Apple Teams Up With Cisco

[jos]

The partnership, announced on Monday by Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers and Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook at Cisco’s annual sales meeting in Las Vegas, will make it easier to use iPhones and iPads together with Cisco’s products.

 

For example, iPhone users could click on a calendar appointment, and immediately start a videoconference or Cisco’s Spark chat application, instead of having to pull up each separately. IPhone users’ personal contacts can be integrated with directories on their desk phones. And since workers are increasingly mobile, calls from work colleagues would automatically ring on both the desk phone and iPhone. 

Apple and Cisco are also working on behind-the-scenes networking enhancements. Using a feature called Fast Lane, a videoconference that’s critical to closing a deal can be given more bandwidth priority over YouTube video streams to desktops. Cisco is also developing ways to help companies prevent network slowdowns when Apple releases updates to its iOS software, by storing parts of Apple’s software code so that iPhone owners on Cisco networks won’t have to download it from a far-off data centers.

 

 

 

It feeld like the partnership is against net neutrality. 

 

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-31/apple-teams-up-with-cisco-expanding-corporate-sales-push

[rtpb5642]

 NET NEUTRALITY FTW

[Juanse]

They will now make slow,consumergrade, overpriced routers with a minimalistic design

[Misanthrope]

So Apple is finally attempting to buy their way into the corporate user base? Good for them: there should be more competition for windows.

[Sidiox]

I don't really see how it is against netneutality, since all of it is LAN based.... I could do the same stuff with some QoS rules, YT uses another port then my video conference call software so just give that more bandwidth on that port and you are done...... As for the local storage cache of updates, I'd like for something like that to become common place, I have a 16TB server and a 5MB download, if I could just cache Android, Windows and Linux updates on that in an easy way I'd love it. (You can already do something like that for Windows I believe but I've nver really looked into it)

[Arc_Jester]

They will now make slow,consumergrade, overpriced routers with a minimalistic design

Which apple users will buy up at the drop of a hat.

[Prysin]

Cisco and Apple... the two names that both invoke a ridiculus price tag in their respective category....

 

Whatever their goal is... this is gonna be expensive for us all

[silberdrachi]

You guys are freaking out over something that already exists.

 

Routers already have prioritization orders and especially on high end corporate grade routers that you have in offices. Caching and other features are super important when you are dealing with large office infrastructure or even things like a school network. Wouldn't it be easier to cache that super popular youtube video that everyone is accessing than re-downloading it every .5sec? Dont you want to prioritize skype/webex conversations over that of HTML traffic?

 

Its not like Cisco is implementing this at the ISP level to make iphone get more interwebz fasterz

[MblaZe7run]

I don't really see how it is against netneutality, since all of it is LAN based.... I could do the same stuff with some QoS rules, YT uses another port then my video conference call software so just give that more bandwidth on that port and you are done...... As for the local storage cache of updates, I'd like for something like that to become common place, I have a 16TB server and a 5MB download, if I could just cache Android, Windows and Linux updates on that in an easy way I'd love it. (You can already do something like that for Windows I believe but I've nver really looked into it)

This ^

 

AFAIK, Net Neutrality cannot deal with private LAN infrastructure. There are some rulings that can, such as not having an antenna broadcasting over a certain power, or private networks being able to deauth other users within range from connecting to other private networks (http://boingboing.net/2014/10/03/fcc-fines-marriott-for-jamming.html or jamming as they misleadingly call it. It was not jamming, it was sending deauthorization packets to end user devices trying to use their own personal hotspots, not connecting routers to Marriot's network, which is legal to deauth).

 

This, however, is completely legal and abiding to Net Neutrality as far as I've been able to tell.

[RH00D]

I don't really see how it is against netneutality, since all of it is LAN based.... I could do the same stuff with some QoS rules, YT uses another port then my video conference call software so just give that more bandwidth on that port and you are done...... As for the local storage cache of updates, I'd like for something like that to become common place, I have a 16TB server and a 5MB download, if I could just cache Android, Windows and Linux updates on that in an easy way I'd love it. (You can already do something like that for Windows I believe but I've nver really looked into it)

 

 

You guys are freaking out over something that already exists.

 

Routers already have prioritization orders and especially on high end corporate grade routers that you have in offices. Caching and other features are super important when you are dealing with large office infrastructure or even things like a school network. Wouldn't it be easier to cache that super popular youtube video that everyone is accessing than re-downloading it every .5sec? Dont you want to prioritize skype/webex conversations over that of HTML traffic?

 

Its not like Cisco is implementing this at the ISP level to make iphone get more interwebz fasterz

 

Quoted for truth. You two get it.

 

Honestly I'll be surprised if much comes from this simply because its Apple and Apple has rarely ever given 2 craps about the business/enterprise side of things. Although, if its Cisco that will be doing most of the heavy lifting then maybe it will be good after all.

[jos]

 

 

Its not like Cisco is implementing this at the ISP level to make iphone get more interwebz fasterz

 I was thinking they might ship all routers with this even the ones they sell to ISP... then people living near big business will get slow youtube streaming ...

[Juanse]

Which apple users will buy up at the drop of a hat.

Probably putting their house on mortgage

[warmmilk]

 

 

 

It feeld like the partnership is against net neutrality. 

 

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-31/apple-teams-up-with-cisco-expanding-corporate-sales-push

 

 

what??? neither the quote, nor the article that you linked has a single word about net neutrality...  where the hell are you getting any of that?

[Sidiox]

Quoted for truth. You two get it.

Honestly I'll be surprised if much comes from this simply because its Apple and Apple has rarely ever given 2 craps about the business/enterprise side of things. Although, if its Cisco that will be doing most of the heavy lifting then maybe it will be good after all.

Haha thanks. Maybe though this is their entry into the enterprise market? We'll see. Although this kinda seems like slapping a Apple brand on already existing software and configs for the sake of brand names

[silberdrachi]

Haha thanks. Maybe though this is their entry into the enterprise market? We'll see. Although this kinda seems like slapping a Apple brand on already existing software and configs for the sake of brand names

 

Quoted for truth. You two get it.

 

Honestly I'll be surprised if much comes from this simply because its Apple and Apple has rarely ever given 2 craps about the business/enterprise side of things. Although, if its Cisco that will be doing most of the heavy lifting then maybe it will be good after all.

 

Agreed, this definitely seems like its more like its Cisco doing the work. Apple would basically be providing them protocols and networking traffic information so that Cisco can do the actual work in optimizing the settings. More and more now i see companies giving out iphones/ipads to people (our own company has several in-house for testing, but the company phones some people have are all iphone5s) so it is much more of a motivator for Cisco to slap an "Apple Approved" logo on their next generation of routers.

 

For 99.999999999% of the people this news is nothing at all. Maybe a few IT guys might be interested if their whole office is mac heavy, but even then it still isnt a huge selling point if the hardware doesnt meet your other needs.

[Trik'Stari]

So....one strictly proprietary company teaming up with another.....how is this news?

[Swndlr]

Cisco and Apple... the two names that both invoke a ridiculus price tag in their respective category....

 

Whatever their goal is... this is gonna be expensive for us all

Prepare your wallets and prepare you bodies.

[patrickjp93]

They will now make slow,consumergrade, overpriced routers with a minimalistic design

Same old same old.