Cisco sees 5 percent to 7 percent revenue growth

Cisco expects annual sales growth of 5 percent to 7 percent over the next three years, and expects its restructuring is still ongoing in order to increase profits faster than sales of the company, executives said Tuesday at a conference with analysts.

The ongoing restructuring in the past few months have eliminated several 12 900 jobs through a series of measures, including outsourcing, seen and displaced 22 700 people in total, said President and CEO John Chambers in a speech at the company’s San Jose, California.

The company is sharpening its focus on a few key markets and streamlining its sales process to lower the operating costs, Chambers said. These efforts will continue in the coming years, he said. It began earlier this year, after Cisco released disappointing figures.

“We were fat,” said Chambers. “I mean, we had an additional four or five inches at the waist.”
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Cisco overhauls WAN optimization appliances

Five years after introducing its first WAN optimization devices, Cisco Systems Inc. is upping the range of speed and scalability revised.

“We are launching a portfolio of new devices with high performance and quality of experience for each application in a way that is very easy to implement for IT,” said Inbar Lasser-Rabb, senior director of corporate marketing for WAN optimization products.

Cisco makes the strongest of the six new units, which offers WAVE 8541, 2 gigabytes per second thanks to twice as fast as the WAN optimizer on the market. It can also be 150 000 TCP connections, a third more than any other competitor.
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Cisco cuts 15 percent of its execs amid big layoffs

Cisco Systems, on Monday paid 11,500 jobs for the sale of the layoffs and wage a movement towards a Foxconn plant.

The company was expected to reduce from 5,000 to 10,000 jobs, but rejected liquidation, or potentially the transfer of 11 500 workers.

According to Cisco, the cuts to reduce staff as follows:
• 6500 job cuts, including 2,100 employees have taken early retirement.
• Of the total, were cut 15 percent of vice president and above employees.
• 9 percent of Cisco employees were affected, but that includes the sale of Foxconn.
• Employees will be in the first week of August will be notified.

As a result, Cisco will take the amount of $ 1300000000 in the coming quarters. The first payment of the fee, $ 750 million-will be recognized in the fourth quarter.

Foxconn has announced the sale of Cisco issued a separate set-top factory box. Cisco has 5,000 employees and Foxconn are transmitted. Cisco said no layoffs are expected.

Lady who sold fake Cisco gear sentenced to jail

We all know not to buy routers and servers of man in a trenchcoat Hawking network equipment on the corner, but it turns out, the equipment and piracy have become a bit more complicated in recent years .

A district judge in Virginia ordered 43-year-Chun Yu Zhao, to pay $ 2.7 million in damages for selling counterfeit Cisco equipment. Zhao was also sentenced to 60 months in prison and stripped of his U.S. citizenship.

The Department of Justice is not called Zhao and operation of the company “sophisticated”, but the same can be used for the website of their company, JDC Networks Inc., one of the locations of the equipment hawk counterfeit ring that looks like it was said to Netscape version 1.0, with scrolling text and clever funky “WordArt” Straight Outta writings developed Office 97.

While Zhao and his colleagues are not the costs were much on their Web presence, she spent much of their ill-gotten gains also try to finance the purchase of four homes in Maryland and Northern Virginia and three condominiums for a total wash over $ 2.6 million, a Porsche Boxster, Porsche Cayenne and Mercedes limousine, and seven bank accounts, over $ 1,600,000. Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ordered that the assets confiscated his passport with Zhao.

Zhao was one of 16 crimes sentenced in May, but was sentenced Friday. According to court records, friends and Zhao used counterfeit labels and packaging can mislead consumers. Not surprisingly, it was also found was a pack of lies and deceit behind the operation, including forged documents, import and citizenship applications.

The proceeds of the transaction were hidden in a network of bank accounts and assets on behalf of the Zhao family. In fact, it seems that the way money from just about every possible was taken away from this god awful site.

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