| Cisco CEO, John Chambers to visit Australia |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 27 March 2007 | |
  
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Chambers delivered an address in January on the same theme at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and according to the organiser's press release he "identified [the human network] as one of the top four focal points for the company in the next decade." The release said that Chambers had walked the audience through several demonstrations of the human network throughout his presentation, which included devices that self-install and register, RFID technology allowing consumers to purchase sports tickets on their TV and have them delivered to their cell phone, and live TV chats with friends. It concluded "Cisco is uniquely capable of providing the human network, Chambers said, because it has a broad technology base, convergence expertise, strong partnerships and is device neutral, content agnostic, standards based and customer focused." According to Wikipedia, Cisco adopted the term late in 2006. Wikipedia defines the human network as "the social structure composed of individuals, friends, collaborators or other organisations connected through technology using a variety of devices - personal computers, mobile phones, gaming consoles and PDAs. In many instances the term is described synonymously with the architecture of participation. It is the intersection of communications networks and social networks - a telecommunications network where people are the endpoints. Nobody on this network is alone. Ever."{moscomment} |
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