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  Cisco's big comeback

  Just a year ago, Cisco's stock was taking a beating after the sales failed to meet Wall Street expectations.The company wasn't exactly reeling, but CEO John Chambers knew something had to be done to right the ship.  

  By Ryan Francis | 22 March, 2012 01:24

  Tags: Cisco, Cisco Systems, Ethernet Switch, freemium, John Chambers, LAN & WAN, security

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  Cisco bounces back

  Cisco has been crowing about its rebound, and with good reason. What a difference a year makes.

  By John Dix | 27 February, 2012 22:31

  Tags: business issues, Cisco, Cisco financial results, Cisco restructuring, Cisco stock, Cisco UCE, Configuration / maintenance, corporate issues, Data Center, financial results, hardware systems, John Chambers, Microsoft, restructuring, Skype, Telecommunication, Unified Computing Environment, videoconferencing, VoIP

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  Cisco: Customers drove us to block Microsoft/Skype

  Cisco's appeal of the European Commission's approval of the $8.5 billion Microsoft/Skype union is customer driven, Cisco CEO John Chambers said this week.

  By Jim Duffy | 24 February, 2012 01:29

  Tags: appeal to EC ruling, applications, Cisco, collaboration, european commission, John Chambers, LAN & WAN, Microsoft, networking, Scientific Atlanta, Skype, software, unified communications, videoconferencing

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  Cisco CEO's pay falls 32 per cent

  CEO John Chambers received compensation valued at $12.9 million in Cisco's 2011 fiscal year, a period when the company restructured operations, shuttered its Flip video cam business and eliminated more than 12,000 jobs. His total pay package is down 32% compared to 2010, when Chambers received $18.9 million, according to documents filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  By Ann Bednarz | 22 October, 2011 04:01

  Tags: business issues, Ethernet Switch, John Chambers, LAN & WAN, personnel, router, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

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  Cisco CEO Chambers: 'I did not want to compete against IBM and HP'

  In this installment of IDG Enterprise's "CEO Interview Series," Cisco CEO John Chambers talks with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Computerworld Editor-in-Chief Scot Finnie and InfoWorld.com Editor-in-Chief Eric Knorr about Cisco's changing relationship with IBM, HP and others as it forges ahead into new enterprise IT markets.

  By John Gallant and Scot Finnie, Eric Knorr | 13 March, 2010 01:55

  Tags: Cisco, HP, John Chambers

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  Cisco unveils next Internet core router

  Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform.

  By Stephen Lawson | 10 March, 2010 06:55

  Tags: carrier ethernet routers, Cisco, John Chambers, routers

• Cisco's new structure key to success, Chambers says

  Cisco Systems' whirlwind of activity over the past few months wouldn't have been possible without the company's spread-out management structure, in which about 650 people are involved in cross-functional 'councils' and 'boards' that search out potentially profitable new markets, Chairman and CEO John Chambers told a financial analyst conference on Tuesday.

  By Stephen Lawson | 09 December, 2009 07:10

  Tags: Cisco, collaboration, JMP Securities, John Chambers, Virtualization

• Cisco to buy videoconferencing vendor Tandberg for $3B

  Cisco Systems has signed an agreement to buy videoconferencing vendor Tandberg for about US$3.0 billion in cash, it said on Thursday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 October, 2009 22:29

  Tags: Cisco, Fredrik Halvorsen, John Chambers, tandberg, video conferencing