While Cisco (NSDQ:CSCO)'s ongoing corporate restructuring has put many of its investment priorities on the back burner, one area to which the networking titan is devoting serious time and resources is in the growth of its services organization, particularly the professional services programs it offers through channel partners.
To hear its services team team tell it, the reason for doing so is clear-cut. Cisco wants to put some distance between Cisco's services programs -- already some of the most highly regarded among tier-one channel vendors -- and those of competing vendors like Hewlett Packard and IBM whom Cisco says don't offer nearly the rewards or potential for partner profitability that Cisco does.
Services now account for more than 50 percent of Cisco partner revenues -- a substantial jump from roughly 10 percent as recently as four years ago. That kind of growth means Cisco services has to be a global channel priority, Nick Earle, senior vice president of worldwide services sales and channels, said. He added that Cisco's strategy around "smart services" is the most partner-friendly in the industry.
Earle was promoted to the role as part of a number of Cisco executive changes this summer, and he serves as the field chief for all of Cisco's global services organizations, with the various Cisco services sales leaders in each of Cisco's sales geographies now reporting to him. Cisco Chief Operating Officer Gary Moore, Earle's manager, retains P&L responsibility for the services business, which is about a $10 billion contributor to Cisco's more than $43 billion revenue pie.
Earle's charter is to make clearer how Cisco expects services field engagements to take place, to offer partners more access to Cisco intellectual capital as they build their professional services organizations, and to leverage development and also acquisitions Cisco's made to automate the delivery of services using software.
The last point is huge, said Earle, who said that buy Cisco has reached a point now where 93 percent of all the services support calls it receives can be handled using software. And that isn't merely automated call center responses, he said, it's the potential to diagnose network problems -- such as a needed upgrade to a later version of Cisco's IOS software -- remotely.
"The moment you have this capability with software, the first benefit is your margins go up, but the second benefit is you can take those software capabilities to your partners," Earle said. "Everything that we have in smart services we make available through partners. They're accessing our capital and they wrap their own unique value around that, whether that's multivendor support, or Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) capabilities."
More services also enable more product sales. wholesale Cisco claims that partners who sell Cisco's Smart Care service -- a network maintenance and monitoring package for SMBs -- end up selling more hardware than partners who don't.
"If a customer's network is more stable and everything's working, they'll buy advanced capabilities and put them on top, such as video," he said. "Partners that are smart services-enabled are selling more hardware. That's a fact."
2011年8月11日星期四
Wholesale Cisco Network Equipment
For Cisco resellers, wholesaling Cisco network hardware from some Cisco suppliers like Routerswitch.com is a better choice than purchasing single one from retailers.
One of the main reasons for buying wholesale Cisco equipment is that you get to save money. Held at the cost of buying in bulk is less because you can get a bigger discount for network hardware you bought or get the VIP service for wholesale customers.
If you are looking for an effective way to save money without compromising the quality of Cisco network hardware that you buy, wholesale Cisco hardware is a great choice. You know, most buy Cisco suppliers provide wholesale service for clients who want to buy certain CISCO items, offering biggest discount, free shipping, earlier delivery, etc.
Nowadays, due to fast development of internet, and to make shopping more convenient and easier, online store is a smart choice to select used Cisco network hardware you need. Because they list detailed purchasing guide, preferential price and full info of every cisco item, which can help you buy cheaper used Cisco equipment.
All in all, wholesaling used Cisco hardware (such as Cisco routers, especially for business and enterprises, Cisco switches: Catalyst 2960, 3560, 3750, 4500 and 6500, Cisco firewall: Cisco ASA 5500 series) benefit you more, biggest discount, competitive price, VIP service, free shipping, special gift, earlier delivery, etc. all these are only for wholesalers. So if necessary, wholesale Cisco network equipment is the best choice for reseller.
More related to Cisco online store
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2011年7月15日星期五
Cisco 7600 Router, Enterprise Head Office Required
The 7600 series is very threatening in the carrier Ethernet services edge (ESE) router market due to its broad range of features and market penetration.And itprovides customers the flexibility of three different form factors: wholesale Cisco 7603, 7606, and cisco7609.
As the most scalable service-rich router in the industry, each chassis offers the ability to bring DS0 to OC-48 WAN connectivity, and 10-Mbps Ethernet to 10-Gigabit Ethernet LAN connectivity to the Internet data centre, metropolitan aggregation, WAN edge aggregation, and enterprise networking applications.
