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Sameer Garde, President, Cisco India, and SAARC, talks about how Cisco is reinventing the Network and the companys India play. Excerpts:

- Jyoti Bhagat

While Cisco no doubt has the lion’s share of the Indian networking market, but is that a profitable business with so much commoditization happening? How would you rationalize then Cisco’s focus shift back to networking?

There is a reason, why we are re-inventing the network right now, or why we are focusing back on the core of our business. That is precisely because customers are asking us to do that. Maybe 7 or 8 years ago, you probably had one device in office, you had 2 applications that you possibly accessed on a daily meeting basis. Today you probably have 3-4 devices, 5-6 locations that you access those devices from; you want to connect to WIFI, probably use 25-30 applications; sometimes your iPad, sometimes your laptop. That makes it a very complex environment. So customers come to us and ask us to manage this complexity.