In today's bipolar market it is hard to buy anything, says Michelangelo Volpi, Cisco's chief dealmaker.

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Ultimately 5, 000 people got Kaval's pitch, including Michelangelo Volpi, head of Cisco's routing business and a fellow Stanford business graduate.

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Neither Michelangelo Volpi, general manager of the project, nor anyone else at Cisco is too sure why anyone would want this much capacity.

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