We are the group that is responsible for all acquisitions and investments for Cisco, and we look forward to talking with you about the investing process and the marketing environment, today, which is, as we all know, extremely challenging. Some of the sectors they are investing in today are storage components and specialized software companies. The market environment is not one where any and every startup is getting funded. The venture community is very focused on cleaning up its existing portfolio of investments at this time. Venture capitalists are funding technology-oriented companies, as well, so they need a deep technology expertise.
Cisco is focused on investing in certain technologies and markets.
That means that we do not look at each and every business plan that is coming to the venture capital community. Therefore, the first thing to make a business plan interesting for Cisco is that it has to be in a business that is relevant to us today. We are very interested in the following key markets for our company - Optical networking, Wireless infrastructure, Content networking, Storage, and Security. Those markets are where business plans are of interest to us. We are very interested in teams that have strong technology expertise, and background in these markets.