Cisco grabs first place in our annual reader poll of most powerful network companies.
In the power-grabbing battle between hardware and network operating system, hardware has finally won. For the first time, Cisco crested our annual company Powerometer list, pushing Microsoft down to No. 2 and ending its four-year reign in the top spot. So finds our fifth annual Powerometer survey, in which we asked 250 Network World readers to rate the power of 25 vendors on a scale from 1 to 100, with 100 representing most power. Research firm Research Concepts conducted the survey for us. Interactive Powerometer Compare two or more companies or see them ranked in a couple different ways.