GOOGLE'S Unified Tools POSE A THREAT TO CISCO

摘要

Officials at Cisco Systems Inc say they are closely watching Google Inc's aggressive foray onto their unified communications turf and plan to respond quickly by boosting the capabilities of Cisco's offerings. In fact, analysts said Cisco's announcement late last month that it plans to offer at least some pieces of its IP voice technology as a hosted service could be viewed as a direct response to Google's recent move to start limited release of its Web-based Google Voice and Google Wave communications tools. Cisco officials released few details of the company's plan to offer some virtual voice services, though Padmasree Warrior, Cisco's CTO, said they will probably be offered through its service provider customers.