Cisco

Cisco, Ericsson, and Fujitsu earn top honors for their efforts in climate solutions, remote collaboration and telecommuting offerings.

Competition is only getting tougher for Cisco as it continues to expand in 30 or so new markets while attempting to maintain growth in its core routing and switching businesses.

Cisco, Microsoft, IBM: They all started somewhere.

Boise State University, the largest university in Idaho, has replaced its aging Cisco Network Registrar software with appliances from BlueCat Networks that it says are easier to manage and less expensive to operate for Domain Name System and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol services.

Henny Penny swapped out its aging Avaya PBXs for Cisco unified communication gear and wound up with a more expensive system that saves money on travel and improves communication with distributors.

Open source is everywhere -- operating systems, application software, development tools. So why not routers, too?

For a year Oklahoma City has operated a 620 square-mile 802.11g wireless network for mobile computer access for the city police and fire departments. As convenient as this Tropos Networks-based meshed 802.11g is, interference problems are significant enough that mobile public-safety units have also been given Sprint mobile cards as a connectivity backup.

Cisco Systems stirred up a hornet's nest among server vendors with the announcement that it was explicitly getting into the blade-based server market.