Cisco India hived off as separate geography

Networking major Cisco, which is having a dream run in the
Indian market, hived off its Indian region, giving it a separate geography
status in February 2006. Though this is the company's internal decision, it
shows the growing importance that the company accords to the Indian market.

Speaking to CyberMedia News on the sidelines of its first ITS
meet, Rangu Salgame, President, India and SAARC, Cisco Systems said that the
decision demonstrates that the company has logged the potential of India.

RANGU SALGAME: With Cisco India clocking Rs 2703 crore in 2005 and Y-o-Y growth rate of over 40 percent, the move was bound to happen sooner or later

The specific geography status was previously accorded to
another high growth market-China. With Cisco India clocking Rs 2703 crore in
2005 and Y-o-Y growth rate of over 40 percent, the move was bound to happen
sooner or later. Salgame said that the business verticalization strategy, Cisco
India undertook in 2004 would continue. Cisco has business units for key
verticals-enterprise, ITS, telecom, government and consumer.

He was confident that VoIP adoption in India would spark off
with the government approving the logical partitioning of single integrated
infrastructure for Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN) and Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP).

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