John Chambers
John Chambers
customers given remains visibility
Visibility remains limited, and this should come as no surprise, given that our customers' visibility is limited,
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We're taking these steps because of the continuing slowdown in the U.S. economy and initial signs of a slowdown expanding to other parts of the world,
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While we remain cautious about the implications of a brief pause in the current 10-year expansion of the U.S. economy, we believe that Cisco has never been better positioned to help our customers solve their two most important business issues: Increasing productivity and creating new sources of revenue.
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We are continuing to see a number of signs that could be interpreted with the appropriate caveats as optimistic,
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We want to be the most predictable, boring growth company,
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We are making these changes at a time when we are beginning to see signs that our business is stabilizing,
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I believe we are in at least a two-quarter slowdown.
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Changes that used to occur over quarters are literally occurring over months.
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By combining broadband Internet, phone and video services over a single cable line, we are taking a major step towards implementing future integrated data, voice and video telecommunications on a mass market scale.
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By providing the systems that make the Internet work, Cisco is playing a major role in helping customers thrive in the explosive Internet economy. As a result, we are growing faster than all of our key competitors and have been the fastest growing and most profitable company in the history of the computer industry.
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Companies such as Echelon are poised to help drive this change with Cisco and extend the power of the Internet from business to the home.
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In the next two to three years there will probably be only three to five players in this area. The chances to gain or lose market share are exciting.
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India has the potential to be our biggest market in Asia, bigger than China, in as much as two to five years.
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India has rapidly risen to become a major force in the global economy.