Huawei gearing up to take on Cisco on its home turf

(Reuters) - Huawei's head of North America, John Roese, said his company is more than ready to take on larger rival Cisco Systems but noted it will take some patience -- and time.

Huawei's head of North America, John Roese, said his company is more than ready to take on larger rival Cisco Systems but noted it will take some patience -- and time. "The U.S. is by far our most ...

Huawei's head of North America, John Roese, said his company is more than ready to take on larger rival Cisco Systems but noted it will take some patience -- and time. "The U.S. is by far our most ...

Whoever is writing the marketing materials at Cisco these days has a sense of humor.

As expected, Cisco sold its home wireless router business, Linksys, to Belkin last week for an undisclosed sum.

By TechCrunch: By John Biggs It’s been a weird decade for Cisco (CSCO). After being a dot-com darling in the late 1990s (everyone wanted a few Cisco routers for their door-to-door pet food delivery services), the company tried its hand at consumer products with the Flip video camera series and, a little while later, Linksys routers. It seems, then, that Cisco's grand consumer experiment is over.

By Jim Van Meerten: Cisco Systems (CSCO) seems to be doing all the correct measures in its bid to reorganize and stay profitable. Recently they identified over $1 billion in possible cost savings and have cut their work force by over 13,000. Recent price momentum over the past month has been positive as this hourly trading chart provided by Barchart shows: