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IPTV

Microsoft TV and Cisco share the vision that Internet Protocol can improve entertainment and communications services while providing service providers with new revenue opportunities. Cisco Systems, through its acquisitions of Scientific Atlanta and KiSS Technology, is part of the Microsoft TV IPTV ecosystem, delivering advanced set-top boxes and the latest encoding solutions to help make IPTV a reality.

Set-top boxes and video encoders are key components of the overall Microsoft TV IPTV Edition solution and critical for successful IPTV deployments. Microsoft and Cisco are working together on a number of Microsoft’s largest global deployments, featuring the Microsoft IPTV Edition software platform and Cisco set-top boxes and video headend equipment.

Network Optimization


 

High Performance Computing Solutions

Cisco collaborates with Microsoft to provide a unified compute fabric that supports high-performance computing (HPC) clusters running Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003.

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IPv6

IPv6 support in Cisco Systems® Cisco IOS® routers and switches and Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows Server™ 2003, Windows VistaTM (now in beta testing), and Windows Server "Longhorn" (now in beta testing) enables enterprises to support a larger network address space while eliminating the need for NAT or other workarounds. There are many techniques that enable an enterprise to transition to an IPv6 environment. One easy to manage transition solution is Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol or ISATAP. ISATAP provides a solution that enables enterprises to deploy IPv6 within their infrastructure with little time and effort.


 

Network Optimization for Microsoft Applications and Platforms

Within the application networking technology, Cisco and Microsoft are empowering businesses with the tools to optimize application availability, performance, and security and to reduce application ownership costs. This site includes marketing and technical collateral, Podcast, videos, and other reference materials.


 

Unified Computing System (UCS) with Microsoft

The Microsoft® and Cisco alliance extends the value of the Unified Computing System by fully integrating the operating system, application and management stacks which are tuned for virtualization. With Windows Server®, System Center and Hyper-V™ providing foundational system elements, SQL Server® provides the data platform for mission-critical applications. This provides an optimized environment for data-driven, business transactions. Learn More.

  • UCS Microsoft Brochure (PDF - 284 KB) This brochure gives an overview of the role Microsoft plays in Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS)

 

Windows Server® on WAAS

Cisco® WAAS (“Windows Server® on WAAS”) is a jointly developed and supported solution from Microsoft and Cisco to optimize branch IT services delivery. Wow reduces the cost and complexity of supporting branch office IT operations by integrating Microsoft Windows Server® with Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) technology. Wow increases branch employee productivity by delivering LAN-like performance of centralized applications and increased efficiency and availability of local IT infrastructure services.

Click here to read more about the announcement of Windows Server on WAAS availability.

Click here for our joint website with comprehensive information on this solution. Be sure to bookmark this page!

Security


 

Security

Security is a top priority for both Cisco and Microsoft, and we are conducting ongoing development in many areas including policy enforcement, VPN, wireless and protocols.

Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA)

To more effectively serve constituents and protect the homeland, the federal government must share information and collaborate closely. Increasingly, agencies are expected to proactively store, access, and share information so that they can respond quickly to requests from other agencies as well as the public. Secure collaboration architectures that support dynamic communities of interest (COIs) would usher the federal government into the digital economy by enabling collaboration while maintaining security.

Cisco, Microsoft and EMC have formed an alliance to help solve this problem by developing a comprehensive approach for enabling information sharing and consolidation among agencies. That is what Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) offers; a flexible platform that enables governments to dynamically establish secure collaborative communities across organizational boundaries. For more information, please go to the SISA website.

Press release: July 10, 2007 - Cisco, EMC, Microsoft Align to Offer Comprehensive Technology Architecture for Helping Protect and Share Sensitive Government Information

Unified Communications


 

Unified Call Connector

“Our partnership with Cisco allows us to jointly provide a proven and integrated solution that helps businesses build stronger customer relationships. We will continue to strengthen this alliance going forward by aligning our go-to-market and product roadmaps to ensure our customers’ success.”

