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Cisco and IBM will collaborate on telecom software that cuts impl...

Cisco and IBM will collaborate on telecom software that cuts implementation and maintenance costs, the companies said Thurs. Cisco will add IBM technology to its service provider product portfolio; IBM Tivoli software will integrate with Cisco Active Network Abstraction…

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(ANA), they said. Cisco Assurance Management Solution, combining ANA tech with Tivoli software, ships next month, they said. Managing different network elements in the same system can be a major challenge, even when made by the same company, IBM Tivoli Software CTO Alan Ganek told us. The new IBM/Cisco technology aims to simplify management of such IP-based services by offering a “more uniform structure,” he said. Ganek didn’t disclose financial terms.