Cisco to get bigger in Japan
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Telecommunications and networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc is planning to launch a new Japanese R&amp;D facility early in 2005 at a cost of $12 million spread over five years.
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The Cisco-Fujitsu alliance will benefit from Cisco&#39;s leadership in IP technology and Fujitsu&#39;s edge in networking products.
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Fujitsu and Cisco have joined hands to produce high-end routers and switches for the Japanese market. Ever since Cisco acquired a few brands earlier this year, its goal was to increase its market shares throughout the world, which didnât happen.
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Fujitsu Limited and Cisco Systems announced a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches for the Japanese markets. Specifically, the companies agreed to jointly develop high-end routers and will collaborate
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LONDON - Cisco Systems and Fujitsu Limited are to collaborate on the development of high end routers and switches and support each other&#39;s products, initially in the Japanese market.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems isÂ on target to meet its growth forecastÂ for this quarter and sees big opportunities over the next several years in collaboration technologies and developing economies, executives told financial analysts on Wednesday. The company said last month it expects revenue to grow 16 percent in the current quarter, ending in October, and Chairman and CEO John Chambers said it stands by that estimate. That was one of few references to current results during a daylongÂ conference for Wall Street analystsÂ at Cisco's San Jose, California, headquarters. Instead, Cisco focused on what it sees as long-term trends that will help it grow. Rich IP (Internet Protocol) communication among employees, friends, and family members will change the way people work and live -- while offering an extra benefit to the router maker. "It really loads networks," a smiling Chambers said. He seesÂ Web 2.0 technologiesÂ such as social networking and wikis moving into enterprises alongsideÂ TelePresence, Cisco's big-screen, high-definition system for audio and video meetings. The company is so confident that enterprises will buy TelePresence that it's planning a suite of line cards for its flagship Catalyst switches that is designed to minimize jitter and other network problems to ensure the best TelePresence experience, said Jayshree Ullal, senior vice president of Cisco's datacenter, switching, and security technology group. Even as it crows about the superior quality of its own system, Cisco is also offering a version of TelePresence that can be hooked up with customers' existing videoconferencing points. The system, called Cisco Unified Conferencing for TelePresence, protects enterprises' investments in other conference platforms and has helped overcome resistance in some sales, Chambers said in an interview at the event. It's one more way to ease customers into TelePresence, along with a recent deal in which Regus Group will set up TelePresence facilities in its rental business centers, Chambers said. Chambers emphasized to analysts that the key to Cisco's success is the big picture. "It isn't anything unique that we're doing here, but it's an architectural play," Chambers said. Despite itsÂ brisk acquisition pace, the company doesn't acquire any technology that can't eventually be tightly integrated with the rest of its service provider, enterprise and home network products, he said. Selling an end-to-end architecture instead of just boxes helps keep Cisco above price-driven competition, said Mark Sue, an equity analyst at RBC Capital Markets, in New York. The company also has high hopes for emerging markets, where it expects year-over-year growth each quarter to average 30 percent to 50 percent over the next few years. The Middle East and Africa are especially hot now, including both oil-producing countries and parts of Africa where foreign aid money is going into networks for education and health care, said Paul Mountford, senior vice president for emerging markets. Meanwhile, in Europe, Cisco sees strong growth in Germany, which has used IT less than the U.K. but is embracing it more as it develops a service economy. Cisco has added numerous technologies to its portfolio in the past few years, including unified communications, wireless, and storage, and wants to pick up its pace. The company hopes to add a new technology every quarter, Chambers told the IDG News Service. One analyst at the conference thinks that's the wrong strategy. Cisco is now facing the same problem Microsoft and Intel did a few years ago when PCs had filled the market, said Samuel Wilson of JMP Securities. Cisco's enterprise customers already have networks, and it has to convince them to upgrade them, he said. But a mature company such as Cisco should admit it's not young anymore and invest in dividends for its investors instead of branching off into new areas, Wilson said. Â
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Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest maker of equipment that directs data over the Internet, on Tuesday said quarterly earnings rose 29 percent on stronger demand for its networking gear.
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Cisco&#39;s Tokyo R&amp;D center, which is scheduled to open in February, will represent an initial investment of $12 million over the next five years.
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Cisco is set to unveil a data-center networking platform that  could take the place of switches that link servers as well as  Fibre Channel devices.
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KDDI Corp. (9433.T), Japan's  second-biggest phone company, said on Monday it plans to offer  fibre-optic broadband services via cables owned by East Japan  Railway Co. (9020.T) to challenge dominant operator Nippon  Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (9432.T).
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Cisco Systems(R) (NASDAQ:CSCO) today announced it has made enhancements to its Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture to ease deployment of a wide range of business-focused and consumer-based services.
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An alliance between US IT giant Cisco and Japan's Fujitsu could help both business boost sales as competition in the market for  broadband equipment ramps up.
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Cisco Systems, Inc. has announced its intent to open a research and development centre in Tokyo, Japan. The company informs that the facility will open in February, 2005, and will represent an initial $12
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Fujitsu Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc. said today they have agreed to enter into a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will help service providers and enterprises build advanced IP networks.
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NEW YORK - Cisco Systems is aggressively trying to build its presence in key growth markets, and it&#39;s using both new products and new acquisitions to do it.
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BEIJING -- Cisco Systems Inc. plans to open a research and development (R&D) center in Shanghai that will focus on developing VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology, the company's chief executive officer (CEO) said Thursday.
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Cisco Systems plans on Monday to introduce a network switch that will increase traffic capacity to 15 trillion bits of data a second.