Chambers: How I'll make Cisco into IT's biggest player

A Q&A with Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers. By almost any measure, Cisco Systems is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, a brisk pace of internal development, and a much-discussed new organizational structure that the company is using to attack a slew of new markets, Cisco's reach extends from the consumer to the enterprise and deep into service provider networks. The company offers everything from personal video cameras to high-end telepresence systems to set-top video boxes to, lately, servers for the data center, in addition to more traditional network gear like routers and switches. But Cisco's real ambition, as articulated by Chambers, is to become the most important IT company of all.