When you’re at the top, is there nowhere to go but down? That’s the predicament Cisco finds itself in, as the king of networking rules both the LAN and the WAN markets. Like Alexander the Great, will Cisco weep if there are no more worlds to conquer? Well, it’s not exactly time to start weeping yet. The company can charge a premium for its products – but new competitors may lure customers by charging much less. And new worlds – like voice over IP, security and wireless networking – are opening up all the time. See where Cisco can go from here in this first of our two-part series looking at Cisco in depth. Cisco learning to roll with the punches http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0519cisco.html?net
When you’re at the top, is there nowhere to go but down? That’s the predicament Cisco finds itself in, as the king of networking rules both the LAN and the WAN markets. Like Alexander the Great, will Cisco weep if there are no more worlds to conquer? Well, it’s not exactly time to start weeping yet. The company can charge a premium for its products – but new competitors may lure customers by charging much less. And new worlds – like voice over IP, security and wireless networking – are opening up all the time. See where Cisco can go from here in this first of our two-part series looking at Cisco in depth.
Cisco learning to roll with the punches
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0519cisco.html?net
HP rolls out powered LAN switches
One of those upcoming competitors is HP, which just last week introduced a bunch of LAN products. Some of those products address those new worlds of VoIP and wireless LANs.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0519infhp.html?net
Blue Titan updates router for Web services
Blue Titan Software this week will release a new version of its Web services router that will provide management capabilities to corporations adopting Web services.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0519bluetitan.html?net
Netegrity adds provisioning to user management package
Netegrity next month is scheduled to integrate provisioning technology into its user management software to help corporations better manage identities across their networks and secure their resources.
