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Blog posts tagged with 'Cisco'

Friday, June 26

Happy at Home

By Brad

Via Network World comes news that Cisco has saved an impressive $277 million by allowing employees to work at home with virtual office technology:

Not only does Cisco’s telecommuting technology help the company save on collaboration technologies, but also the company’s telework program makes employees happy, survey results show. Cisco based its productivity savings on the number of billed hours at an average of $91 per hour, with the total figure reaching about $277 million. In addition, the vendor estimated employees garnered fuel cost savings exceeding $10 million per year.

Yet cost savings was not the primary goal of the survey, Cisco executives say.

More information on the benefits of telecommuting—from cost savings to helping the environment—can be found in IIA’s Broadband Fact Book.

Tuesday, June 09

Signs of the Exaflood

By Brad

The Wall Street Journal reports that Cisco Systems is warning that Internet traffic is set to explode by five times the current amount within the next five years. The reason: Internet video.

By 2013, Cisco expect Internet traffic—in this case a broad category that includes delivery of content to televisions and mobile phones—to reach about 56 exabytes per month, up from about nine exabytes per month in 2008. (For those who don’t speak geek, an exabyte is the technical way of saying an insanely large amount of data; there’s a no-doubt apocryphal story on Wikipedia that a study once found that all the words spoken in all of history would only make up about five exabytes.)

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