Cisco Systems-Plotting a Route to Networking Success, The Internet Analyst News.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000

Recently Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol)
CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) reported one of its best quarter ever. Revenue grew 13.1% quarter-to-quarter and 56% year-to-year. . . Cisco's gross margin of 65% and net margin of 21% are significantly better than each of its three largest competitors in terms of size -- Nortel Networks (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange :NT), Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) and 3COM (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol)
COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist
COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems
COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ) -- and unlike those companies, its balance sheet doesn't carry any debt.

CISCO has a horizontal business model, whereas Lucent and Nortel embrace a more vertical one. . . Investors should note that Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol)
MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy)
MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test
MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy
MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) and Intel (Nasdaq:INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol)
INTC Intercept
INTC Interrupt Controller ) have also adopted horizontal business strategies.

Although Cisco faces some strong competition from Lucent and Nortel, it has said publicly that it is more worried about start-ups -- Juniper, Redback Networks (Nasdaq:RBAK RBAK Redback Networks Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX)
rBAK Remote Backup ) and Sycamore Networks (Nasdaq:SCMR), for instance.

To find out more about Cisco Systems, read the article in Multex.com's The Internet Analyst(sm), http://www.theinternetanalyst.com/individual/000706sections/trendalert.asp

Companies profiled:

Recently Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) http://www.multexinvestor.com/af001215/tickersearch.asp?Ticker=csco

Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT) http://www.multexinvestor.com/af001215/tickersearch.asp?Ticker=nt

Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) http://www.multexinvestor.com/af001215/tickersearch.asp?Ticker=lu

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