Cisco Muscles Out the Video Sector

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Cisco (CSCO Quote) executives like to say video is the killer app on computer networks, but after the tech giant picked off another rival, other competitors are feeling a different kind of mortality.

Using $3 billion of the $29.1 billion cash pile that Cisco has stashed overseas, the networking equipment shop's bid for Norway's Tandberg continues its path to video-conferencing domination.

The news of Cisco's tie-up with the No. 1 video-conferencing player Tandberg effectively crushed the smaller players in the sector like Radvision (RVSN Quote), and it threatens to put some distance on the No. 2 player Polycom (PLCM Quote). Read More ...