A non-exclusive alliance between Cisco and Ericcson is rather interesting, especially when one realizes that a few years back Cisco struke deals with USA based RBOC’s to be integrators with them.
The implecations are far reaching, with the biggest being that CISCO can leverage already existing Ericsson softswitch technology and add onto it at both the network core router end and then go all the way into the home with their Linksys routers, including Wi-Fi.