Cisco also had the best business-focused sales force in the industry to sell this gear to customers.

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Ultimately, the camera business might not be the best business for Cisco in the long run.

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With a 2.80% yield, Cisco was already one of the best dividend payers on the market.

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Our customers already understand that Cisco has the architectures, solutions and services to best help them deliver the business results they need and we are honored to work with them and serve them each and every day.

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Evidently Chambers had turned on his computer one morning, clicked on his famous CEO dashboard--reported to be the best sales forecaster on the planet--and had spied a plague of locusts eating Cisco sales.

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Cisco's 42 "distinguished engineers"--the best brains in the company--were told to spend half their time outside the groups they run, looking for novel technologies they could borrow from other products.

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Best of all, Cisco Cius offers IT functions a way to dramatically lower the cost-per-user of provisioning those new experiences.

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Apple responded by saying the lawsuit was "silly" and that Cisco's trademark registration was "tenuous at best".

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