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Cisco’s Top Execs On Plans To Aggressively Grow Subscriptions By 2025
by Gina Narcisi
Cisco has been on a mission to become a software company in recent years and the tech giant is now aiming for sales from subscriptions to make up half of its revenue by fiscal 2025. Here‘s what Cisco’s CEO, CFO, and executive leadership team said about its plans to further subscriptions.
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Zoomtopia 2021: 7 Zoom Features Coming Soon To A Meeting Near You
by Gina Narcisi
From partnerships with Oculus for a virtual reality-based meeting experience, to integrations with third-party collaboration vendors like Cisco Webex and security updates, here are seven Zoom products and features coming to the platform later this year.
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Sustainable Tech: 5 IT Giants Lowering Their Carbon Footprint
by Gina Narcisi
From slashing carbon emissions to renewable energy investments and responsible water usage, here’s what five IT leaders are doing right now to combat climate change.
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Cisco Partner Experience Platform Turns One: What Partners Need To Know
by Gina Narcisi
“We are on this journey to simplify. We want to continue to help our partners simplify the business activity and that they aren’t spending too much time on things that are redundant because we do know that time is money,” Cisco’s José van Dijk tells CRN on the one-year-old Cisco Partner Experience Platform (PXP).
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5 Big Things To Know About Comcast’s Masergy Acquisition
by Gina Narcisi
In a blockbuster deal announced Wednesday, telecom giant Comcast acquired hybrid networking player Masergy. Here’s what partners need to know about how the deal.
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Lumen Technologies’ Dave Young On Channel Chief Role And The Carrier’s New Indirect Channel Structure
by Gina Narcisi
‘It takes more than Lumen and a customer to be successful here. It takes Lumen, another company, and customer to find shared success. I really think that was very eye opening to me as we began to talk about why we were putting the organization together,’ Dave Young, Lumen’s new SVP of strategic sales, tells CRN.
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Extreme Networks’ Ed Meyercord On Hitting $1B In Revenue And Battling Cisco For Cloud Networking Dominance
by Gina Narcisi
Extreme Networks is the number two cloud in networking today. That’s because they’re winning deals and ‘raising their batting average’ against the likes of Cisco, as evidenced by record-breaking cloud and revenue growth, according to the company’s CEO Ed Meyercord.
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RootMetrics 5G Report: AT&T Takes Top Honors
by Gina Narcisi
Here’s how the top wireless giants AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon fared when tested on their 5G availability, reliability, speeds, and everyday performance during the first half of 2021.
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Cisco’s Jeetu Patel On Hybrid Work And Creating Equal Opportunities For All Employees
by Gina Narcisi
‘We learned that it is unquestionable that people are able to work remotely and be extremely productive. It can’t be debated anymore because we’ve lived it. So, wouldn’t be unfortunate if, after what we’ve seen over the course of the past 15 months, we just went back to being the way that we were prior to COVID?’ Cisco executive vice president Jeetu Patel tells CRN regarding hybrid work.
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The 10 Biggest 5G News Stories Of 2021 (So Far)
by Gina Narcisi
With 5G-capable devices hitting the market, partnerships between technology and service providers emerging, and carriers aggressively covering the nation with their 5G footprints, 2021 has been the year that 5G has gone from buzzword, to mainstream.
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Norwegian Startup Neat Aims To Take Zoom, Microsoft Teams Meetings ‘To The Next Level’
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We really started this company to take this industry to the next level and really deliver the best experience with Zoom. So we really worked very closely with Zoom on the engineering side, the product development side, as well as the market side, to deliver on that,’ says Neat CEO Simen Teigre.
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Emerging Networking And Unified Communications Vendors To Know In 2021
by Rick Whiting
As part of CRN’s Emerging Vendors for 2021, here are 13 hot networking and unified communications startups, founded in 2015 or later, that solution providers should be aware of.
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Cloud Networking Startup WiteSand Set To Shake Enterprise Networking Out Of ‘The Old Days’
by Gina Narcisi
Entrepreneur Praveen Jain, who has founded and worked for three different tech startups, is back with his new company, WiteSand. The startup is consolidating siloed, premise-based networking tools into a unified cloud service for enterprises and channel partners.
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The Top 10 Telecom Mergers And Acquisitions Of 2021 (So Far)
by Gina Narcisi
From the country’s largest carriers, to the regional players, service providers are prioritizing their core telecom businesses through fiber and infrastructure buys, and divestitures of assets unrelated to connectivity. Here’s 10 of the biggest telecom deals we’ve seen so far this year.
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