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| Spotlight Story | | | Robert Lloyd, most likely successor to Cisco CEO John Chambers goads channel partners to wallop HP ProCurve
|  According to a report on ChannelWeb, Robert Lloyd - perhaps the most likely successor to Cisco CEO John Chambers, is goading Cisco channel partners this week at the Cisco Partner Summit in Boston to wallop HP ProCurve: "I think we've been taking too many punches with regard to the competitive landscape and not punching back ... We'll keep it clean, but for you we need to help define the value proposition on why we're a better choice than HP ProCurve. "I'm encouraging all of us to punch back-- with a little bit of class -- and if we get it right, it will make a big difference in the market. In hockey, it's called 'the glare' ... Two people make eye contact, and nobody has to say anything: there's going to be a fight." Also attending the Partner Summit, Cisco CEO John Chambers backed up the fisticuffs urging made by his likely heir and successor: "HP is a competitor, and we're going to have fun competing. We've never had a $110 billion competitor before. "The last time we had this type of opportunity in front of us was with Nortel, Lucent and Alcatel: great companies, and we held our own pretty effectively." Perhaps taking inspiration from the Cisco NetFlow Rap by Mix Master Mitch, it appears Cisco might be getting geared to go "medieval" on HP ProCurve. How so you may ask? Well for starters, Cisco just released its first rap video (as seen below) that extolls Cisco channel partners to grow together and lead. Cisco Video Partner Rap Read full story | | | | Related News: | |  | Cisco CRS-1 birthday candles blown out
Cisco celebrated the fifth anniversary of its CRS-1 core router last week, extolling the fact that it's shipped 3,200 units in that time period to 300 customers. One thing Cisco is not celebrating is its sliding revenue in core routing. According to Dell'Oro Group, Cisco's Q1 revenue declined "sharply" compared to Q4 '08 -- a 20% drop -- and Q1 08, down 29%. The plummet was "primarily due to weaker sales of the CRS-1," Dell'Oro said. Cisco fortifies SMB lineup
At its Partner Summit this week, Cisco unveiled a bevy of products for the SMB market. They include switches, an IP telephony gateway, an IP video surveillance camera, and a new release of telephony software. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. | |
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