Tag: cisco
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Cisco’s New Acquisition and Globalization/Outsourcing Strategies
WSJ: Cisco Changes Tack In Takeover Game Cisco is now buying companies and giving them much more autonomy. For example, Cisco bought email security start-up IronPort, but let it operate as a stand-alone unit, with its own managers, brand name, engineers and salespeople. Cisco’s strategy shift is particularly striking because the company, the country’s third-largest…
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IEEE ComSoc SCV Meeting on Telepresence and Cisco’s Emerging Tech Group
Charles Stucki, VP and GM of Cisco’s TelePresence Business Unit, provided an excellent overview of Cisco’s Emerging Technology Group (ETG), with an emphasis on its first product- the Telepresence video conferencing for enterprise customers (and for Cisco’s internal use). Confirming our earlier supposition about telecom companies concentrating on content, Chuck stated that Cisco was looking…