The used cisco 7606 router not only addresses Ethernet switching, routing, and aggregation functions; it also provides support for converged voice, video, and data services as well as extensions to support IP mobility transparently.
Key Features
Chassis ranges: 3-slot (240Gbit/s) , 4-slot ( 320Gbit/s ), 6-slot ( 480Gbit/s), 9-slot (720Gbit/s) and 13-slot (720Gbit/s) [1].
Up to 256 Gbit/s switching fabric capacities and up to 30 Mpps forwarding performance
Interface breadth: Scaling from DS0 to OC-48/STM-16; 10 Mbit/s Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Support for Cisco 7200/7500 Port Adapters via FlexWAN module
IP/MPLS features: MPLS VPN, Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing/ Low Latency Queuing (CBWFQ/LLQ), weighted random early detection (WRED), hierarchical traffic shaping, and Quality of Service
Ethernet subscriber services: 32,000 PPPoE subscribers, 16,000 L2TP tunnels and 16,000 SSG subscribers per MWAM module.
Applications:
Carrier Ethernet: Aggregation of consumer and business service
Ethernet services edge: Personalized IP services
Wireless mesh networking and mobility service convergence
IP/MPLS provider edge routing
Enterprise WAN aggregation
Headquarters core routing
Cisco 7600 Router’s Price &Availability
Cisco 7600 series ranges from US$5000 to US$20000, not all the types are required by enterprise head offices. There are some 7600 series items such as Cisco 7606, Cisco 7609, Cisco 7609-S, Cisco 7606-S; these are popular among large enterprises. Prices of Cisco 7606 and Cisco 7609 are available here:
CISCO7606:List price: US$6,000.00 / Wholesale Price: US$2,940.00
CISCO7609:List price: US$10,500.00 / Wholesale Price: US$5,145.00
CISCO7606-S: List price: US$6,000.00 / Wholesale Price: US$2,940.00
CISCO7609-S: List price: US$10,500.00 / Wholesale Price: US$5,145.00
If you want to know more pricing and purchasing information of Cisco router and other Cisco IT equipments, you can visit Cisco router at RouterSwitch.com…
http://www.router-switch.com/see_all.html
2011年5月16日星期一
Hang-Tough Time for Cisco
Can Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers still turn the networking giant around?
That's the question on the minds of many tech investors in the wake of yet another disappointing quarter. On top of mediocre earnings, cisco router Chambers continued to lower expectations. Increased competition from Juniper Networks (ticker: JNPR; see "Juniper: Emerging Network Star"), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and China's Huawei (002502.China) is taking its toll. But so are internal organizational issues as well as big-picture strategic quandaries, such as how to reposition the company during the current sea-change in enterprise computing.
It's tough to bet against Chambers, who has been at the helm of Cisco (CSCO) for 16 of its 26 years. He is the supersalesman who directed the company through the period of hypergrowth driven by the historic build-out of the commercial Internet. And speaking personally, I have to say he is one of the most respected CEOs I've met in my nearly 25 years as a business reporter. His utterances move markets.
That said, Chambers finds himself fighting some of the toughest battles of his career on multiple fronts. In addition to increased competition, Cisco is suffering from talent drain and a lack of clear direction in pursuit of new products and markets. Exhibit A: the recent closure of the Flip digital video device unit.
Late last year, my colleague Michael Santoli argued that if Cisco reached its long-term revenue growth goals of 12% to 17%, shares would rise to 27 ("Ending the Cisco Skid," Dec. 27, 2010). Shares were about 20 at the time. By February, ws-x4624-sfp-e the stock had risen a couple of bucks. But last Friday, after a week of lousy news, shares closed at 16.88.
In the short run, with shares trading a bargain-basement nine times forward earnings, Cisco's stock could reward investors yet again. But when? And will the recovery have staying power? Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, who has a Buy recommendation, says it may take a "few quarters to fix" the problems. But eventually, the bull sees shares surging back to 29 over 12 months.
Cisco blamed reduced government spending and lower margins on newly introduced products for some of its woes. It acknowledged that competition has stiffened. Switch sales were down 9%. Chambers announced $1 billion in cost reductions, including potentially the largest layoff in company history. ws-x45-sup7-e A Cisco spokesman said that recently launched new products will see fatter profit margins over future quarters as they ramp up and gain more scale.
