We are pleased to report the 33rd consecutive quarter of revenue and earnings growth. We are especially pleased with the balanced growth rate across almost all countries in both Europe and the Americas.

Changes that used to occur over quarters are literally occurring over months.

Cisco believes that the Internet, and related technologies, will be a key enabler for India to achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation,

While there’s always room for improvement, … we were very pleased with our results in what is a seasonally-challenging quarter.

We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the $1 billion mark for the first time,

Speed is of the essence in responding to a crisis situation, and our focus is squarely on mobilizing resources to help in the relief and rebuilding efforts, while also helping customers and employees recover.

This presents more of a challenge, given our current size and market leadership,

Education and the Internet must go hand in hand, … It will serve as one of the great equalizers.

For those that have fixed exchange-rate regimes, you will need a greater amount of foreign reserves. That’s the case in Belize, it’s the case in the Eastern Caribbean zone and it’s also the case in...

What this industry is about is back to the basics in the new Internet economy; and the basics are profitability, cash flow, productivity and market-share gains,

Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories, … We are especially pleased with the improving business momentum in the U.S. and Asia...

It will change the way we work, live, play and learn,

When completed the new facility will have the capacity to accommodate approximately 3,000 staff,

I would summarize the quarter as balanced, with solid results in a majority of areas,

This is indicative of how quickly CEO caution can put the foot on the brake,

We saw strength across our core switching and routing businesses, as well as traction in our advanced technologies. The service provider and public sector segments, in particular, continue to be solid markets for our products,

The industry growth is there, and it’s there probably for the next decade. So how well we execute will determine what role we play.

Companies such as Echelon are poised to help drive this change with Cisco and extend the power of the Internet from business to the home.

If you can’t retain the people after an acquisition, it’s not worth it.

We’re profitable and have the potential to be very profitable, … We generate cash from operations of over $1 billion per quarter. We have $19 billion in cash and equivalents in an industry that is...

What’s happening is that the two groups assume that the nature of the debate is really a matter of disagreement about their own sides’ core issues. Each side is assuming that people in the other...

China will become the IT (information technology) center of the world. We believe in giving something back and truly becoming a Chinese company.

Cisco will be well placed to continue building our presence in India as a critical part of our research and development efforts and as domestic market for networking products and solutions continues to expand,

India has been and continues to be a strategic market for Cisco both in terms of business opportunities and as a base for outstanding engineering talent,

If it’s set up in such a way that it breaks the conditionality required by the (International Monetary Fund), I think that would be a step backward,

We’re working toward the ability for all Cisco devices to work together and communicate with each other to stop attacks. The idea is that one device can warn another device of a threat.

Let me remind everyone in this room that we are not changing guidance,

The Internet economy continues to create unprecedented growth opportunities for people, companies and countries on a global basis.

If you want to understand what drives Cisco, look at our approach to customers. The manner in which we serve our customers defines our company values and demonstrates our priorities. Cisco is proud to be...

For the first time in a very long time, I believe the external factors are slowly starting to be more positive, … This is still a minority view, held by a minority of our customers,...

with a slight upward bias.

Assume employees are going across a lot of networks. So you have to build in security from the home to any number of networks.

We’re pleased with the solid revenue and earnings per share results Cisco delivered during its second quarter, but also especially pleased with our strong order momentum. This proves our strategy is working in terms of...

We believe our growth rate indicates that Cisco continues to gain market share against our traditional competitors in most product sectors,

There is a good chance India may become our largest total sales market in the whole of Asia.

I’ve never heard of him. I don’t know anything about the speaker so there’s nothing that makes me want to get up early and go to it. I might catch it on TV.

Security has to happen at the infrastructure.

Our overall guidance is to be more conservative in the third and fourth quarters. We expect a much wider range of estimates.

Video is emerging as the key strategic application in the service provider triple play bundle of consumer entertainment, communication and online services.

By combining broadband Internet, phone and video services over a single cable line, we are taking a major step towards implementing future integrated data, voice and video telecommunications on a mass market scale.

Momentum is a little fragile, and when people got excited before, they were disappointed, … But this is the most positive guidance we’ve given in eight quarters, going into a seasonally challenging quarter.

When the economy does pick up, … so will … spending.

It’s not about size, it’s about your ability to make a difference. At that small size, collaboration is all the more important.

Visibility remains limited, and this should come as no surprise, given that our customers’ visibility is limited,

We won’t change at all, … We feel consolidation will continue. We’re seeing more and more movement to fewer networking vendors.

We always try to look three to five years out in the decisions we make and there’s no question that the Cisco brand, our opportunity in the commercial market and the evolution of our leaders...

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

India has the potential to be our biggest market in Asia, bigger than China, in as much as two to five years.

We remain confident about the market opportunity ahead of us over the next three to five years.

We also now believe that this slowdown in capital spending could extend beyond two quarters,