Cisco's Tough Sell for Conference Rooms

摘要

John Chambers, the chief executive officer of Cisco Systems, used to call telepresence his favorite new technology. In 2006, the year Cisco unveiled videoconferencing hardware priced as high as $300,000 per system, Chambers said it would set records for how fast it became a $1 billion business. "This is the first time in my career that I have seen this type of excitement and interest from CEOs for a technology," he said a year later on an earnings call.