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT DEMAND for networking gear is growing. The bad news is that the company is suffering from problems that are specific to Cisco, of which some could be systemic and long-term.
In the short term, bulls such as Wu might be right. But over the long haul, Cisco may continue to struggle to find new growth. A recent study by Gartner, the research outfit, entitled "Debunking the myth of the single-vendor network," identifies a huge threat to its core business. ws-x45-sup6l-e Cisco has long told customers that owning a Cisco-only network is more cost efficient, which locked in corporate customers at higher prices. But the study contends that the introduction of a second vendor, such as Juniper or HP, could actually decrease the total cost of ownership of a data network by 15% to 25%.
If that's true, Chambers really has his work cut out for him.
That's the question on the minds of many tech investors in the wake of yet another disappointing quarter. On top of mediocre earnings, cisco router Chambers continued to lower expectations. Increased competition from Juniper Networks (ticker: JNPR; see "Juniper: Emerging Network Star"), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and China's Huawei (002502.China) is taking its toll. But so are internal organizational issues as well as big-picture strategic quandaries, such as how to reposition the company during the current sea-change in enterprise computing.
It's tough to bet against Chambers, who has been at the helm of Cisco (CSCO) for 16 of its 26 years. He is the supersalesman who directed the company through the period of hypergrowth driven by the historic build-out of the commercial Internet. And speaking personally, I have to say he is one of the most respected CEOs I've met in my nearly 25 years as a business reporter. His utterances move markets.
That said, Chambers finds himself fighting some of the toughest battles of his career on multiple fronts. In addition to increased competition, Cisco is suffering from talent drain and a lack of clear direction in pursuit of new products and markets. Exhibit A: the recent closure of the Flip digital video device unit.
Late last year, my colleague Michael Santoli argued that if Cisco reached its long-term revenue growth goals of 12% to 17%, shares would rise to 27 ("Ending the Cisco Skid," Dec. 27, 2010). Shares were about 20 at the time. By February, ws-x4624-sfp-e the stock had risen a couple of bucks. But last Friday, after a week of lousy news, shares closed at 16.88.
In the short run, with shares trading a bargain-basement nine times forward earnings, Cisco's stock could reward investors yet again. But when? And will the recovery have staying power? Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, who has a Buy recommendation, says it may take a "few quarters to fix" the problems. But eventually, the bull sees shares surging back to 29 over 12 months.
Cisco blamed reduced government spending and lower margins on newly introduced products for some of its woes. It acknowledged that competition has stiffened. Switch sales were down 9%. Chambers announced $1 billion in cost reductions, including potentially the largest layoff in company history. ws-x45-sup7-e A Cisco spokesman said that recently launched new products will see fatter profit margins over future quarters as they ramp up and gain more scale.
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT DEMAND for networking gear is growing. The bad news is that the company is suffering from problems that are specific to Cisco, of which some could be systemic and long-term.
In the short term, bulls such as Wu might be right. But over the long haul, Cisco may continue to struggle to find new growth. A recent study by Gartner, the research outfit, entitled "Debunking the myth of the single-vendor network," identifies a huge threat to its core business. ws-x45-sup6l-e Cisco has long told customers that owning a Cisco-only network is more cost efficient, which locked in corporate customers at higher prices. But the study contends that the introduction of a second vendor, such as Juniper or HP, could actually decrease the total cost of ownership of a data network by 15% to 25%.
If that's true, Chambers really has his work cut out for him.
2011年4月28日星期四
Cisco aims network code at 'Linux kernel for the cloud'
Lew Tucker – used Cisco chief technology officer for cloud computing – says that the networking giant has joined the OpenStack project because "a lot" of its customers are running the open source platform and it hopes to "learn" from the project.
"We need to be able to contribute, and we need to be able to learn," Tucker said this afternoon at the OpenStack Design Summit in Santa Clara, California. OpenStack is meant to be a (truly) open source platform for building Amazon-like "infrastructure clouds", online services that provide access to readily-scalable computing resources, including processing power, storage, and networking.
Project co-founder NASA has called it a "Linux kernel for the cloud".
Specifically, Tucker said, buy Cisco wants to create a fourth platform within the OpenStack family dedicated to networking. Currently, the project consists of OpenStack Compute, which handles processing; OpenStack Object Storage, the storage platform; and the OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service, for juggling virtual machine images.
