Cisco found them in part because Mario Mazzola, the one-time head of Olivetti's U.S. development team who now runs Cisco's enterprise line of business, had connections at Italian universities.
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The chief beneficiaries of this trend are firms such as Alcatel, Siemens, UTStarcom and Cisco.Meanwhile, many operators are overhauling their networks to reduce running costs by combining traffic from multiple networks on a single backbone.
That the telephone companies are running out of bandwidth can be seen from their equipment orders.Cisco, the leading supplier of core routers used to direct traffic over the internet's backbone, has just had another bumper quarter, with net income up 37% over the same period a year ago.
"But it's a lot of work trying to educate them on why they should run on commodity hardware instead of expensive servers like CISCO and HP.
Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers John Chambers has pledged to run the router giant for just a handful of pennies, in what's become the derigueur executive gesture amidst the economic downturn (see also: Steve Jobs Steve Jobs ).
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CISCO is going to do some serious work to make sure that Intel's distribution runs screamingly fast and is easy to use on its UCS infrastructure.
"What if all the banks are shut down because they all run the same infrastructure Cisco routers and Microsoft Windows?
Intel, Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, Oracle, perhaps even Dell and Cisco at all of these firms we are seeing a transition occurring or about to occur between the entrepreneurial first generation that created the firm and the managerial second generation that will run it in the years to come.
