November in the 2018 Cisco calendar has been a pretty big one. Two of the company's biggest events took place with BroadSoft Connections taking place in Miami and the Cisco Partner Summit taking place simultaneously in Las Vegas. It would seem unusual to have two of your biggest annual events taking place at the same time but the Connections event was planned prior to the announcement of Cisco's intent to acquire the UCaaS market leader in 2017. Collaboration played a huge role in both Connections and the Partner Summit. Cisco took the opportunity to announce various new integration features which will link their various platforms together more seamlessly and also took the opportunity to release various new collaboration enhancing products. In this episode the pod review all the news and speculate about how it might affect the Cisco partner world.