But DeWitt, who cut his teeth at Cisco and Sun, may be on to something.
Running the security technology group at Cisco was, in many ways, as good as it gets.
Big changes at Cisco today, with a shutdown of its Flip camera business, restructuring and layoffs.
At Cisco Systems, the number of mobile devices could soon outnumber the number of employees.
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There are 50, 538 smartphones and tablets in use at Cisco, which has 71, 825 employees.
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"Bad citizens will be marginalized on the Web, " vows Richard Palmer, a security chief at Cisco Systems.
Most of those wi-fi connections, wired and wireless, were supplied by the highly talented team at Cisco.
What I would advise any activist investor looking at Cisco is to do what I did at Yahoo!
DeWitt got his start in Silicon Valley at Symantec and spent two years in senior management at Cisco.
"The people we're helping want to see me, " says Wendel, noting that wasn't always the case at Cisco.
Last year at Cisco, we introduced our variety of the F-117A, a new version of our secure VPN.
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But Lucent is really taking aim at Cisco and the Internet hardware companies.
"It's convenient to buy at Cisco--like it's convenient to buy at Wal-Mart, " but the quality sometimes isn't there, he argues.
At Juniper Networks, a younger Cisco rival, Chief Scott Kriens scoffs at Chambers' grand ambitions and snipes at Cisco's older design.
Yet here's Chambers, talking up the next boom in a conference room outside his office at Cisco's San Jose, California. headquarters.
"For a new company to come in and get it right is rare, " says David Leonard, manager of desktop switching at Cisco.
Another who had edited entries on "Gay Pride" likely works at Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ).
At Cisco, the company attempted to move into commodity type consumer products.
"It's late and unproven, " counters Lawrence Lang, a vice president at Cisco.
Another who had edited entries on "Gay Pride" likely works at Cisco.
Neither Michelangelo Volpi, general manager of the project, nor anyone else at Cisco is too sure why anyone would want this much capacity.
For 10 years, John Chambers at Cisco (CSCO) has systematically forced out any senior executive that showed potential to perhaps take over for Chambers.
Dell's operating costs, including research and development, were 10% of revenue last year, versus 20% at Compaq, 21% at Gateway and 45% at Cisco.
Hilton Romanski is Vice President of Global Corporate Development at Cisco Systems - a busy and demanding job that means his leisure time is precious.
Its price-to-book ratio now stands at 1.7, versus 6.0 at Cisco.
This is a topic that is important to us at Cisco.
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"Bad citizens will be marginalized on the Web, " vows Richard Palmer, a security chief at Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ).
At Cisco, our internal network traffic is nearly 70 percent video, driven largely by the high quality point-to-point video streams of our TelePresence video conferencing systems.
Today, an impressive 51% of employees use mobile devices at Cisco (sad to say, that may top SAP, which has 40% of workers carrying iPads or iPhones).
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Regardless, Robison won't be looking at Cisco's short-term results as much as its outlook for future quarters, a measure he says ties in closely with trends in the U.S. economy.
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