Comments on: Cisco Buying Starent for $2.9B http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/13/cisco-buying-starent-for-2-9b/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:57:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mikko Kaarela http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/13/cisco-buying-starent-for-2-9b/comment-page-1/#comment-86861 Mikko Kaarela Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:34:42 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=45605#comment-86861 Cisco continues on the Open Innovation track. It is interesting to see how they will ensure competitiveness in the WLAN domain where the recently confirmed 802.11n standard is replacing expensive and inflexible Cable-LAN. This, combined with voice "VoWLAN" services necessitates vastly better Wireless Quality Assurance and capability offer 27x7 monitored Service Level Agreements at reasonable cost. Is e.g. 7signal Cisco's next target or will someone else act quicker? Cisco continues on the Open Innovation track.

It is interesting to see how they will ensure competitiveness in the WLAN domain where the recently confirmed 802.11n standard is replacing expensive and inflexible Cable-LAN. This, combined with voice “VoWLAN” services necessitates vastly better Wireless Quality Assurance and capability offer 27×7 monitored Service Level Agreements at reasonable cost. Is e.g. 7signal Cisco’s next target or will someone else act quicker?

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