CEO Chambers: Cisco will be more of a software & services company

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	CEO Chambers: Cisco will be more of a software & services company Cisco, the quintessential IT hardware maker, wants you to start thinking about it as software and services company. CEO John Chambers told analysts in New York that the switch/router manufacturer that is also heavily invested in video and server gear that the company plans to double its revenues from software over the next five years from $6 billion to $12 billion, according to a Reuters report. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Keep up with bandwidth usage in real-time – for FREE SolarWinds' free Real-Time Bandwidth Monitor lets you monitor & poll interfaces as frequently as every half-second and reports real-time bandwidth usage on an easy-to-understand graph. Set critical and warning thresholds to instantly see when usage is out of bounds, monitor multiple interfaces simultaneously and more. 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