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Jeff Doyle: Tribute to the man who got me started

Cisco Subnet blogger Jeff Doyle writes about how much the world has changed in a single generation. In writing about his dad he says, "After the war he joined Southern Bell Telephone Company, and worked there his entire career. The Phone Company has, by extension, always been a part of my life. ... my father never gave up trying to equate what I was doing with what he once did. He could never quite accept my explanation that IP networks were more like electronic postal systems than telephone systems."

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  • Cisco reveals its acquisition integration strategy in a detailed case study Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Thu, 10/09/2008

    There's a lot more to acquisitions than just a handshake. Cisco, which last year acquired 11 companies (this year it has only managed five so far) is offering up its lesson learned from its 120-plus purchases since 1993 in a case study on its site. Although the document was originally released in October 2007, Cisco says it has remained one of its top 10 most downloaded case studies. It offers a detailed look at the company's acquisition integration strategy whose success is measured by whether Cisco retains all of the employees who transferred from the acquired company, whether the acquired company's products and service revenue has been sustained, and the launch of new Cisco products based on the acquired products and technologies.

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  • Cisco VPN CD was full of Mexican music instead of VPN software, says blogger Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Thu, 10/09/2008

    The blogosphere was all in a flutter this morning over a post by Dave, a developer from Melbourne, Australia, who says his employer received a CD for a new Cisco VPN gear that contained not some "boring software" but an "audio disk with 12 tracks of Spanish music." Dave has also posted a sample from track 1. Cue some hilarious feedback to Dave's post from some readers who took the time to discover that the artist is possibly Diego Rivas, and ask whether this means that someone who purchased Diego's CD is now wondering why they have Cisco VPN software.

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