Cisco to manufacture some products in India
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Cisco Systems will open a manufacturing facility in Chennai in south India that will initially make products for the domestic Indian market and also has announced it is setting up a globalization center in the country.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems has entered into a partnership with Haier, the largest manufacturer of large home appliances in China, that will allow the companies to work together on a number of projects, including information infrastructure and home networking systems. The partnership, announced Tuesday, will also give the companies the opportunity to share best practices in areas such as investments and financial management and controls, Cisco said in a news release. The two companies will work together on a "broad range" of projects in China and other markets outside the United States, Cisco said. A Cisco spokesman in the United States declined to answer questions about the deal, saying Cisco had "no further details to share at this point." Haier, the fourth-largest "white goods" manufacturer worldwide, is working to expand its brand outside China, Cisco said. Haier, with about 50,000 employees, has entered the networked appliance market in the past two years. Haier is a Cisco customer in China. Haier believes it is "necessary to take advantage of Cisco's business practices as a model for efficient international expansion," particularly in network-reliant areas such as customer service, Zhang Ruimin, Haier's CEO, said in a statement. Cisco will share its experience in using networking technologies to improve corporate competitiveness, added Thomas Lam, president of Cisco China. At a conference earlier this month, Cisco officials suggested that the company plans toÂ focus more of its efforts on the consumer market. The company also sees opportunity in developing countries, officials said.
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NEW DELHI -- Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. will set up a center in India to support all aspects of its worldwide operations, the company's chief executive said Wednesday.
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Cisco Systems sees a big market for WiMax, but not primarily in high-profile deployments in the developed world such as&#160;Sprint Nextel&#39;s nationwide network, planned for commercial launch in the U.S. next year.Cisco&#39;s acquisition of Navini Networks, expected to close in January, will make it a vendor of wireless radios to carriers for the first time, even though it has been selling the infrastructure behind all kinds of radios for several years. The prospect of getting in early on a market transition was one thing that made WiMax attractive, according to Brett Galloway, vice president and general manager of Cisco&#39;s wireless networking business unit.But the main opportunity Cisco sees is in building networks in developing countries, initially to bring broadband to stationary users, company executives said Wednesday at the annual C-Scape analyst conference in San Jose, California. That&#39;s a long way from the vision of mobility that Intel and other big backers of WiMax promoted for several years. Even an Intel executive on a panel with the Cisco executives played up WiMax as an alternative to DSL (digital subscriber line) or cable broadband. That&#39;s likely to be the role of WiMax for the foreseeable future in markets with poor or no wired infrastructure, said Sriram Viswanathan, general manager of the WiMax Program Office at Intel Capital. But he&#39;s not giving up on mobile WiMax there.&quot;We see that as almost an entry step for these markets to get onto the mobility bandwagon,&quot; Viswanathan said.The carriers in developing countries are insisting on gear based on IEEE 802.16e, the standard for mobile WiMax, rather than on an earlier specification limited to fixed services, said Roger Dorf, president and CEO of Navini. They want the capability to eventually offer a mobile service, especially because many such carriers have both wired and wireless divisions, he said. But right now, Cisco sees WiMax giving many residents of poorer countries, who overwhelmingly still use desktop PCs, their first broadband experience. Desktops will dominate those markets for the next two years, in Dorf&#39;s view.Cisco isn&#39;t dismissing WiMax for advanced countries, just identifying the most attractive market to start with, Galloway said. However, the executives don&#39;t see much potential in unlicensed WiMax, such as deployments across large enterprise campuses. The unlicensed variety will remain a niche product, primarily for point-to-point backhaul links, Galloway said.Mobile WiMax is designed so it can be used without an external antenna or gateway box, so a user should be able to take a notebook or other portable device anywhere in the network&#39;s coverage area and connect. But some analysts say this &quot;nomadic&quot; capability is a far cry from the true mobility that cellular technologies have been designed to deliver from the beginning. WiMax will complement but not compete with future high-speed versions of 3G systems, namely LTE (Long-Term Evolution), the next step in the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology track, according to Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates.Cisco isn&#39;t taking sides in the next-generation radio fight, said Larry Lang, vice president and general manager of Cisco&#39;s Services and Mobility Business Unit. Cisco will win in any case because it supplies the IP (Internet Protocol) packet infrastructure that will link different access networks together, he said.The company does see an affinity between WiMax and Wi-Fi, where it is a dominant player. Both are IP-based and standardized, and no one company has dominated innovation in either technology, Galloway said. Simply the advent of a new type of portable broadband experience is good news for the network giant.&quot;If we drive innovation on end devices and applications, and we drive the penetration and ubiquity of networks ... we create enormous value for Cisco ... for the ecosystem ... and for our customers,&quot; Galloway said.&#160;
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Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O, the  biggest maker of network gear for directing Internet traffic,  on Monday said it will introduce a new line of low-end routers  in the coming weeks aimed at winning more corporate business.
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Fujitsu, Japan&#39;s biggest computer manufacturer, have joined hands with Cisco to produce high-end routers and switches for the Japanese market.
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Get CISCO certified Site offer Cisco is one of the leading names in global networking and is a recognised force in the areas of hardware, software, and service provision.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Nortel Networks has set up a network management center in Delhi, India to service its customers worldwide. The center is to provide network management, technology transformation, and hosted application services for multivendor, multitechnology telecommunications networks serving both local and multinational companies, Nortel said Monday. Nortel already runs similar centers in London and Raleigh, North Carolina. The companyâs decision to locate a center in India was based on the easy availability of low cost talent in India, said Ravi Chauhan, Nortelâs managing director for India. Having a center in India will also enable Nortel to better offer round-the-clock support to global customers, he added. Indiaâs telecommunications market is also booming, as over 6 million new mobile phone subscribers are being added each month. One of Indiaâs leading service providers, Bharti Airtel already uses hosted contact center services and an interactive voice response (IVR) technology from Nortel to provide customers with a virtual, multilingual storefront for ordering new services and completing routine transactions. Nortel hopes to sign up more customers in India soon, Chauhan said. A number of telecommunications companies including Nokia haveÂ set up network operations centers in India.
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Land of the rising routers. Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) and Fujitsu (otc: FJTSY - news - people ) will join forces to develop high-end routers for Internet networks in Japan.
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Cisco (Quote, Chart) and Fujitsu will collaborate on high-end routers and other products for Japanese carriers and corporations moving to Internet Protocol (define) systems, the companies announced.
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Cisco has bought IP service control vendor P-Cube of Sunnyvale, California, in a cash deal worth about $200m. The company says the deal should allow its customers to run advanced IP services such as voice
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Hewlett-Packard Co. and Cisco Systems Inc. are teaming to provide large customers with combined network maintenance and support services around the globe.
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By Eric Auchard and Daniel Sorid BEIJING  - Cisco Systems Inc.  Chief Executive John Chambers said China was well on the way to becoming the world's technology hub as he revealed plans for his company's first research center in the country.
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InfoWorld - IBM and Cisco Systems plan to release a jointly developed product in July as part of an expansion of their existing alliance around telecommunications network management and service assurance, the companies said Thursday.
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Cisco Systems is teaming up with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop new communications technology that the company hopes to ultimately turn into products.
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Cisco Systems, the world&#39;s largest maker of equipment for directing Internet traffic says China is well on the way to becoming the world&#39;s technology hub.
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Telecommunications and networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc is planning to launch a new Japanese R&amp;D facility early in 2005 at a cost of $12 million spread over five years.