Cisco sees growth in video, routing market share
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Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O on   Wednesday said it has turned the corner on its routers business   and saw growing opportunities to expand its consumer strategy   with new video technologies.
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Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest maker of equipment that directs data over the Internet, on Tuesday said quarterly earnings rose 29 percent on rising demand for its networking gear.
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Mike Volpi, routing technology general manager at Cisco, spoke recently about important new application-aware networking technology, service providers and his 10 years at Cisco.
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Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday launched  a Web-based product to help businesses deliver live and  on-demand videos to large groups, in its latest push to expand  into the enterprise video market.
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Cisco Systems Inc. , 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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(InfoWorld) - A rising tide lifts all boats, and in the world of videoconferencing, Cisco Systems' high-profile TelePresence products are boosting the market as a whole. Longtime player Tandberg is trying to make the most of the good times. In the latest move for market position, Tandberg said Thursday it plans to acquire privately held Codian, a maker of back-end infrastructure for other vendors' conferencing endpoints. The 107-employee company, based in Slough, U.K., will help Tandberg grab sales and develop new products faster as well as go after new opportunities in the IP communications market, Tandberg said. It expects the $270 million deal to close in the third quarter. Cisco's TelePresence, introduced late last year, was practically all Cisco executives would talk about when they met with financial analysts this week, and with good reason: The technology costs up to $300,000 per location and requires special design and installation work, but it looks and sounds great. Using it has already slashed Cisco's travel costs, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said. The marketing effort Cisco has been pouring into TelePresence has raised the profile of other telepresence systems, such as Hewlett-Packard's Halo and Teliris's VirtuaLive. These systems bring videoconferencing, traditionally complicated and low quality, to another level. In turn, they have put the spotlight on improvements in midrange videoconferencing systems that now feature high-definition cameras and displays and better sound. "The attention has done more for HD videoconferencing than for telepresence," she said. "The price tag (on telepresence) is still prohibitive for most enterprises." Whereas telepresence usually involves designing a whole room for a particular system, which can even include special furniture and room modifications, midrange high-definition videoconferencing may be installed in an existing conference room or as upgraded components to an existing system, IDC's Freedman said. These systems can be deployed for a fraction of the cost of telepresence. Codian makes back-end infrastructure for conferencing systems, including MCUs (multipoint control units), gateways, content servers, and management software, Tandberg said. Tandberg pledged to continue developing and supporting both its own and Codian's product lines even though both companies make, for example, MCUs. Tandberg, based in Oslo, is already working with HP to let users hook up its high-definition desktop videoconferencing systems with Halo conference rooms. Although the telepresence market is still a "corporate jet replacement" for top-level executives, the market isn't standing still, Freedman said. IDC estimated telepresence sales worldwide were just $64 million in 2006, but believes they will rise to $170 million this year and to $1 billion by 2011. Polycom, which makes a broad range of conferencing products including a telepresence system, moved to grab more of that market early this year when it acquired Destiny Conferencing for $47.6 million. The 27-employee company was already supplying core technology for Polycom's RPX telepresence product and held several patents in the area.
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Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O on Tuesday   launched a Web-based product to help businesses deliver live   and on-demand videos to large groups, in its latest push to   expand into the enterprise video market.
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Cisco Systems Inc.  is  expected to post higher quarterly sales as companies upgraded  their communications networks, but analysts say the outlook is  clouded by an economic slowdown and mergers among rivals.
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Cisco Systems, which has been under growing competitive pressure lately in the high-end router space, announced a series of initiatives this week designed to improve its market position, as well as bolster its relationship with telecom service providers.
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Network equipment maker Cisco Systems  Inc  on Monday launched a new switching product aimed  at large data centers, and forecast strong sales despite  worries of a slowdown in U.S. technology spending.
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Cisco Systems Inc. said on Tuesday its quarterly net profit rose as customers bought more network equipment in response to growing Internet traffic.
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They're perhaps not the first name you think of in consumer electronics, but Cisco Systems has plans for that segment of the market.
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BCN Systems&#39; routing architecture will be used to to speed development of converged networks for data, voice, and video. By Networking Pipeline News.
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(InfoWorld) - When Cisco meets analysts Wednesday at an annual conference about its business outlook, the dominant networking player will bring a good financial record and an even more impressive forecast. Rapidly expanding beyond its traditional routing and switching businesses into voice, video, wireless, and other categories,Â the company now sees gold in collaboration using Web 2.0 technologies. Last month, when it reported results for its fourth quarter and 2007 fiscal year, Cisco upped its forecast for quarterly revenue growth, year over year, to between 12 percent and 17 percent on average. That prediction is likely to be a hot topic at the conference, taking place at Cisco's San Jose, California, headquarters. That's impressive for a company that's anything but a startup with a market capitalization of about $200 billion and annual revenue of nearly $35 billion. Even Microsoft's quarterly revenue hasn't consistently been growing that fast in recent years. The new forecast is a jump up from a previous standing estimate of 10 percent to 15 percent that was controversial when first made a few years ago. Analysts credit smart moves and generally good execution in entering new technology areas as well as strength in its core markets for the company's ongoing success. Real-time communications of all kinds, including voice, data, social networking, and a form of high-quality videoconferencing Cisco calls Telepresence, will drive continued growth, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said last month. The company has aggressively acquired to capture new markets,Â buying video infrastructure vendor Scientific-AtlantaÂ last year andÂ online collaboration service WebExÂ earlier this year, in addition to many smaller players. But its followup is just as important, according to Brian Riggs of Current Analysis, who specializes in communications. Cisco doggedly builds on the products it acquires and modifies its lineup to meet customer demands as it did with its Smart Business Communications System for small businesses earlier this year, Riggs said. Cisco also seems to have a smarter approach to developing markets than do other first-world tech companies, said Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala. Starting at the top with heads of state and convincing governments of the value of Cisco's technology, the company sells into poorer countries without eroding its profit margin, he said. Threats still loom, however. Microsoft is getting ready to take on Cisco's unified communications architecture with Office Communications Server 2007 despite the two companies' pledge last month to work together. Hewlett-Packard's well-priced ProCurve products are gaining in enterprise LANs, F5 Networks could threaten Cisco in data centers, and there's a danger of Cisco's infrastructure gear becoming a commodity unless the company keeps innovating, Kerravala said. However, Chambers's rhetoric and Cisco's results also say something about the industry as a whole, he said. Sales of HP and Foundry Networks's enterprise products are also growing in a cycle that Kerravala attributes to upgrading networks that were built in advance of Y2K. "At first glance, you can say he's being overly optimistic, but on the other hand, he's rarely wrong," Kerravala said.
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An alliance between US IT giant Cisco and Japan's Fujitsu could help both business boost sales as competition in the market for  broadband equipment ramps up.
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Cisco Systems Inc. , the biggest maker of gear to direct traffic over the Internet, on Tuesday said it was on track to meet Wall Street's fiscal 2005 revenue growth estimates, but signaled that profit margins were under pressure.
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Cisco Systems is accelerating its push into the SMB market with the launch this week of entry-level switching modules, an aggregation switch and a Web-based management tool that helps smaller customers gain easier access to high-level features.