{"id":23162,"date":"2010-09-28T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2016-06-17T15:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:07:17","slug":"cisco-skype-video-telepresence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/cisco-skype-video-telepresence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco to Unveil Skype Video Solution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23222\" title=\"cisco_skype\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2010\/09\/cisco_skype.gif\" alt=\"cisco_skype\" width=\"550\" height=\"125\" \/><br \/>\nAbout a month ago, on the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/andyabramson.blogs.com\/voipwatch\/2010\/08\/skype-to-go-public.html\">Skype&#8217;s IPO announcement<\/a>, the industry was a buzz with rumors that Cisco was in talks to purchase Skype. Birthed by the ever in tune sleuth&#8217;s at <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/08\/29\/cisco-may-be-making-a-run-for-skype\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> the rumor had some legs, getting play from all of the major tech sources and even the likes of the Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>With all of the synergies between the two companies an <a href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/skype-cisco-acquisition\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'acquisition seemed plausible');\">acquisition seemed plausible<\/a>, but when news surfaced as to the valuation Skype was looking for, an acquisition seemed unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>In the end most chalked it up to mere speculation. Including myself.<\/p>\n<p>But then <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/cisco-idUKN2710141220100927\">I came across this Retuers piece<\/a> and it got me thinking that maybe there was something to the Cisco &#8211; Skype rumors.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece it mentions that next week Cisco will be unveiling a new consumer product. The event invite (below) features smiling faces and the tagline, &#8220;Let&#8217;s get together&#8221; leading one to believe Cisco is set to announce a new video product.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be one designed to work with Skype? Skype <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelinsider.com\/c\/a\/Messaging-and-Collaboration\/LifeSize-Passport-Brings-Video-Conferencing-to-Masses-162852\">cooperation with Lifesize<\/a> last year was met with much fan fare.<\/p>\n<p>With both companies looking to reap the benefits from the growing interest in video calling from consumers and prosumers alike it&#8217;s not that far of a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Given Cisco&#8217;s purchases of Flip (handheld video), Scientific Atlanta (set top boxes) and Tandberg, they&#8217;ve got all the ingredients to produce one heck of a home and small office video telepresence solution.<\/p>\n<p>Except for the underlying transport mechanism. Something that <a href=\"\/skype\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Skype');\"\n>Skype<\/a> can deliver today.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors around the announcement have this soon-to-be-announced <a title=\"cisco\" href=\"\/manufacturer\/cisco\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Cisco');\">Cisco<\/a> device retailing for around $500 which would make it a disruptive video\/telepresence solution for the small business and still within reach of tech savvy consumers.<\/p>\n<p>And to boot, an impactful partnership with Cisco could be just the type of juice Skype needs to gain additional investor confidence as they prepare for their public offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, on the heels of Skype&#8217;s IPO announcement, the industry was a buzz with rumors that Cisco was in talks to purchase Skype. Birthed by the ever in tune sleuth&#8217;s at TechCrunch the rumor had some legs, getting play from all of the major tech sources and even the likes of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184443,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions\/184443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}