Cisco

In this essay, the author

• Opines that cisco systems is still a powerhouse in their industry.
• Explains cisco, being a market leader, keeps them on top of the market.
• Explains that this money came mainly from interest on cash that they already had.
• Explains how easily products can be upgraded, which is convenient and helpful.
• Explains that it has to constantly be updated in order to make sure that they give their best.
• Describes the benefits of switching between different levels of networks.
• Explains that accessing information that they should not see or may cause trouble on the network.
• Explains that they can make sure that only people that should be on their network are on and that trouble is avoided.
• Explains that this software helps to fulfill the need of growing and the network will still be reliable.
• Explains that lucent was born in 1996 from its parent company of at&t.
• Explains that ascend's cisco products are also involved in cisco.
• Explains that lucent has a very broad range of products that it sells this can challenge leadership.
• Explains that lucent is relying heavily on a few major customers and would be in trouble if anything happened to them. they are trying to broaden their customer base through acquisitions of certain companies.
• Explains cisco's product line has grown tremendously since they started, but they still stick to the same business policies and plans that they had when they first started out.
• Analyzes how cisco's net sales and net income have grown every year for the past five years by leaps and bounds. net sales grew over 64% percent from the 1999 fiscal year to the year 2000 fiscal
• Explains that cisco's growth is due to the growth in the pursuit of sales in foreign countries and the great move they made into china.
• Explains that the higher cost of in-process research and design costs threw off net income.
• Opines that the price of cisco stock has been performing pretty steadily over the last year. the market and technology and dot com companies have been taking a hit in the market.
• Analyzes how the stock reacts to how other stocks of its type are also doing. people buy cisco stock depending on how it is doing compared to its major competition.
• Explains that cisco has a 14.1% profit margin on their products. they get 11.84% returns on assets and 15.03% return on equity.
• Opines that cisco acquires companies steadily to make the bottom line a little shadier. they can't gauge the growth that they are experiencing because of this.
• Explains that cisco is making the move into different types of product lines but their main section is still networks.
• Explains that research into data, voice, and video led to a huge increase in research costs.
• Opines that a leader must be the trend setter and be out at the front of each new leap in technology.
• Explains that cisco is making a big push into foreign markets at this time. the asian market is one of the emerging markets for networks and internet tools.
• Explains cisco spent over one billion dollars more on sales and marketing this fiscal year than last.
• Explains that cisco is making more money because of the fifty percent increase in interest and other incoming over the year.
• Describes the products that can be used by themselves in order to connect on to networks as well as components that piece together.
• Explains that cisco has a wide range of products to help them connect onto networks no matter where the network is in your house, business, school, or around the globe
• Explains that cisco products are taking advantage of the ability to transfer data.
• Explains that companies want to be able to have board meetings all over the world at the same time. cisco is making products that make this possible.
• Explains that cisco's routers are the building block of any type of network. they help to move information from one network to another and tell the data which is the best route to travel.
• Explains that cisco caters to this type of business need. they make products that will help the person working right out of their home.
• Explains that cisco provides software to help you set up your website business, handle incoming orders, and make sure that private information sent by customers is actually safe.
• Explains that cisco wants to become the company that a business can go to for all of its network needs. they want to be able to provide their customers with great service and great products.
• Explains that lucent had the shadow of at&t over it to help it out. they had sales of last year of over 38 billion dollars.
• Explains that bell labs is considered one of the best places of invention in the world.
• Explains that lucent had 1,153 us patents in 1999, which was the ninth highest in the united states. this helps it stay at the head of the market which is very important in an industry such as this.
• Opines that at&t will be a loyal customer to them which gives them an advantage because of the great amount of money that they will spend.
• Opines that lucent is just another part of at&t. its inexperience may be a hindrance when it comes to companies that have been around longer.
• Explains that lucent's stock has been hit hard in the last year and is now around eighteen dollars down from a year high of around 80 dollars.