Notes from Networld Interop
Just finished listening to John Chambers from Cisco at N + I. John was entertaining as usual and was generally optimistic about the networking industry coming back "real soon". He said that we'd be several months into the recovery before anybody realized it.
He showed some interesting graphs about Cisco's growth and the gains in productivity they have realized over the last several years. The most interesting part is that he feels there is more to be had. That's a pretty profound statement coming from a company that you would think has squeezed all they can from the IT fruit...
The general consensus in the audience (pretty small I might add) was that the recovery would be in the next 3 - 5 months. He said that also correlated with a poll he took at a CEO / CIO summit they held a few months back.
Overall size of the show is way down - exhibits are in a single hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center. I haven't hit the show floor yet but I'll do that in a bit. Free wireless is available in the press and Wireless pavillion area. You can get it everywhere for a mere $25 a day...
You'd think they'd have free wireless at a networking show! Novell's Brainshare event had better coverage than this.
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