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The company's video meeting business is best known for its TelePresence Meeting Systems, especially the high-profile three-screen meeting rooms that include Cisco-designed furniture and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In good years, when they report good results and offer good forecasts, that usually means performance will be good for the others from International Business Machines Corp.

Cisco's ACE appliances and modules are something that I see constantly at customers.

The rebranding effort, which includes a new logo, is part of a larger shift by the UC company away from hardware to software.

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Today: Silicon Valley is known as a hub of innovation, but even innovators are known to make some missteps.

The Cable Show -- This year's event, as usual, ran the gamut of cable technology, programming and policy.

For Cisco Systems, Inc. , year-to-date its stock is down 9.23 percent. On Thursday, Cisco's OJ Winge,A Senior Vice President for Cisco's TelePresence Technology Group, announced in a blog post that the company would no longer invest in itsA Cisco Cius tablet and there will be no additional enhancements to it moving forward.

SHENZHEN, May 25, 2012 -- Cisco Systems, Inc. , Juniper Group, Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

A couple of weeks ago Forbes had given Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer the title as the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today.

West Point, Ga. overbuilder Knology has set June 26 as the date for a special meeting of shareholders to approve its $1.5 billion sale to WideOpenWest.

Liberty Global, the international cable giant chaired by cable legend John Malone, has completed the sale of its stake in Australian satellite TV unit, Austar, to Foxtel for about $1.1 billion.

TV Land continues to beef up its original programming slate, ordering comedy pilots from Ben Silverman and Scott Stuber on Thursday.

SEPTEMBER 29: Republican gubernatorial candidate and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman speaks to Cisco employees during a town hall style event September 29, 2010 in San Jose, California.

David Ward, Cisco Vice President, Service Provider Chief Architect, and Chief Technology Officer, and Shashi Kiran, Senior Director, Market Management, Data Center/Virtualization and Enterprise Switching at Cisco, will discuss the company's vision, strategy, and perspective on SDN.

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook talks to employees as he visits the iPhone production line at the newly built Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology Park, located in Henan province, China, in this March 28 handout photo.

The Cable Show -- Engineers from Arris Group Inc. , Cisco Systems Inc. and Motorola Mobility Inc.

OCN, one of the China's largest cable operators, will deploy Videoscape to enable new multi-screen video services for PCs, tablets, smart phones and other mobile devices for its customer base throughout Shanghai, China.

Cisco reported last week relatively solid third-quarter results. The company reported third-quarter per share earnings of $0.48, an increase of 21% over the same period last year.

The effort may also begin to stoke a fight between Cisco Systems Inc. and other incumbent cable modem termination system vendors and Broadcom Corp.