Cisco Makes Big Expansion in Video Conference Technology with Tandberg Purchase

Cisco is greatly expanding its capabilities in the video conferencing business with the acquisition of Norway's Tandberg for $3 billion in cash, in a deal announced earlier today.

The big trend to watch here is that expensive corporate teleconferencing will become less expensive and more pervasive. Earlier this year, we visited Cisco's San Jose office to speak with Ken Wirt about plans to extend teleconferencing services and products to consumers.

This is a great interview about what to expect in person-to-person high quality video which is far higher quality than IM video or Skype.

We expect to see high quality, accessible live video for consumers to be part of the media landscape before too long.

Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

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I have read the article which tells about the Cisco system and their working formation.Its the good thing that the big company the cisco system making the expansion by making the deal with the Tandberg for the video conference.There are less number of the company which are providing the services on the tele-conferncing.I want to know certain reviews regarding the current topics.

Posted by: diät pillen | Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 01:34 AM

I think HP buys Polycom next: http://www.sramanamitra.com/2009/10/01/cisco-buys-tandberg-hp-to-buy-polycom/

Basically, in the video conferencing market (all the way from desktop video to telepresence and other immersive solutions, and everything in between like plasma screens, etc.), the 2 leaders are Polycom (~40%) and Tandberg (~40%). Cisco, HP, Avaya, Nortel are all bit players in comparison.
Both Polycom and Tandberg have good interoperability with other standards based systems, which Cisco, for example, doesn’t. Cisco-Cisco works fine. Cisco-others doesn’t. That’s why they lost the ~$45m Regus account.

Posted by: Sramana Mitra | Thursday, October 01, 2009 at 12:10 PM