Cisco snuffs Spark, renames it 'WebEx Teams'

Cisco leads the networking roundup this week, with news that there's one fewer way to avoid its WebEx brand: as part of a product reorganisation, what was Cisco Spark is to become WebEx Teams. It's more than a rebrand, Cisco's Jonathan Rosenberg insisted here, because in the Olde Worlde, Sparkies could join Spark meetings, and …

[Khaptain]

Sparkies

"Sparkies"

Was it a conferencing tool just for Electricians ?

[Christian Berger]

Multi-Standard RANs make a lot of sense

Particularly since since GSM, large parts of the base stations were implemented as an SDR anyway.

Besides LTE and GSM can perfectly well coexist on the same frequencies, if you manage to sync both basestations... which is trivial if they are combined. You can even ditch all that GSM fixed infrastructure and make the cells interwork with LTE more directly, greatly simplifying your architecture.