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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
Our plan is that sometime early next year, we will then start to put this on the Cisco overall price list.
Over time we will expand our technology portfolio to better address even more applications-related information technology challenges.
We'll collect feedback from that to see what our next steps should be.
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.
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 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.
The Internet and new networking requirements are enough of a disruptor for us to enter a new market.
It will really indicate the power of IP networks to beyond the power of what we're doing today.
We think of it as a very new capability inside unified communications.
It really starts to extend what we call the intelligent information network.
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 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.