Cisco CEO John Chambers said he was "pleased" with the company's performance for the third quarter of its fiscal 2014 – and it beat analysts' expectations yet again – but the networking titan's actual earnings were not much better than last quarter's gloomy results. Revenues for the three months ending on April 26 were $11. …

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Thursday 15th May 2014 04:03 GMT Sanctimonious Prick

Lay With Dogs

Get fleas.

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Thursday 15th May 2014 05:36 GMT Paul J Turner

These will be fondly remembered as the good days...

Now that everybody knows US networking kit comes with NSA-ware, whether the manufacturer is complicit or not.

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Thursday 15th May 2014 07:53 GMT K

No turnaround in sight for weak sales in emerging markets..

"Emerging markets", well what do they expect.. Of course they will show Cisco the middle finger when Cisco are probably asking for 20% of GDP for a few Routers and Switches ;)

Personally, I'd show Cisco the middle finger even if they offered the kit for free!

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Thursday 15th May 2014 19:27 GMT BradReeseCom

Cisco's 9-month FY14 revenue plunged only -$1.4 billion year-over-year

Since Q3'FY13, Cisco has spent $4.575 billion total in cash to acquire Insieme Networks, Ubiquisys, JouleX, Composite Software, Sourcefire, WHIPTAIL and Collaborate.Com.

The financial results that John Chambers delivered to Cisco's shareholders for his $4.575 billion investment in acquisitions?

Why Cisco's sales during the 9-months ending Q3'FY14 plunged by only a mere -$1.405 billion year-over-year.

Sincerely,

Brad Reese

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Friday 16th May 2014 23:16 GMT Anonymous Coward

I don't understand why Cisco would "return to growth" anytime soon. They have basically finished the upgrades to 10g. What is going to cause people to suddenly start buying a lot more Cisco?

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1. Monday 19th May 2014 04:13 GMT Trevor_Pott
  
  "What is going to cause people to suddenly start buying a lot more Cisco?"
  
  Legislation that makes other "value for dollar"++ competitors illegal. That, and Cisco will soon be able to deliver a complete Cisco-branded stack covering everything you need in the modern datacenter. So they'll get the service revenue once they move on to the C) Extinguish: phase of the standards game.
  
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