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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CountryUnited States of America
Under command and control, these different radio systems can interoperate with one another.
In emergency situations, you have a variety of public agencies involved, and they have incompatible radio systems.
Cisco views IP as the future for all communications systems. Cisco IPICS technology has the potential to deliver a platform to provide an inexpensive solution for pervasive radio interoperability that helps organizations dynamically manage the flow of all types of information.
Cisco views IP as the future for all communications systems, ... Cisco IPICS technology has the potential to deliver a platform to provide an inexpensive solution for pervasive radio interoperability that helps organizations dynamically manage the flow of all types of information.
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.
We think of it as a very new capability inside unified communications.
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,
Over time we will expand our technology portfolio to better address even more applications-related information technology challenges.
Our plan is that sometime early next year, we will then start to put this on the Cisco overall price list.
We'll collect feedback from that to see what our next steps should be.
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.
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.