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    Cisco CEO Chambers: Architecture Key to Internet of Everything

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    Jeff Burt
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    June 25, 2013
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      Cisco CEO John Chambers is continuing to push the message that the Internet of Everything is the next big transition for businesses, and that his company is uniquely positioned to help organizations take advantage of it.

      In his keynote address June 25 at the Cisco Live 2013 show in Orlando, Fla., Chambers noted that over the past several years, the company has worked to transform itself from the world’s top networking vendor to the top IT solutions provider. In that time, Cisco has rapidly grown such businesses as cloud computing, collaboration, video and security, and has built up its software capabilities.

      All of that has come as the company has continued to innovate around its core networking capabilities, looking to bring greater programmability, intelligence and application awareness to its offerings and embracing such trends as software-defined networking (SDN). Cisco on June 24 announced a refresh of some of its switch and router product families with capabilities that fall in line with the company’s push to make the network simpler and more flexible, programmable and application-aware.

      The result is a broad architecture that far outpaces what other networking vendors—from Hewlett-Packard and Huawei Technologies to Juniper Networks and Avaya—have to offer, and will help businesses as they deal with the increasing speed of change and innovation, Chambers said.

      “This is architecture. You can’t do that with individual products,” he said, adding that as Cisco has built out its capabilities, many of its networking rivals have remained with their product silos. “It is going to be an architectural race.”

      It’s a message that Chambers and other Cisco executives consistently have been putting out, most recently at the company’s Partner Summit 2013 earlier this month in Boston. Cisco officials said that more than 20,000 people are attending Cisco Live, with another 250,000 attending virtually.

      Cisco officials describe the Internet of Everything (IoE) as essentially whatever is connected to or crosses over the Internet, from people and devices to things and data. As more connections are made, the value to businesses goes up. By 2020, businesses will realize $14.4 trillion in profits from the IoE, according to Cisco executives, who have added that even in 2013, the IoE will generate more than $613 billion in profits. The opportunity is significant, according to Cisco officials, who have pointed out that currently 99 percent of the world is not connected.

      The number of connections will continue to grow, as will the network’s role in helping organizations profit from those connections. According to Blair Christy, Cisco’s chief marketing officer, there currently are about 2.4 billion people and 20 billion things—from computing and mobile devices to machines—connected to the Internet. By 2020, those numbers will grow to more than 5 billion people and 50 billion things.

      “There’s so much opportunity ahead of us,” Christy said before Chambers took the stage. “The network has been at the center of all these [previous] transitions, and the network will be at the center of the next one.”

      Chambers noted Cisco’s strong market positions of many of its businesses, from networking, cloud and video to IP telephony and mobility, and said that Cisco has seen growth in nine of its top 10 product portfolios. All these capabilities, which create an overall architecture, will help businesses adapt to new business models and the rapidly changing landscape, he said.

      “It is a united framework that’s going to allow you to do this with budgets that will be extremely tight,” Chambers told the keynote audience.

      Jeff Burt
      Jeffrey Burt has been with eWEEK since 2000, covering an array of areas that includes servers, networking, PCs, processors, converged infrastructure, unified communications and the Internet of things.

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