The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States or simply America, is a country comprising 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles, it is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe. Most of the country is located in central North America between Canada and Mexico. With an estimated population of over 327 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City.
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley. Cisco develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as OpenDNS, WebEx, Jabber and Jasper, Cisco specializes into specific tech markets, such as Internet of Things (IoT), domain security and energy management. Cisco is incorporated in California.
Webline Communications was founded by Pasha Roberts and Firdaus Bhathena when they were students at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge MA. Pasha, Firdaus and Webline won the prestigious MIT 50K Entrepreneurial Business contest which provided seed money to begin the company. After winning this contest, Pasha put his MIT studies on hold to take full advantage of the seed money and focus on making the company financially successful. Pasha is widely credited for the innovation, technology design, architecture, infrastructure and technology decisions around the products. Pasha returned to complete his master's degree at MIT Sloan. Firdaus is credited with the sales and marketing of these solutions into business accounts.
Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding or seed capital, is a form of securities offering in which an investor invests capital in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company. The term seed suggests that this is a very early investment, meant to support the business until it can generate cash of its own, or until it is ready for further investments. Seed money options include friends and family funding, seed venture capital funds, angel funding, and crowdfunding.
Several marquis customers including Fidelity, General Motors, Oracle, Toys "R" Us, and internet retailer Lands End embraced and implemented important Webline solutions.
Webline was sold to Cisco Systems in 1999 and integrated into Cisco's software / call center strategy.
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Cisco Videoscape is a former Israeli development group that was acquired by Cisco, which develops software for the pay TV industry. NDS Group was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by Cisco in 2012 before being sold back to the private equity company Permira in 2018 for US$1 billion. The company is currently headquartered in Staines, United Kingdom.
Long Reach Ethernet (LRE) was a proprietary networking protocol marketed by Cisco Systems, intended to support multi-megabit performance over telephone-grade unshielded twisted pair wiring over distances up to 5,000 feet (1.5 km). Supporting such distance ranges, LRE is technically classified a Metropolitan area network (MAN) technology. Technically the protocol was similar to very-high-bitrate digital subscriber line (VDSL), practically Ethernet over VDSL (EoVDSL).
Leonard X. Bosack is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology and services. He was awarded the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for co-founding Cisco Systems and pioneering and advancing the commercialization of routing technology and the profound changes this technology enabled in the computer industry.
Scientific Atlanta, Inc. is a Georgia, United States-based manufacturer of cable television, telecommunications, and broadband equipment. Scientific Atlanta was founded in 1951 by a group of engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was purchased by Cisco Systems in 2005 for $6.9 billion after Cisco received antitrust clearance for the purchase. The Cisco acquisition of Scientific Atlanta was ranked in the top 10 of largest technology acquisitions in history and was Cisco's largest acquisition to date. Prior to the purchase, Scientific Atlanta had been a Fortune 500 company and was one of the top 25 largest corporations in Georgia.
BAE Systems Electronic Systems (ES) is one of three operating groups of BAE Systems Inc., the North American subsidiary of the British global defence contractor BAE Systems Plc.
Cisco Certifications are the list of the Certifications offered by Cisco Systems. There are four or five(path to network designers) levels of certification: Entry (CCENT), Associate (CCNA/CCDA), Professional (CCNP/CCDP), Expert (CCIE/CCDE) and recently Architect, as well as nine different paths for the specific technical field; Routing & Switching, Design, Industrial Network, Network Security, Service Provider, Service Provider Operations, Storage Networking, Voice, Datacenter and Wireless. There are also a number of the specialist technician, sales, Business, data center certifications, CCAI certified instructor.
Madge Networks NV was a networking technology company founded by Robert Madge, and is best known for its work with Token Ring. It was a global leader and pioneer of high-speed networking solutions in the mid-1990s, and also made significant contributions to technologies such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Ethernet.
Silver Lake is an American private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in technology, technology-enabled and related industries. Founded in 1999, the firm is one of the largest technology investors in the world and notable for participating in club deals. Among its investment holdings are Broadcom, Dell, Alibaba, GoDaddy, The Madison Square Garden Company, William Morris Endeavor, IMG Worldwide, Avaya, Sabre Holdings, Skype, Symantec, GLG, Seagate Technology and NASDAQ. Silver Lake is headquartered in Menlo Park with offices in San Mateo, Cupertino, New York, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Unified communications (UC) is a business and marketing concept describing the integration of enterprise communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence information, voice, mobility features, audio, web & video conferencing, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), desktop sharing, data sharing, call control and speech recognition with non-real-time communication services such as unified messaging. UC is not necessarily a single product, but a set of products that provides a consistent unified user interface and user experience across multiple devices and media types.
Luxtera Inc., a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, is a semiconductor company that uses silicon photonics technology to build complex electro-optical systems in a production silicon CMOS process.
Eugene Lee is an American businessman based in Palo Alto, California.
Unify, is an Atos SE company.
Michelangelo "Mike" Volpi is an Italian-American businessman and venture capitalist. He co-founded Index Ventures’ San Francisco office with Danny Rimer in 2009 and was previously Chief Strategy Officer of Cisco Systems during the company’s prominent growth era, acquiring over 70 companies in less than five years. In 2007 he left Cisco and became Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Sequoia Capital. A few months later, he was appointed CEO of Joost, and in 2009 he became General Partner at Index Ventures.
Yasser ElKadyياسر القاضي was the Minister of Communications and Information Technology in Egypt between 19 September 2015 and 14 June 2018. ElKady has been in the IT and Telecom industry for over 25 years with solid experience in strategic planning, technology integration, business development and organizational transformation.
VOSS Solutions is a British-founded multinational unified communications and collaboration corporation, headquartered in Richardson, Texas, that provides service delivery and management software. It developed a real-time automated unified communications and collaboration service delivery platform called VOSS-4-UC.
BroadSoft, Inc. is a global communication software and service provider that was purchased by Cisco Systems in 2018. It partners with more than 600 carriers and 25 of the world’s 30 largest service providers in 80 countries. The company provides the building blocks for service providers to build cloud-based communications services such as voice, video, web conferencing and now team messaging and contextual services. BroadSoft was founded in 1998 and completed its initial public offering public in 2010, and is headquartered in Maryland.
Jonathan Rosenberg is a technologist noted for his work in IP communications. Network World has referred to him as "a pioneer [in] the development of the SIP protocol", and he was included in the 2002 TR35 list of the world's top under-35 innovators, as published by MIT Technology Review.
Telcobuy.com is a technology and supply chain solutions company founded by David Steward and Jim Kavanaugh in 1999. Telcobuy provides technology and supply chain solutions. The company mitigates and manages security risks for large public and private organizations, enterprise networking solutions for the data center, and is a reseller of information technology.
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