Cisco Business Growth with Singh
Despite the scandal which has been around Inder Singh lately, the Cisco VP or
Corporate Portfolio Management has been doing his job well. Since Singh joined
up with Cisco in 2008, the company has made some very progressive moves forward
and expanding into a range of tech industries.
At a conference about stocks growths which was sponsored by Robert W. Baird,
Inder Singh talked about the Cisco strategy for growth in the tech industry.
“We started off with areas like storage and security, but really what we did
was we invested to grow $1 billion businesses just around our core business. It
was a strategy that worked well.”
The recent acquisition of the company Tannberg is a good example of Cisco’s
growth strategy. Even though Tannberg and Cisco products overlapped in many
ways, Tannberg was generally viewed as the superior for the niche.
Aside from its acquisitions, Cisco has also made some very important business
gains recently. Comcast has chosen to use the Cisco Aggregation Services Router
9000 (ASR 9000) Series for connecting businesses located in 20+ vital US
markets. These routers are specially designed for delivering mass amounts of
internet traffic and video, both of which will be crucial for businesses. This
technology is made so that it can be grown along with the market need, thus
providing a steady future growth for Cisco.
The ASR 900 is especially optimized for video. As Singh said at the
Baird-sponsored conference, ““we look at the video area as not just a set of
point solutions or point products, but we look at it as the evolution of a
portfolio.”
The influence of Inder Singh can also be seen with the release of the Cisco
Cius business tablet. Even though the Cisco Cius is late on the scene compared
to the BlackBerry Playbook and iPad, it is succeeding in a way that these other
tablets could not. Why? Because Cisco is using their existing technology to make
a comprehensive tablet which offers a multi-faceted business solution.
Some of the impressive tech aspects of the Cisco Cius include using Cisco
TelePresence video conference, Cisco WebEx for having meetings online, Cisco
Quad for social collaborations, Cisco United Presence for IM and emailing, and
Cisco Unified Communications for phone/voice capabilities.
It will be interesting to see what happens with Cisco now that Inder Singh is
in the hot seat. The VP helped Cisco get onto the “hot” lists of many investing
resources, such as TickerSpy.com amongst many others.
In the future from Cisco, we can already expect a large-scale surveillance
project for China. This is a massive ongoing project which will help build up a
framework for China’s interior defense. Also, Cisco has launched the Enterprise
Content Delivery System (ECDS). These new products will focus on delivering
video on demand and live video. What makes the ECDS products stand out is their
ease of use which even non IT savvy users will be able to install and configure.
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