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maryhadalambda 12/4/2012 | 9:32:59 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions He went shopping on the shareholders' dime for companies which were little more than a few hot buzz words and a neat powerpoint presentation. That's why it's Volpi who's been benched. His job now is to teach industry press about new technologies. Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.
FiberGuy 12/4/2012 | 9:32:57 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions see subject
netskeptic 12/4/2012 | 9:32:57 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions > He went shopping on the shareholders' dime for
> companies which were little more than a few hot
> buzz words and a neat powerpoint presentation.
> That's why it's Volpi who's been benched. His
> job now is to teach industry press about new
> technologies. Those who can, do; those who
> can't, teach.

Come on, comparing to guys doing similar job at LU and NT Volpi's record is simply great.

Thanks,

Netskeptic

UncleBond 12/4/2012 | 9:32:55 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions
> That's why it's Volpi who's been benched

On the contrary, Volpi is being rotated around different groups within Cisco to train him as a potential successor to Chambers.
/ub
aswath 12/4/2012 | 9:32:53 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions Yes. For me it is news that Cisco will not focus on developing a Class 4 or Class 5 replacement switch. "If an incumbent wants to offer more voice services, their best bet is to stick with what they already have," Volpi says.

Hope that vendors of these switches will focus on providing the feature set that were promised by VoIP proponents.
Kevin Mitchell 12/4/2012 | 9:32:49 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.

Very nice sentiment, Mary. I suppose you are self educated and view the role of teacher as useless?
rjmcmahon 12/4/2012 | 9:32:47 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions In my opinion, this indicates a few possibilities and none of which are positive.

o I/O technology providers believe they have a losing hand. Partnering with monopolists may seem like their only choice. They will have no legacy and only severe pain ahead if they make this choice.

o SBC will be laying off many, many employees in order to try to become "competitive". Unfortunately, business cultures are not so easily changed and such an attempt is destined to fail.

o Technology providers and bit distributors have decided the only way to support their cost strucutures is to partner w/each other and then blindly support the pirating from the content refineries. Unfortunately, stealing from others is an economic system rife with conflict and does nothing to enable production.

One has to wonder how long it will be before many of the youthful executives are replaced with seasoned, grey haired, businessmen.
eyesright 12/4/2012 | 9:32:43 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions This should be interesting.

Mostly what you get from Cisco when they call on you is a boatload of arrogance. Looks like a big time retreat from the tried and true Cisco statement "IP is the answer, now what was the question?"
BobbyMax 12/4/2012 | 9:31:58 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions Cisco always wanted to be called itself as telecom equipment supplier. It has led others to believe that Cisco has the same equipment as Lucent and Northern Telecom. This statement is farthest from truth.

Cisco does not have in-house capability to develop Class 4 or Class 5 switches.

Cisco always portrys capabilities far more than it can deliver. Often timers Cisco's product do not satisfy the quality and feature requirements in most cases.

Cisco is not paying any attention to its fast swindling stocks. If the stock descends, Cisco even could go out of business.
gea 12/4/2012 | 9:31:56 PM
re: Cisco Chills on Acquisitions Yes, Cisco is well knwon for foney and junky equipments. It is a fact that many Cisco telco boxes do not even take real electric power. Instead, they use fake electrons and generate fake heat to seem like they are functioning when they are in fact not.
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