After Huawei, now ZTE is facing the heat, as it was involved in banned sales of computer equipment from Cisco to Iran’s telecom companies. ZTE is Cisco’s sales partner, and Iran is in the list of Cisco’s embargoed countries.

Cisco announced Linux-based IPTV set-top-boxes. The “Videoscape” branded media gateways will be in direct competition with Google TV, Apple TV and Boxee-based devices to offer both cable TV as well web content.

Cisco has finally entered into the tablet market with the launch of its Android based tablet named Cisco Cius. Cisco believes that Cius is a business tablet and it is definitely not a competitor of Apple iPad.

Cisco made it clear that Quad will release this year-end though, it has not announced any price yet. Once released, Quad is available for the iPhone and iPad.