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Prospects for Cisco Systems' continued growth are discussed, with particular attention paid to its individual product segments: routers, switches, advanced technologies, and services.

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The case study of Cisco Systems Inc., a network hardware industry, is presented to showcase the holistic approach adopted by it in its brand promotion. Cisco utilized the services of internet by building 'cisco.com' and integrated all its services and products under one roof for easy accessibility to the customer. This case study provides the strategies and methodologies adopted by the company in the evolution of its brand image.

This article describes how Cisco Systems successfully integrates newly acquired companies in a timely manner. Examples are offered from other companies that illustrate how to achieve a quick and effective merger/acquisition. The article includes an activity timeline.

Information and analysis of how the computer networking equipment industry operates is given. Topics covered include the evoluation of computer networking, mainframes and minicomputers, PC's and the shared bandwidth era, and switching technology are discussed.

NOKIA IS THE WORLD LEADER IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS. BACKED BY ITS EXPERIENCE INNOVATION, USER-FRIENDLINESS AND SECURE SOLUTION, THE COMPANY HAS BECOME THE LEADING SUPPLIER OF MOBILE PHONES AND A LEADING [...]

An industry profile and the current environment of the computer networking equipment industry are given as of Sep 12, 2002. A glossary, industry references, and a comparative company analysis are also provided.

Meet Larry Carter today and you'd never know he began his career as an accountant. In fact, you'd probably even think he was a CEO or COO, busy as he […]

An industry profile and the current environment of the computer network industry as of Feb 28, 2002 is presented. A glossary, a comparative company analysis, and industry references are also given.

As the federal government pushes for more teleworking and greater information sharing among agencies, officials are finding that virtual private networks are a low-cost way to securely connect far-flung employees […]

The operations and management of Sonus Networks Inc of Westford, MA, are discussed in detail by president and CEO Hassan Ahmed. Sonus provides computer networks to industry.

The operations and management of Com21 Inc of Milpitas, CA, are described in detail by CFO Ralph Marimon and vice president William Gallagher. Com21 makes access and infrastructure equipment for the broadband communications industry.

Cisco Systems' highly praised forecasting software not only failed to prevent the company's inventory disaster, which came consequent to the technology sector's downturn. Some say reliance on the software may actually have helped to blind Cisco's management to impending difficulties. In the 3rd qtr of FY 2001, CEO John Chambers was forced to write off $2.2 billion of inventory and eliminate 8,500 jobs. CIO Peter Solvik insists that things would have been worse without the forecasting software.

This article examines the strategic management techniques of Cisco Systems Inc., focusing on how company has moved from simply selling computer network-related products to selling network-related services or solutions. Cisco's relationship with its resellers is addressed.

A scrappy contender stumbles and recovers with a new CEO and a new corporate direction. For more than a decade, Cabletron Systems has looked to its large enterprise customers to […]

An uninvited guest at what had been a very profitable party at the low end of networking, Intel Corp.'s Network Products Division (NPD) is starting to make the other party-goers […]

A multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) enables carriers to consolidate different types of traffic--including data, traditional TDM, and storage--on a common infrastructure. It is a fully redundant device with a rich [...]

Users hungry for new products and more scalability for their storage-networking dollars found what they were looking for in 2004. Switch vendors spent the year broadening their portfolios, increasing scalability. […]

Ron Wicks Federal Government Marketing Manager, Adtran Enterprise Networks Division ADTRAN[R] is an industry-leading networking equipment manufacturer offering high-value, high-quality solutions for voice, data, and video networking. We recognize the […]

The operations and management of Network Equipment Technologies Inc of Fremont, CA, are described in detail by president and CEO Hubert Whyte. The company provides data communications equipment.

The operations and management of InfoGenesis of Santa Barbara, CA, are described in detail by president and CEO Karl Willig. The company provides point-of-sale equipment and supplies to the hotel industry.

Policy management is one of the newest catch phrases in the storage industry. It is being applied to virtually everything relating to storage Arrays have internal policy management algorithms to […]

Every year, thousands of brand marketers, advertising agencies, producers, sales promotion firms and retailers attend POP Marketplace, ready to find the next great idea to knock out the competition. Are [...]

Investors, IT managers, and newly appointed Internet sales managers have all struggled with the claims of e-commerce software companies and service providers. In the past five years, executives invested millions [...]

John Chambers has had more than his fair share of worries in 2001. This time last year, the head of network-equipment company Cisco Systems had just been named chief executive [...]

The operations and management of Electronic Systems Technology Inc of Kennewick, WA, are described in detail by president and CEO Tom Kirchner. The company provides wireless modems and LAN equipment to industrry.

A doctor, an economist, and an architect were debating this question: Whose profession is oldest? The doctor noted that Eve was created from a rib, and therefore surgery came first. [...]

Cisco Systems' effort to cut real estate costs while expanding employment in Europe and Lucent Technologies rollout of Project Atlas, a workplace strategy, are discussed.

Level 3 Communications CEO Jim Crowe plans to make his company a dominant low-cost player in the data communications field. Level 3 faces competition from Qwest, Frontier Communications, and other firms that have built high-capacity fiber networks in the 1990s. However, if anyone can achieve that goal it is Crowe, who has proven skills building networks, according to David Barden of J.P. Morgan Securities. Telecommunications analyst Tom Friedberg says Level 3's balance sheet is unusually strong for a new company.