farewell Tweetup – Thursday 4:30 – 5:30 following the Guest Keynote with the photo at 4:40 at the Cisco…
We just got back from Cisco’s Collaboration Summit 2018 in beautiful Phoenix Arizona, and well, there’s a lot of new and exciting news in the Cisco Collaboration story! First, a shout out to Cisco for putting together what was easily the best Cisco Conference we’ve been to, including numerous Cisco Lives. Sure, there was no concert or anything crazy like a typical Cisco Live experience, but it was intimate (about 1000 attendees) and a beautiful venue, and Cisco just went all out to make sure participants were comfortable,…
Cisco Spark Hybrid Calling Improvements: Hello fellow Collaboration enthusiasts, if you landed here looking for Cisco Live 2018 scoops, please skip ahead to the sections below, we’re starting this blog with an update on Cisco Spark Hybrid Calling! Was your first experience with Cisco Spark Hybrid Calling not so great? Like many new and trend-setting products, when Cisco Spark Hybrid Call Services became available a couple of years ago now, it had an inauspicious start. There were several issues at play. Let’s be fair though, the complications of…
Byteworks recently attended the Cisco Collaboration VT 2017 in San Jose, California at the Cisco Headquarters and we came away extremely excited about CRS 12.X, Spark, SDN, and overall, the direction of Cisco Collaboration as a whole. There’s a lot that we came away from seeing that we simply can’t talk about yet, but we are definitely excited for our legacy on-premise Cisco Collaboration customers and our Cloud customers. Cisco is putting great effort into modernizing their portfolio and targeting up and coming competitors to remain the premier…
There’s only a couple of weeks remaining before Cisco Live 2017 #CLUS, once again hosted in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada! Here are some things to know before you go! Dates: June 25th – 29 2017 Location: Mandalay Bay Convention Center Programs: IT Management Program, Cisco Empowered Women’s Network Program, Partner Days, DevNet, World of Solutions, Keynotes, Conference Sessions, Attendee Meals and Main Registration MGM Grand. Programs: Testing Center, Labs & Technical Seminars, Attendee Meals and Satellite Registration Cisco has a lot of new things in store for this year,…
The much-anticipated Cisco Collaboration Endpoint 8.2.1 software for DX 80 and DX 70 devices is now available (as of 7/8), and after a couple of consistent weeks of testing, we wanted to write up some quick feedback. Quick recap: The Cisco TelePresence DX line until now, used Android-based software that has been, to say the least, a bit unstable. The primary issues our customers have reported include random reboots, phone call freezes, freezing during screen-share, and all sorts of video and display issues when connected as an extra…
In a previous Collaboration blog a couple of years ago, we here at Byteworks documented some of the wonderful ups and downs we ran into during the early days of deploying Cisco’s Collaboration Edge architecture. You can read about all the fun we had here, but first a little refresher on what the Edge architecture does: If you are a company that currently uses Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Unity Connection and the rest of the on-premise IP Telephony system, (aka Business Edition 6000 or 7000) and you want…
Cisco has been going full steam ahead in the Collaboration market lately. It started late last year by making big news with the purchase of UK’s Acano, which was lead by former Cisco folks and sold for 700 Million. Combine this with Rowan Trollope’s complete redo and streamlining of the video product line; taking the overall product set to fewer skus, but much higher quality and interoperability.. Speaking of Trollope, what a start he has had at Cisco. Mr. Trollope has been the leader of the Collaboration unit…
As a Cisco Partner, of course I will say that I have a special spot in my heart for most things Cisco. I consider them to be an industry leader, and while I personally focus on Collaboration products and tools, in my past life on the operations side of IT, I used Cisco products for many verticals within IT. That being said, as an “IT Consultant”, I would never choose Cisco products over another, if I found after research and testing that another vendor’s product works better. In…
Cisco recently released version 11.0(1) of their IP Telephony applications, specifically Communications Manager (formerly CallManager, CUCM), IM and Presence (CIMP), and Unity Connection (CUC). While we would normally stay away from a “dot zero” release, and encourage waiting till .5, we have been testing 11.0 and have found some very useful new features and enhancements that will have some companies wanting to take the plunge and go ahead and upgrade. We’ve compiled these here and while some may not be worth upgrading right now for, some are definitely…
