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• Cisco's big comeback

  By Ryan Francis | 22 March, 2012 01:24

  Just a year ago, Cisco's stock was taking a beating after the sales failed to meet Wall Street expectations.The company wasn't exactly reeling, but CEO John Chambers knew something had to be done to right the ship.  

• Cisco CEO's pay falls 32 per cent

  By Ann Bednarz | 22 October, 2011 04:01

  CEO John Chambers received compensation valued at $12.9 million in Cisco's 2011 fiscal year, a period when the company restructured operations, shuttered its Flip video cam business and eliminated more than 12,000 jobs. His total pay package is down 32% compared to 2010, when Chambers received $18.9 million, according to documents filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Cisco CEO Chambers: 'I did not want to compete against IBM and HP'

  By John Gallant and Scot Finnie, Eric Knorr | 13 March, 2010 01:55

  In this installment of IDG Enterprise's "CEO Interview Series," Cisco CEO John Chambers talks with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Computerworld Editor-in-Chief Scot Finnie and InfoWorld.com Editor-in-Chief Eric Knorr about Cisco's changing relationship with IBM, HP and others as it forges ahead into new enterprise IT markets.

• Cisco unveils next Internet core router

  By Stephen Lawson | 10 March, 2010 06:55

  Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform.

• Cisco's new structure key to success, Chambers says

  By Stephen Lawson | 09 December, 2009 07:10

  Cisco Systems' whirlwind of activity over the past few months wouldn't have been possible without the company's spread-out management structure, in which about 650 people are involved in cross-functional 'councils' and 'boards' that search out potentially profitable new markets, Chairman and CEO John Chambers told a financial analyst conference on Tuesday.

• Cisco to buy videoconferencing vendor Tandberg for $3B

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 October, 2009 22:29

  Cisco Systems has signed an agreement to buy videoconferencing vendor Tandberg for about US$3.0 billion in cash, it said on Thursday.