Thursday, March 15. 2007

Cisco's Webex, with Location?

One day after Tellme announced their sale to Microsoft, Cisco announced their own intention to acquired WebEx for 3.2 billion. Are the moves relevant to each other? You betcha. As networks evolve to support all-IP transport, voice, video, and Web applications will increasingly start to converge with each other as features of larger Internet-connected collaboration and communications applications. We already see this today with things like VoIP click-to-call from Web browsers, voice support from IM and email clients, etc. Will location be an added ingredient that provides geographic dimension and contextual computing processes to these blended communications applications? With their WLAN Location Appliance, Cisco could certainly start to bring that together.

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