There's an existing blueprint for an OpenStack networking platform, but Cisco recently published a new proposal to the OpenStack wiki. "Though we share the requirements and many of the design concepts/principles with the other NetworkService proposal (many of the contributors are participants in both proposals)," the company said, "the main motivation for this blueprint is to provide OpenStack community a preview of the overall proposal and some of the new ideas, concepts for the OpenStack: NaaS consideration."
After Tucker's talk, members of the community met to discuss the project and how it should interplay with OpenStack Compute, code-named Nova, the platform originally developed by NASA for its Nebula infrastructure cloud. NASA cofounded the OpenStack project last summer along with Rackspace, which contributed the original code with OpenStack Object Storage, code-named Swift. A larger OpenStack networking meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at the summit.
Tucker was previously vice president and chief technology officer for cloud computing at Sun, leading the creation of the defunct Sun Cloud. He joined Cisco just before the launch of OpenStack, and his new company officially joined the open source project earlier this year.
With the nascent OpenStack networking-as-a-service project, Tucker and company aim to provide a set for APIs for creating virtual networks connecting instances running on the OpenStack Nova clouds, and to build various networking services that will work in tandem with this setup, including firewalls and load balancers.
The company also intends to build the network resources required to connect OpenStack "zones" (geographically separate portions of an OpenStack cloud service) or to set up a virtual private cloud similar to those offered by Amazon. With Amazon's virtual private cloud service, you can create a private section of its cloud where you can create a virtual network topology that matches the physical networking setup in your own data center.
Of course, Lew Tucker stressed that refurbished Cisco wants to work alongside members of the community. At the moment, there is no official networking project, and no one is officially leading the effort.
"We need to be able to contribute, and we need to be able to learn," Tucker said this afternoon at the OpenStack Design Summit in Santa Clara, California. OpenStack is meant to be a (truly) open source platform for building Amazon-like "infrastructure clouds", online services that provide access to readily-scalable computing resources, including processing power, storage, and networking.
Project co-founder NASA has called it a "Linux kernel for the cloud".
Specifically, Tucker said, buy Cisco wants to create a fourth platform within the OpenStack family dedicated to networking. Currently, the project consists of OpenStack Compute, which handles processing; OpenStack Object Storage, the storage platform; and the OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service, for juggling virtual machine images.
There's an existing blueprint for an OpenStack networking platform, but Cisco recently published a new proposal to the OpenStack wiki. "Though we share the requirements and many of the design concepts/principles with the other NetworkService proposal (many of the contributors are participants in both proposals)," the company said, "the main motivation for this blueprint is to provide OpenStack community a preview of the overall proposal and some of the new ideas, concepts for the OpenStack: NaaS consideration."
After Tucker's talk, members of the community met to discuss the project and how it should interplay with OpenStack Compute, code-named Nova, the platform originally developed by NASA for its Nebula infrastructure cloud. NASA cofounded the OpenStack project last summer along with Rackspace, which contributed the original code with OpenStack Object Storage, code-named Swift. A larger OpenStack networking meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at the summit.
Tucker was previously vice president and chief technology officer for cloud computing at Sun, leading the creation of the defunct Sun Cloud. He joined Cisco just before the launch of OpenStack, and his new company officially joined the open source project earlier this year.
With the nascent OpenStack networking-as-a-service project, Tucker and company aim to provide a set for APIs for creating virtual networks connecting instances running on the OpenStack Nova clouds, and to build various networking services that will work in tandem with this setup, including firewalls and load balancers.
The company also intends to build the network resources required to connect OpenStack "zones" (geographically separate portions of an OpenStack cloud service) or to set up a virtual private cloud similar to those offered by Amazon. With Amazon's virtual private cloud service, you can create a private section of its cloud where you can create a virtual network topology that matches the physical networking setup in your own data center.
Of course, Lew Tucker stressed that refurbished Cisco wants to work alongside members of the community. At the moment, there is no official networking project, and no one is officially leading the effort.
2011年4月15日星期五
Huge Three Way Trades on Cisco
| A short while ago a large three was spread traded on Cisco, where the June $16 put were sold 15,000 and the June $18/20 call spread was purchased 15,000 times. The trade went off at a total net debit of $0.01. Refurbished Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry and provide services associated with these products and their use. |
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