2008 is All About The Video

While the 2008 Chinese New Year is the year of the rat, the 2008 Networking new year is the year of the video. Or that's what Chambers and the Cisco executive team hopes will be the case. In 2001 when the networking world was crashing after the bubble burst, Chambers said "it's all about VoIP" -- and as unbelievable as that sounded back then, Cisco made it happen and not only converged the world of traditional voice services onto IP backbones but also used VoIP to drive lots of network infrastructure conversions. Well things are brighter these days and the message from the recent Cisco analyst conference was clear -- Video is the next big thing to drive network spending and infrastructure upgrades for both enterprises and service providers.