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Assessing Cisco's Growth Strategy

John T. Chambers, chief executive of the networking giant Cisco Systems, is keeping the acquisition machine humming. The company's $2.9 billion deal for Starent Networks is the second of roughly that size in October alone. Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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  1. Cisco’s acquisition of Tandberg is another indication that the video conferencing market is geared towards bigger companies ... The only available market for very expensive TelePresence systems that Cisco sells is very large enterprises. In those very large enterprises, Tandberg was generally the incumb...
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    SOURCE: The Street 1 month ago
  3. Video communication is really becoming a mainstream market now
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  4. The biggest untapped opportunity is with SMBs, where there is virtually no penetration of video communications today ... The value proposition wasn’t there – systems were too expensive, too hard to use and the bandwidth wasn’t available.
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  1. Chairman Cisco Systems, Inc. John T. Chambers at Wall Street Journal CEO Council meeting on rebuilding global prosperity in Washington, November 17, 2009.
  2. NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 24: John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco, appears on a panel at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on September 24, 2009 in New York City.
  3. BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 04: Visitors look at miniature camcorders at the Flip Video stand on opening day at the IFA technology trade fair on September 4, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The IFA fair is open to the public from September 4-9. Flip Video was recently bought by Cisco.
  4. PERUGIA, ITALY - JULY 24: Emilanio Bonazzoli of Reggina in action during friendly match played between Reggina and Cisco Calcio Roma on July 24, 2009 in Roccaporena di Cascia, Perugia, Italy.
  5. WASHINGTON - AUGUST 06: Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer (L) listens to a question from the audience relayed by Club President David Rubenstein (R) during a breakfast meeting of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. August 6, 2009 at the Newseum in Washington...
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