THE CISCO PREMIUM

摘要

Cisco systems is a networking vendor first and foremost, but it has a software company's aspirations. CEO John Chambers has signaled plans to unbundle much of the sophisticated software that powers the company's routers, switches, voice-over-IP systems, and other products and offer the code independently of its metal sheath and electronic guts. The change is intended to give customers a la carte flexibility in the way they build and buy systems, Chambers asserts. For Cisco, whose premium prices and fat profit margins already are the envy of rivals, it also represents a potentially lucrative new source of revenue.