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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (45313)1/26/2006 4:46:46 PM
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J Cisco: Co. To Expand By Integration of Tech, Use By Govts

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NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) Chief Executive John Chambers hopes to expand the company through integrating voice, data and video technologies and by incorporating their products in not just businesses, but governments.

"The opportunity in front of us is that technology can enable government or business strategy," Chambers said in an interview on CNBC Thursday. "That's a change in philosophy from three or four years go - it was the exceptional government leader who said 'I'm going to use technology to enable my strategy for my citizens.'"

I agree - MORE direct voting - LESS representative gubbment - hehe

He said time will tell if the network becomes the platform, but he hopes it will.

As far as his company's acquisitions, he said they will help the company integrate a variety of technologies.

"What Scientific-Atlanta Inc. (SFA) [deal] allowed us to do is they are the experts in video, it's probably, even though it's a $7 billion price tag, one of the safest moves we've made," "Linksys takes us into the home with devices. What we're doing isn't just playing in the consumer or the service provider environment or the enterprise or commercial, we're uniting them together over common architecture, common security.
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