Yet the company is not insulated from the fast-moving digital world.
And unlike its competitor Juniper Networks, which presented a somewhat optimistic picture in its earnings earlier this month, the majority of Cisco's customers are large firms building their own networks, not relatively insulated telecommunications companies.
The Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable said the welfare budget could not be "insulated" from spending cuts that were needed to rebalance the public finances.
"That's how you collect and mine data, and in this backdrop of tight defense budgets, it's an area that's relatively insulated, if not growing, " Hamilton says.
Unions, like businesses, should not enjoy the privilege of being insulated from competition.
Though both produce many "free" and "not free" phones, they are insulated by their diverse product lines, global distribution and economies of scale, he says.
One explanation may be that retailers, insulated from fierce competition, have not passed on cost savings.
But those estimates are primarily calculating the increased utilization that comes from covering an estimated 32 million more people, not the inflationary bump that comes when people are insulated from the price of care.
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All that said, not all members of the currency union head into winter insulated from potential shocks.
The meringue that I'd spread on top of the thin layer of batter had insulated the batter so completely that it did not bake at all.
The company is not immune to the effects of a recession, but it is somewhat insulated.
"It is not reasonable that private sector employees who will never enjoy defined benefit pensions should continue to subsidise public sector workers insulated from economic reality, " its director general Simon Walker said.
Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) and Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) manufacturer PFB Corporation (TSX:PFB, OTC:PFBOF) did not provide an updated outlook in the first quarter, but has seen continuous sales growth over the last several years, despite the downturn, and is expanding manufacturing in the US and has seen favorable pricing trends beginning to emerge.
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