| Cisco: Consumer business to be worth $10 billion in 5 years Cisco wants you to think of its brand when you think consumer electronics. Going against big guns like Apple and Sonos it has been busy pre-briefing journalists about its push into the consumer electronics space, which Cisco CEO John Chambers, said would be worth $10 billion to Cisco in 5 years. Google building own router to replace Juniper? Google is building its own routers due to dissatisfaction with Juniper's systems, according to blog SD Times. More from the bloggers: Is Google developing its own routers? Is it justified to boycott Cisco's open source developer contest? Should open source boycott Cisco's AXP developer contest? That question is getting the open source development community all hot and bothered since it was posed in a ZDNet blog. Cisco mulls adding verbal interview to CCIE exams Cisco is considering introducing a verbal interview portion to its CCIE lab exams across the world. Cisco confirmed that it is running a pilot in its exam lab in Beijing, China that involves candidates taking a 10-minute verbal interview as part of their lab exam. Cisco launches wireless multi-room audio system, digital media NAS The news of Cisco's home entertainment product push came out last month, but today we have learned some more details about the product names, pricing and availability. Also: Is Cisco's price-point too high for its wireless multiroom music system? Riding the downturn: Network vendors eye new markets in '09 Today's rough economy hasn't put the breaks on vendor ambition. Microsoft, Cisco, HP, VMware, Juniper and Avaya have big plans for 2009. Three candidates pass Cisco's network design beta exam; live version to get few tweaks With the pass rate for the CCDE lab beta being 7.7% (lower than the 26% pass rate that has been reported for the CCIE lab), does this signify that the exam was too hard, or is Cisco happy to maintain the high bar for its expert level certification? Plus: Holy crap: I passed the CCDE! Cisco Launches Mix-and-Match Wireless Home Audio System Details are finally out on the most poorly kept pre-CES secret: Cisco plans to enter the wireless home audio fray with a family of mix-and-match components for playing music throughout your home over an existing 802.11n Wi-Fi network. The Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system will consist of half a dozen components, ranging from a miniature boom box called the Conductor--with integrated speakers, a CD player, and an LCD touch screen--to a handheld Controller that has a touch screen for managing all the other system components. China CCIE count grows 11 times more than the U.S. The trend from November's update of the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert numbers continues to show that the growth in CCIEs is coming from outside the United States. Cisco brings WebEx to iPhone Being out of the office without a PC will no longer be an excuse for missing meetings on Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center and Unified MeetingPlace conferencing systems. More on Cisco Subnet
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