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The Internet is moving away from being a data transportation and messaging platform, into a space filled with integrated rich-media content such as video and voice, and Web 2.0 platforms such as Facebook, that encourages online collaborations even at the enterprise level, according to Cisco Systems.

 The networking giant also sees increasing demand for distributed virtualized data center architecture, Irving Tan, newly-appointed managing director of Cisco Singapore and Brunei, said during a media briefing here Thursday.

He noted that this “new Internet” will frame the company’s future strategies and product offerings.

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CEO John Chambers said the economic recovery appears to be gaining speed, and that Cisco will add as many as 3,000 jobs over the next few quarters as it looks to continue its expansion into new markets. Chambers’ comments came as he announced a solid fiscal second quarter that included a 23.2 increase in income over the same period last year and an 8 percent jump in sales.

Cisco Systems will add 2,000 to 3,000 jobs over the next few quarters as it continues to push into new markets and as officials see the economic recovery gaining steam, according to CEO John Chambers.

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Cisco Systems is on deck to deliver its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday and analysts are upbeat about the company’s prospects. The rub: Supply constraints may have put a lid on Cisco’s revenue.

Overall, Cisco is expected to deliver a strong quarter amid strong spending on data center upgrades and telecom companies’ infrastructure upgrades. In fact, a few analysts expect Cisco to hire about 2,000 to 3,000 employees over the next two to three quarters as demand bounces back.

Analysts expect Cisco to report second quarter earnings of 35 cents a share on revenue of $9.4 billion, according to Reuters Thomson. Gross margins are projected to be at 64.84 percent. In recent days, estimates have been creeping higher.

The bottom line: Cisco has weathered the downturn well and now is playing offense as it targets new markets and ramps up acquisitions.

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Cisco says it has bought Rohati Systems, a company specializing in agentless transaction networking systems designed to secure collaboration and ease regulatory compliance by providing granular access controls.

Cisco Systems confirmed that it has acquired Rohati Systems, a security startup founded by former Cisco employees.

Rohati came out of stealth mode in 2008 with a focus on providing TNS (transaction networking systems) to enable secure collaboration and ease regulatory compliance.

Cisco has released a security fix for at least six security holes that expose users of its WebEx Player software to remote code execution attacks.

The affected Cisco WebEx WRF Player is an application that is used to play back WebEx meeting recordings that have been recorded on the computer of an on-line meeting attendee.

Luxul’s series of FCC-certified systems and kits will bundle the D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G access point, which the company claims delivers speeds of up to 108M bps.

Luxul Wireless, a producer of wireless signal technologies, and D-Link, an end-to-end solutions provider for consumers and businesses, announced the availability of a series of Federal Communications Commission-certified Wi-Fi systems.

The FCC-certified systems and kits will bundle the D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G access point, which delivers speeds of up to 108M bps and includes Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management software. The bundled solutions will be marketed under the Luxul Wireless Pro-Wav brand.

Pro-Wav solutions combine signal boosting technology with high efficiency antennas to expand wireless coverage areas and improve overall performance of a wireless access point (WAP) by as much as 400 percent, according to Luxul. Pre-certified Luxul/D-Link solutions will initially be offered for the Pro-Wav 100, Pro-Wav 200 and select Pro-Wav Range Extender Kits. Pro-Wav pre-certified products are currently available through Control4 dealers. Expanded availability through other Luxul sales channels is expected to be announced in the first quarter of 2010.

Avaya is looking to take the lead in enterprise telephony with its $900 million purchase of Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions business. The enterprise business is only the latest unit that bankrupt Nortel has sold off this year. Still, despite its efforts to drastically shrink the company, Nortel is continuing to roll out products, most recently announcing a 100G optical solution.

Avaya has completed its $900 million acquisition of bankrupt Nortel Network’s enterprise business, a deal that analyst say will push Avaya ahead of Cisco Systems in the enterprise telephony market.

With Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions business in the fold, Avaya, which announced the closing of the deal Dec. 18, will have about 25 percent of the enterprise telephony space, compared with Cisco’s 16 percent, according to analysts.

“The completion of this acquisition represents another major step in Avaya’s evolution and growth in the communications industry,” Avaya President and CEO Kevin Kennedy said in a statement. “Avaya and Nortel Enterprise Solutions share a common vision for the future of business communications.”

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Want to let everyone know what you’re listening to on your Zune HD? Better make it 140 characters or less.

Microsoft on Wednesday added a free Twitter app to the Zune HD music player, which will let users Tweet from any Wi-Fi hotspot. It was made available at noon Eastern time and is downloadable via the Zune software on a PC or over a wireless connection on the device.

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Amazon Kindle

At the beginning of 2009, Amazon updated the Kindle (often referred to as the jump from Kindle 1 to Kindle 2) with a much sleeker form factor, reorganization of controls, and more integrated memory. Amazon recently added an international Kindle to the mix with support for wireless access outside the US and then made all new Amazon Kindle devices the same US/international version to avoid confusion with multiple models. They switched from wireless access provided by Sprint to wireless access provided by AT&T in the US.

The Kindle has about a third of the front taken up by a QWERTY keyboard that you can use to look up words or search for books in your library and on the Amazon store and

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