Brad Wilson, Microsoft Dynamics CRM General Manager
August '06

The Cisco Unified CRM Connector integrates Cisco Unified Communications with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM application to provide all staff in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)—not just call center agents—with an easy-to-use and more complete customer relationship management (CRM) solution. The Cisco Unified CRM Connector quickly and easily integrates Cisco Unified Communications solutions with Microsoft CRM at the desktop, without the need for additional hardware. The solution helps provide a complete view of the customer, including current and past purchases, sales information, order status, account relationships, and billing information. When a call is received, the Cisco Unified CRM Connector 3.0 integration automatically links into the Microsoft Dynamic CRM system and provides screen pops of the customer contact record and phone call activity record to track the call.

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Cisco Unified Communications with Microsoft

For more than ten years, Cisco and Microsoft have provided innovative business solutions for their customers. Today the two companies are working together to help customers design Unified Communications solutions that closely align with their productivity, communication and collaboration objectives.

Cisco offers several categories of unified communications interoperability with Microsoft:

  • Cisco IP Telephony with Microsoft: If you want to use your Cisco Unified Communications Manager investments with Microsoft technologies, Cisco offers click-to-call capabilities from Microsoft Office Communicator, Microsoft desktop productivity applications, and Windows Mobile handsets. With native simultaneous ringing capabilities of Cisco Unified Communications Manager, you can answer incoming calls on either Microsoft Office Communicator or your Cisco Unified IP Phone. In addition, you can enable Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Business Edition to interoperate with Microsoft Exchange 2007 as a companion unified messaging solution.

  • Cisco Presence with Microsoft: Cisco also offers interoperability through Cisco Unified Presence and Cisco Unified Communications Manager so you can view the presence status of Cisco Unified IP Phone users directly in the Microsoft Office Communicator client. Business-to-business federation between Cisco Unified Presence and Microsoft Live Communications or Office Communications Server facilitates ongoing collaboration between businesses. With Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, you can add Microsoft Office Communicator users in other businesses to your buddy list, view their presence status, and securely exchange instant messages for ongoing collaboration.

  • Cisco Conferencing and Collaboration with Microsoft: For conferencing and collaboration with Microsoft, Cisco offers the ability to schedule Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Cisco WebEx, and Cisco TelePresence meetings directly from Microsoft Outlook. For real-time collaboration, you can initiate impromptu Cisco Unified MeetingPlace and Cisco WebEx meetings directly from Microsoft Office Communicator and use its presence and instant messaging capabilities. In addition, Cisco WebEx Connect also facilitates asynchronous collaboration by bringing together data from different sources (such as Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint) into one place.

  • Cisco Messaging with Microsoft: For unified or integrated messaging with Microsoft Exchange email, Cisco offers three proven enterprise-class solutions. Cisco Unity facilitates unified messaging with Microsoft Exchange so you can manage all email, voice, and fax messages in a single inbox. Cisco Unity Connection is an integrated messaging solution that offers access to voice messages from a Microsoft Outlook folder but requires less time and effort to deploy. And Cisco Unity Express provides integrated messaging with Microsoft Outlook for up to 250 users - ideal for small enterprises or branch offices.

  • Cisco Contact Center with Microsoft: The Cisco Unified CallConnector for Microsoft Dynamics CRM integrates Cisco Unified Communications with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM application at the desktop, without the need for additional hardware. It provides greater employee productivity and organizational efficiencies, immediate information about inbound and outbound calls, fast and easy click-to-dial functions from customer-relationship-management (CRM) database records, and call-duration tracking, information capture, and record creation.

  • Cisco Network with Microsoft: Cisco integrated services routers (ISR) and Cisco Catalyst switches provide the ideal foundation for delivering unified communications applications for secure business-class, real-time communications and collaboration. Cisco integrated services routers are Microsoft-certified gateways for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 deployments.

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