3 Initiatives That Could Rekindle Cisco

It's not exactly a secret that networking name Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is only a shadow of its former self. The company was on top of the world and growing like a weed back in the 90s, when the internet was young. Now it's struggling to drive single-digit growth. The world's technology needs evolved, as did the company's competitors.

It's a bit too soon to label Cisco a has-been and deem it beyond redemption, though. Admittedly, it moved slowly in preparing for the next era of networking. It's ready for the future, though, with three powerful tools at its disposal.

Since its inception, Cisco was known for making top-notch switches and routers built around other manufacturers' chips. That's changed, though. After five years in the making, the company recently introduced its first custom-built networking chip. It's called Silicon One. The processor can power both switches and routers, and work in fixed as well as modular networks. Limiting a network to one kind of processor means deployment costs (as well as headaches) fall.

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