Tango Networks has said that it joined the Cisco Technology Developer Program as part of the program's IP Communications solution category.

 

Uniting Cisco (News - Alert) with third-party developers of hardware and software, Cisco Technology Developer Program delivers tested interoperable solutions to joint customers.

 

According to Cisco, the program includes companies that use Cisco technology, and share Cisco's strong commitment to customer service. And, based on criteria set forth by Cisco, members have also undergone interoperability testing.

 

Members of the Cisco Technology Developer Program unite the comprehensive Cisco technology portfolio with products that feature verified interoperability

 

Tango Networks (News - Alert) integrates mobile phones into the corporate enterprise. The integration enables mobile phone to turn into an extension on the enterprise unified communications or PBX (News - Alert) network.

 

Tango Networks also announced that its Abrazo, version 3.3, has “successfully” completed interoperability testing with Cisco Unified Communications (News - Alert) Manager, version 5.1.

 

The Abrazo offering is a unified communications (UC) solution for both enterprises and carriers and combines mobile phones with enterprise’s public branch exchange (PBX), UC solution or Centrex network.

 

Cisco Unified Communications Manager is a software-based call-processing system that monitors active voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network components. These include phones, gateways, conference bridges, transcoding resources, and voicemail boxes and more.

 

The successful completion of interoperability testing of Tango Networks' Abrazo, 3.3, allows customers to deploy a broad range of Cisco compatible business applications that can “enhance” the management of their Cisco network.

 

In August, the company announced completion of interoperability testing with BroadSoft BroadWorks. The completion of interoperability testing enabled BroadSoft’s (News - Alert) service provider customer base to offer a fixed-mobile convergence solution for enterprises that extends the BroadWorks suite of services to any mobile device.