Cisco Bounces Back
Cisco spent much of calendar 2011 playing defense, cutting costs, cutting staff and trying to convince the channel, Wall Street and basically anyone familiar with Cisco's rise to the top of the networking pile that it hasn't lost its guts.
Next year, Cisco will try to show many of its detractors that it's striking back -- and we're already seeing signs of that aggression take hold. From a sharper-teeth strategy for assessing and discussing the competition to what Infonetics called a "blowout" quarter for Cisco in Ethernet switching during 2011 Q3 -- an area where Cisco has taken some lumps throughout the past year -- not to mention its sustained growth in key areas like data center, video and collaboration, the Cisco mojo will be back in action in a big way.
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