Making the Cisco connection
Subtitle: the story behind the real Internet superpower
By: David Bunnell, with Adam Brate
Contributors: Brate, Adam
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780471357117
Subjects: Telecommunication; Routeurs (Réseaux d'ordinateurs); Ondernemerschap; Equipment and supplies; Équipement; Routers (Computer networks); Protocollen (informatica); Télécommunications; Inc Cisco Systems; Computerindustrie
Description: "Cisco Systems is known among the technology elite in Silicon Valley as one of the most successful companies to emerge from the Valley in many years. It has been dubbed computing's next Superpower." "The company, which makes specialized computers that route information through a network - acting as a sort of data traffic cop - has captured 85 percent of the market for routers used as the backbone of the biggest network of them all, the Internet." "Making the Cisco Connection deftly traces the networking giant's path to success, from its founding couple, Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack, to current CEO John Chambers. It highlights the company's astounding knack for buying other businesses and making them part of a huge conglomerate; its own highly developed use of technology; and its unusually tight-knit culture. Featuring the perspective of top Cisco executives and competitors, this book reveals how Cisco's technology, employees, and even its competition have blended to make Cisco possibly the most important company shaping the future of communications."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Ch. 1. The truth behind the Cisco legend (1984-1987); title: Ch. 2. The Morgridge years (1988-1995); title: Ch. 3. The inner chambers (1977-1995); title: Ch. 4. The benevolent predator (1996); title: Ch. 5. A day in the life.; title: Ch. 6. Routing the industry (1997-1998); title: Ch. 7. The virtual corporation (1997-present); title: Ch. 8. The new battle (1996-1998); title: Ch. 9. Giving Cisco a voice (1998-present); title: Notes; title: Index.