Cisco Systems Appoints Director of Channels for Asia Pacific
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Cisco Systems(R) (Nasdaq:CSCO) has appointed Mike Allen as director for channels in Asia Pacific.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems Inc., the techie's tech company, is learning how to please novice users. The shift comes as the company both moves into the consumer arena through service providers and its Linksys brand, and tries to give networks a bigger role in enterprise applications that face regular employees, Cisco's development and marketing chiefs said Wednesday at the C-Scape analyst conference in San Jose, California. Video has emerged as a prime topic at this year's conference as Cisco absorbs set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta and aims to equip its service provider customers with the infrastructure for triple-play or quad-play services. Those bundles, including data, voice, video and eventually mobile service, are expected to be the lifeblood of carriers in the future. Along with Linksys consumer gear, they will make Cisco much more of a consumer company, said Charles Giancarlo, Cisco's chief development officer and president of Linksys. "While I don't expect us to be the equivalent of Sony any time soon, more and more we'll be in front of the consumer, and more and more we'll be certainly in front of the business user, with our phones, with the user interface on the PCs, with Telepresence, et cetera," Giancarlo said. The Telepresence Meeting system, a high-quality video and audio system Cisco unveiled earlier this year for enterprises, is likely to reach home users within three to four years, Giancarlo said. Cisco's development approach is changing as the consumer and enterprise worker experience becomes more important, he said. Even network administrators may benefit, as the company is giving its switches and routers the intelligence to do more configuration on their own. In a wide-ranging, moderated discussion, Giancarlo also laid out some future visions. One area of networking where Cisco has had some holes is the wide-area wireless arena, he acknowledged. The company probably won't go into the radio or cellular equipment business, seeing its role instead as building infrastructure for carriers to deliver the same content across IP (Internet Protocol) to different devices. Cisco will also take steps this year to flesh out the SONA (Service-Oriented Network Architecture) initiative it announced at last year's analyst meeting. SONA is designed to give the network a greater role in enterprise applications. Much effort in SONA this year will be focused on unified communications, the combination of different forms of IP communications and blending of them with applications, Giancarlo said. Cisco also plans SONA components for mobility and security, he said. The company, with as many as 90 million consumer devices in homes already, plans a big push in that area at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January, said Chief Marketing Officer Sue Bostrom. She and Giancarlo were vague about whether Cisco will keep the Linksys and Scientific-Atlanta brands alive. The executives downplayed Microsoft's new competitive threat in unified communications. "Some people looked at it as a new and powerful entrant coming into the market. I viewed it as five powerful existing players leaving the market. Because I think it said, 'It's all about unified communications, it's not about hybrid PBXes,'" Giancarlo said, referring to the PBXes (private branch exchanges) sold by telephony vendors such as Nortel Networks Corp. and Avaya Inc. that combine traditional and IP telephony.
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Juniper Networks has been building up its presence in Asia for some time now, primarily concentrating on modernizing its networking business with the goal of creating a competitive advantage for its customers with its networking and security solutions.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO - News), today announced that several global carriers and research networks are now deploying and trialing the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System as a key
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SAN JOSE, Calif. &amp; TOKYO - (BUSINESS WIRE) â-ec. 5, 2004 â -itsu Limited (TSE:6702) and Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) today announced that they have reached a fundamental agreement to enter into
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Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. have announced plans to open a new research and development center in Tokyo next year. The company will invest a cool $12 million in the project over five years.
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TOKYO: Fujitsu Ltd and Cisco Systems Inc have agreed to form a strategic alliance, focusing on routers and switches that will enable businesses to build advanced Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
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Cisco Systems has announced its intent to open research and development center in Tokyo. The facility will open in February, 2005, and will represent an initial US $12 million investment over the next five
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TOKYO -- Cisco Systems will open a Tokyo-based research and development center focusing on Internet software and routing technologies in February 2005, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
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BEIJING -- John Chambers, the chief executive officer (CEO) and president of Cisco Systems Inc., doesn't care when economists think China is going to become the world's largest economy. He's just thinking about what needs to be done for Cisco to tap into that market.
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By Amy Thomson  John Chambers, chief executive of Cisco Systems, said Thursday that he planned to remain in the top job for two to five more years to help with the company's transition to video-based conferencing and networking products.
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Complementary metal oxide semiconductor power amplifier (CMOS PA) provider Axiom Microdevices Inc. announced today that it has appointed Raymond Wang as director of Asia Pacific (APAC) sales, and Taiwan-based electronics distributor Watson-Bell Co.
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LONDON - Cisco Systems and Fujitsu Limited are to collaborate on the development of high end routers and switches and support each other&#39;s products, initially in the Japanese market.
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Fujitsu has joined the networking parade by agreeing to sell Cisco&#39;s high-end routers and switches in Japan. It should come as no surprise as the market for high-end routers heats up.
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Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the largest maker of gear to direct Internet traffic, said on Sunday Japanese computer and electronics provider Fujitsu Ltd.
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By Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, Jordan  Mar. 4--Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, has expanded its presence in the GCC with the launch of its direct operations in Qatar, it was announced today.
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Cisco&#39;s Tokyo R&amp;D center will focus on advanced Internet technologies such as IPv6, multicast, and wireless, in addition to improving existing security and quality-of-service (QoS) technologies.