Apple partners with Cisco to boost iPhone, iPad sales

Apple Inc on Monday teamed up with network gear maker Cisco Systems Inc to improve the sales of its mobile devices - iPad and iPhone - on the latter's corporate network.

Cisco will provide services specially optimised for iOS devices across mobile, cloud, and on premises-based collaboration tools such as Cisco Spark, Cisco Telepresence and Cisco WebEx, the companies said in a statement.

Apple is expanding its foothold in the enterprise arena at a time when iPad sales are shrinking. Cisco, on the other hand, has been investing in products and services such as data analytics software, security and cloud-management tools.

Last year, Apple partnered with International Business Machines Corp to sell iPhones and iPads loaded with applications geared at enterprise clients.