23 Quotes by Charles Giancarlo

Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market.

I would say that in general, Cisco is a very strong research and development organization.

It's always a challenge whenever you have to nurture more than one culture inside an organization. When I say culture, you have one group that will have one set of priorities, and another with another set. It creates a different cultural environment.

Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.

Because of the lack of interoperability, we can lose billions of dollars in productivity,

Under command and control, these different radio systems can interoperate with one another.

Over time we will expand our technology portfolio to better address even more applications-related information technology challenges.

Our plan is that sometime early next year, we will then start to put this on the Cisco overall price list.

We'll collect feedback from that to see what our next steps should be.