It is also aggressively competing with Cisco in networking equipment.
Consider Intel in microprocessors, Cisco Systems in networking equipment and EMC Corp. in corporate computer data storage.
While server and PC vendors have been experiencing flagging sales since the beginning of the year, Cisco Systems, which sells networking equipment like routers and switches, has only felt a fraction of their pain.
Homes and offices were filling up with personal computers sold by the likes of Dell or Compaq, with CPUs from Intel, running on Windows 95 and later iterations of the dominant operating system from of Microsoft, and connected to the Internet with networking equipment from Cisco Systems.
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Demand is particularly strong for networking equipment from companies like Cisco Systems that forms the backbone of modern digital communications systems.
Citigroup upgraded Cisco Systems, the largest computer-networking equipment maker, to "buy" from "hold, " on hopes that a slowdown this year won't be as steep as first expected.
Demand is particularly strong for networking equipment from companies like Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) that forms the backbone of modern digital communications systems.
Dan Scheinman of Cisco, the world's largest maker of networking equipment, says that Shanghai, too, has achieved a critical mass in the numbers of software engineers available.
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At the same time, Cisco's share of its core market, telecom networking equipment, has fallen from 60% to below 50% in some major sectors.
Cisco Systems (CSCO) remains a key supplier of telecommunications and networking equipment that grows with the usage of the Internet.
Once the most valuable corporation in the world back in the late stages of the tech bubble in 2000, Cisco Systems (CSCO) remains a key supplier of telecommunications and networking equipment that grows with the usage of the Internet.
Cisco competes with Juniper, Alcatel-lucent, and Tellabs in communications and networking equipment market.
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The other big networking equipment manufacturers have also been getting into the act, putting increasing pressure on Cisco.
It was something of an off year for Cisco at the show, although the company did announce some new products and customers for its video networking equipment business.
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Citigroup upgraded Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), the largest computer-networking equipment maker, to "buy" from "hold, " on hopes that a slowdown this year won't be as steep as first expected.
As for business customers, Cisco is dealing with Juniper's latest series of corporate networking products, which it claims are ten times faster and less than half as expensive as comparable Cisco equipment.
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