Charles Giancarlo
Charles Giancarlo
Charles Giancarlo is an Entrepreneur, Investor, and former senior executive of Cisco Systems, a Fortune 50 high tech company. Giancarlo has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor, communications and networking industries. From 2008 until 2013 he was a Managing Director of Silver Lake Partners and served as the Head of their operating group. A senior executive at Cisco Systems from 1993-2007, Giancarlo served as Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Cisco, leading the company’s overall product...
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We'll collect feedback from that to see what our next steps should be.
Our plan is that sometime early next year, we will then start to put this on the Cisco overall price list.
The same technology to stop malicious hosts can also be used to block a server. The Chinese government uses that capability to block servers.
We think of it as a very new capability inside unified communications.
We haven't announced pricing yet, but I think it's compelling given the alternative. It will probably be about 10 cents to the dollar when compared to replacing radios. That's a bargain.
Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.
Because of the lack of interoperability, we can lose billions of dollars in productivity,
We are starting from the scratch . In fact the wireless (phenomenon) will have bigger impact in India and China than US as North America is already wired.
It's not even born at the federal level. It's born by every individual police department, every individual fire department of every small town, not to mention each commercial organization that would want to do something like this would have to replace all of their radios.
It will really indicate the power of IP networks to beyond the power of what we're doing today.
It really starts to extend what we call the intelligent information network.
It's always a challenge whenever you have to nurture more than one culture inside an organization. When I say culture, you have one group that will have one set of priorities, and another with another set. It creates a different cultural environment.
I would say that in general, Cisco is a very strong research and development organization.
Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market.