[cisco-voip] OT: Tandberg or should I call it Cisco?

[Matthew Saskin]

They have almost perfectly complementary product lines, and for the most
part where there's overlap, there is a clear winner.

Scheduling/Resource Management - TMS over CUVC-M any day of the week
MCU - Codian over the OEM radvision solution by far; rior to Tandberg
acquiring Codian they [Codian] had already demonstrated SCCP integration w/
CUCM as a media resource to enable multi-point desktop conferencing, they
just weren't licensing and releasing the feature to customers.
Desktop Video - Movi and CUVA is a toss-up in my book, but I don't have much
experience with the Movi client

For the rest of the line, Cisco has no small room-based video options (the
CTS-500 doesn't count), so that's a natural Tandberg fit.  When it comes to
Telepresence (T3/CTS-3000) it's a bit of a toss-up and is going to come down
to interoperability plain and simple as well as keeping existing customers
happy.

Note: my personal opinions only - it'll be an interesting few months once
the acquisition actually completes.

Matthew Saskin
msaskin at gmail.com
203-253-9571


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Craig Staffin Jr. <craig at staffin.org>wrote:

> Honestly I think that cisco will purchase them and keep them separate for a
> while.
>
> However they are purchasing them so that they have a full Video
> Conferencing solution.  This makes them the #1 player in the market.  On top
> of that Tandberg has one of the largest install bases that you can then
> convert over to Telepresence.
>
> Craig
>   On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Scott Voll wrote:
>
>   http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10409293-92.html
>
> My question is, will they buy it to kill it?  or will they keep it like
> Linksys?  or will they use the technology and add it to the ASA ;-)
>
> I have been very happy with Tandberg in the past.  I guess I will have to
> wait and see what they do with it.
>
> Scott
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