CEO John Chambers calls Cisco’s role in networking to be the “plumbing”. What does that entail? Cisco currently carries a wide array products, targed at a variety of clients and consumers.
Cisco’s offerings of products and services fall into five categories: Network Systems; Collaboration, Voice, and Video; Security; Data Center; and Mobility/Wireless products and services. The products and services offered in each category relate closely to one another, and the services offered are designed to be performed on the products Cisco sells. This allows consumers a whole “package” – easy access to both products and support systems.
Network Systems and Collaboration, Voice, and Video are Cisco’s two biggest categories. Network Systems is the “plumbing” Chambers mentions. This is the hardware, software, and know-how necessary to construct networks and transmit data. Collaboration, Voice, and Video is Cisco’s fastest growing category.
For example, within the broader category of Network Systems, Cisco produces physical Routers, Switches, Network Management, Cisco IOS and NX-OS Software, Interfaces and Modules, and Optical Networking. Additionally, Cisco provides services including Network Management Services, Routers and Routing Systems Services, Routing and Switching Services, Server Networking and Virtualization Services, and Carrier Ethernet Services.
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Routers remain Cisco’s primary product.
Collaboration, Voice, and Video is how Cisco allows consumers to communicate with the internet in new, innovative ways. Under the category of Collaboration, Voice and Video, Cisco carries products including Voice and Unified Communications, WebEx, TelePresence, Video, Cable and Content Delivery, Service Exchange and Universal Gateways and Access Servers. It provides services including Voice and Unified Communications Services, Video, Cable and Content Delivery Services, TelePresence Services, Broadband Cable Services and Unified Customer Contact Center Services.
Cisco’s novelty product in this category is TelePresence, a form of video conferencing that makes users feel as though they are actually in location.
Earlier this year, Cisco put out this ad for their collaboration products and services:
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Good job. Couple of typos.With a technical company like Cisco, better explanations about what they do is important. What is the plumbing, exactly? What’s a router? and so forth. And if you include a chart about finances, it’s important that you give some brief interpretation of what it says.