Cisco To Open R&amp;D Center in Japan To Hone Broadband
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Products produced to meet Japan&#39;s demand for broadband services will be &quot;robust enough to handle any other market in the world,&quot; said Mike Volpi of Cisco&#39;s routing technology group.
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Wireless speeds of 300 Mbps downstream. That&#39;s the goal of &quot;Super 3G&quot; experiments that Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo will begin this month.
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The Cisco-Fujitsu alliance will benefit from Cisco&#39;s leadership in IP technology and Fujitsu&#39;s edge in networking products.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. The office, announced on Tuesday and to be located in the western city of Galway, will initially employ 50 researchers but is expected to grow to 200 positions in the next three years. The researchers will build new unified communications applications and services, which allow workers to have a single point of access where they can be contacted via a variety of methods such as e-mail, voice mail, VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol), instant messaging and video. Cisco also plans to consider opportunities for collaborative research with industry and academic organizations in Ireland. Cisco currently employs 66 people in local sales and support in Ireland. The networking giant said it is expanding its investment in development around the world in order to be responsive to customer needs. Ireland's available talent pool and positive business climate attracted the company. Ireland's corporate tax rate, the lowest in Europe and among the lowest in the world, began attracting significant numbers of overseas companies about 20 years ago. Since then, other costs, such as energy and salaries, have risen dramatically in Ireland. As a result, the government has begun pursuing research and development investments, like Cisco's, which tend to be less reliant on extremely low operational costs and more focused on available talent than other types of operations, such as manufacturing. Ireland's Industrial Development Agency (IDA), a government body tasked with recruiting overseas companies to Ireland, said it has been courting Cisco for some time. The IDA often offers multimillion euro incentives to companies that choose to open up operations in the country. The agency said it supported the opening of the new center but it did not reveal how much it may have offered Cisco as incentive. The trend toward unified communications is growing as an increasing number of networks support IP. Earlier this year, Cisco began bundling a variety of its products related to voice, e-mail, text, videoconferencing and collaboration under a new Unified Communications System brand. Cisco also recently bought Metreos Corp. and Audium Corp. to make it easier for enterprise developers to integrate applications in the Unified Communications System. Cisco has competition in the space. Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. recently formed an alliance to develop unified communications technologies to enterprise customers.
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Hold hands and take the plunge Cisco has inked a deal with one of China's largest appliance makers to develop networking gear for residential use. Through its partnership with the Haier Group, Cisco seeks to cash in on the ever-growing popularity of the internet as a critical component in home entertainment centers.â¦
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo has started testing the next generation of cellular wireless broadband.
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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 plans to have one-fifth of its top executives in India by 2012, in line with its plan to make India the hub for the development of technologies and new business models for emerging markets.The company expects 60 to 70 percent of its growth to come from emerging markets, John Chambers, the company&#39;s chairman and CEO, said in Bangalore at the inauguration of the company&#39;s Globalisation Centre East campus. The new center will work with partners in the Middle East, Africa, China, Asia, and Latin America on developing technologies for these markets.While emerging markets are growing at between 5 and 10 percent, markets in developed countries are growing at just 1 to 4 percent, according to various estimates, Chambers said.The company&#39;s plan to have senior vice presidents, vice presidents, and directors, cutting across all corporate functions, in India is not aimed at cutting costs, but at nurturing talent in India, said Wim Elfrink, chief globalization officer for Cisco, who also heads the new center.Cisco currently employs about 3,000 staff in India, which it plans to increase to 10,000 by 2010. The new center, which currently has 900 staff, is expected to grow to 3,500 staff by October next year, said Elfrink. Some of the technologies developed in India will be rolled out in other emerging economies, and also in developed countries, he added.Cisco also announced Tuesday a collaboration with Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services, of Hyderabad, to focus on software for handling medical distress situations and other health management applications. Cisco plans to take a minority interest in the venture, details of which were not disclosed. Health care is one instance of Cisco&#39;s strategy to use India as base for technology and applications that can be deployed worldwide, Chambers said.The company announced in 2005 that it would&#160;invest $1.1 billion in India&#160;over three years, including $750 million in research and development (R&amp;D), $100 million in customer support, and $100 million in a venture fund. The planned investment is on track, Chambers told reporters in Delhi on Monday.Chambers announced Tuesday that the company was increasing the size of the venture fund by $100 million. The venture fund will be focused on &quot;disruptive technologies,&quot; Chambers said.
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Cisco Systems Inc., the world&#39;s largest maker of computer-networking equipment, formed an alliance with Fujitsu Ltd. to increase sales to Japanese telephone carriers.
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Tokyo, June 26 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese unit of U.S. network equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc. said Tuesday it will change its corporate status to "godo kaisha," similar to a limited liability company, on Aug. 1 from a stock company.
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Cisco Systems has sealed an alliance with Fujitsu in a bid to boosts its Japanese market presence. Under the terms of the deal, Fujitsu will act as a reseller for Cisco&#39;s high-end routing systems.
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Companies to jointly sell routers, operating software in Japan in attempt to increase market share. TOKYO  - Fujitsu Ltd.
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Internet networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. on Thursday said it plans to open a research and development center in Tokyo in February.
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(InfoWorld) - 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. The plans were announced Wednesday in Delhi by Cisco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers. The globalization center is aimed at driving the company's continued worldwide expansion. Called the Cisco Globalization Center East, the new center in Bangalore will be headed by Wim Elfrink, the company's senior vice president of customer advocacy, who will also be chief globalization officer. The center will have 1,000 employees over the next two years, and the focus will be on local software development and services resources, according to a Cisco spokesman in India. Cisco of San Jose, California, said last year that it willÂ invest more than $1.1 billion in IndiaÂ over the next three years, with most of the spending to expand its research and development (R&D) operations in the country. Cisco first set up operations in India in 1995 and today employs more than 2,000 people in the country in its R&D center in Bangalore and sales offices across the country. The company will triple its staff strength in India over the next three to five years, Chambers said. The company also outsources software and product development to Indian companies. In line with Cisco's outsourced manufacturing model, the company selected one of its partners, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. of Taiwan, to work with it on the manufacturing facility. The Indian government's ministry of information technology and communications is promoting India as a manufacturing base for technology products, as manufacturing is expected to bring in jobs for semi-skilled people who have not benefited from the Indian software and services boom. Chambers said in Bangalore last year that Cisco was considering the local manufacture of its products following a request from India's minister for information technology and communications, Dayanidhi Maran. A number of multinational companies, including Nokia, Motorola, Dell, and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, have decided to manufacture in India. Contract manufacturers such as Elcoteq Network and Flextronics have also set up manufacturing operations in India to target India's growing mobile communications market.
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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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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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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.