Who Competes With Cisco?

Abstract

In the field of data-networking apparatus and software, Cisco is the one that is globally renowned as the leader. The company is efficiently placed in the market all around the world as the principal choice for its targeted audience to benefit from the ever increasing Demand for urbane technology in an economically enhancing world. Major part of the sales of Cisco is originated within the US and the rest is split up between European countries and the rest of the world

The enlarged use of next-generation network applications that gives out varied signals, such as video, sound, data and voice is the major source for Cisco to benefit from it. The utilization of this high-bandwidth function is stimulating the requirement for an industry-wide networking raise. The IP based routers, switches and related technologies that can support higher level of bandwidth and administer a variety of functions are being facilitated by Cisco. The most important customer of Cisco contains (above 1000 employees), small business (within 1000 employees) and the service providers for information, video and communications, which portrays that Cisco's business growth directly proportional to the general wellbeing of the market, Which leaves Cisco with proposals full of constraints to the end consumers as of now.

Table of Contents

Abstract2

Introduction4

Discussion5

Cisco's survival strategy5

Competitors of cisco6

Cisco vs. Juniper6

Cisco vs. Alcatel-Lucent7

Cisco vs. HP8

Cisco vs. Aruba9

Cisco vs. Polycom10

Conclusion11

References12

Introduction

Cisco Systems have their head quarter in San Jose, California. It is an American multinational corporation that is stretched all around the globe on key locations, which sells the networking equipments along with its designing and manufacturing. Cisco has generated a striking profit of US $11.5 for the year ended 2012 and has a staff of over 60,000. “Cisco” the very name was derived from the name of the city of US, California, San Francisco, due to which the corporation's engineers initially stressed on utilizing the small caps within the letter “cisco”. The principal creation of Cisco was numerous procedural router function, which was adapted by Bosack and then it was originally written by William Yeager, another employee of Stanford. The first CEO of the company held the position for a year time from 1987-88 by the name Bill Graves. Though, in the very year 1988, a new CEO was appointed by the name of John Morgridge. In the year 1990, on the 16th of February, Cisco systems having a capital of $224 million went public and even got registered at NASDAQ the New York stock conversation. In the fall of 1990, Bosack left the company over a dispute which took away $170 million which was 70% of all the capital invested by. Even though, it was not the first time when a company developed and sold network nodes yet, Cisco was being the initial one to have sold marketable flourishing routers assisting numerous networks. In spite of the fact that Cisco was powerfully ingrained within an innovative atmosphere, the very corporation went on to seize the uprising facility supplier atmosphere by introducing great capability manufactured goods for ...