Cisco Systems says it will make a major announcement on Tuesday, news that the technology giant says “will forever change the Internet“. Shares of Cisco gained 3.65% to close at $26.13 Monday, hitting a new 52-week high of $26.36 intraday, as some analysts speculated that the tech giant is rolling out new gear to help wireless phone companies cope with rising video Web traffic. Cisco had sent out invitations to analysts and the media for a “significant announcement” that it says “will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments”. Let the speculation begin!
… that, in fact, the Internet is NOT a series of tubes?
that they will start selling donuts?
Possibly that they have made an intelligent, self repairing, self regulating network to be turned on in 3,2….
“Caution – the page you are about to view contains Steve Ballmer content. Do you wish to continue?”
* YES – I love ranting and arm-waving
* NO – get me out of here
And now, the internet is completely pwned.
Thom, you have way more comment votes than I do
Oracle buyout?
SOFTWARE. HARDWARE. NETWORK. COMPLETE.
Do you know what would probably change the internet dramatically? If Tuesday all Cisco hardware would stop to work due to some bug.
I can think of several things:
1) CISCO introduces security technology to forever block open source protocols and systems from ever connecting to the future internet.
2) CISCO pays off homeland security to make legislation that only allows certain configurations of hardware and software to connect to the internet, which also by the way must be licensed by the FCC.
3) They introduce a new proprietary protocol, patented that is only available to select businesses that can afford to buy it, which by the way is required if you want to hook up to internet 2.
-Hack
PS: CISCO SUCKS ARSE
LOL
Now why would Cisco hurt itself by doing that? They *use* nothing but open protocols and such…
Apparently because
The FOSS intelligence strikes again.
CISCO ARE ARSELOCKERS, they will eventually lock your arse down! we will all end up with locked-down arses!
Now, seriously: your scenario sounds bit paranoid to me.
This won’t probobly ever happen. Why? because we have many environments, which cannot be tight by some business model in ANY way, i.e academics, opensource, healthcare, military sector. They just can’t afford an IT dependance and they will never agree to such form of trade.
The will finally admit that they stole all their starter technology from Stanford and that, yes, you’re not actually getting what you’re paying for.
Edited 2010-03-09 09:42 UTC
Isn’t that Facebook? I get so confused who steals what from what University.
I don’t like riddles…
    _QJ_ aka Grumpy(tm Disney) 😉
Because I am always wrong.
So why not… Wait and See.
Edited 2010-03-09 10:45 UTC
I can just imagine. LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAUyaELfwBo
Thanks for the link. I just ended up wasting 1/2 hour watching clips and added the first three seasons to my netflix queue.
I did too!
we’ve had our share of such announcements every year, its getting old
probably its just some crap as usual.
hey guys did u know intel cpus accelerate the internet and it changed the internet forever!!!
stupid marketing at its best
oh yay i was right!
ok that wasn’t very risky..
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0594332.htm
SkyNet is online… (intel inside)
skyNet is already online and currently being extended:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556585.stm
😛
Anyone cares to translate that announcement into something a tad less technical… I read it and still have no clue what they are talking about…
is it a protocol ? a router ? a whole new thing ?
This is likely what is going to “forever change the internet:”
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9168058/Cisco_unveils_next_I…
“The Cisco CRS-3 triples the capacity of its predecessor, the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, with up to 322 Terabits per second, which enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second;”
Printed? Sounds painful.
“every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously;”
As opposed to being surveiled?
“and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.”
Every motion picture? Even the ones I made in by basement?
The real question is, “can we all hold hands while using it?”
Can I come over to your house for a beer?
Over my 256 DSL line? Fat f’n chance.
The question is, why does it speed them up?
That seems like setting the bar pretty low for “changing the internet forever”. It’s great, but it’s incremental. It’s like saying AMDs 5890 is going to change gaming forever because it’s faster than previous cards. Scaling something up without making fundamental changes is not what I would call “changing something forever”. I mean their “forever” will only last until they make an even faster CRS
Hmm, “The Internet”, is that thing still around?