John Chambers gave the opening keynote for Interop 2006 and touts the Network as the platform, Cisco's market growth, and the recent ~$7 billion acquisition of IPTV-player Scientific Atlanta. One of the slides that really stuck out is the one showing Cisco's dominant market share in not only traditional networking markets, but the rapid rise in the emerging Enterprise VoIP market and widening of its lead in the Security space.Read more about George Ou's experience at Interop 2006 on his blog.
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Bill Detwiler is Managing Editor of TechRepublic and Tech Pro Research and the host of Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Prior to joining TechRepublic in 2000, Bill was an IT manager, database administrator, and desktop support specialist in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.