Will London continue to maintain its status as a global financial centre ?

Europe has seen turbulance over the last 5 years, the UK is starting to come to terms with austerity measures and changes in policies in the hope to get UK Plc to return to a position of sustainable economical growth. The Govenor of the Bank of England believes we are not half way through this recession and public confidence in government and the Banks is at an all time low.

Will London remain a great place to do business ? Will organisations be put off by the lack of autonomy post credit crunch ? Those who believe austerity is inn affective look to setup business in less impacted economies ?

If we don’t retain a sense of knowledge, expertise, and a sense of stability then what is left ?

We are loosing influence in Europe and lost confidence in the Euro, yet we do things on the record which say a lot about us as a country of the record!

Give your views on my focus research here : http://www.focus.com/questions/will-london-continue-maintain-its-status-global-financial/ 

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Cisco pulls away from pack in Q3

Outgrew the overall service provider router, Carrier Ethernet switch market in the quarter

Despite a decline in the overall market, Cisco grew revenues in carrier
infrastructure in the third quarter on both an annual and sequential basis.
Synergy Research Group found that Cisco grew share in service provider core and
edge routers, and Carrier Ethernet switches, from 48.7% in Q2 to 52.9% in Q3, 2011.

At the same time, the worldwide market declined 5.3% from Q2 and .5% from the third quarter of 2010, according
to Synergy. And after a drop off in late 2010, Cisco
has now improved its market share in each of the last three quarters, Synergy
found.

Cisco’s revenue growth in the third quarter beat the market trend across all
five major product segments and in three of the four regions. In the Carrier
Ethernet segment, its revenue grew 20% from the previous quarter and reached an
all-time high for the company, according to Synergy.

The other leading vendors all saw their market share decline in the quarter.
Juniper’s carrier infrastructure revenues were the lowest since the third
quarter of last year, but the company still realized year-on-year growth in each
of the last four quarters, resulting in a 22% increase in annualized
revenues.

Synergy attributes Juniper’s success to its modular architecture and focus on
mobile and cloud computing.

Alcatel-Lucent also saw a substantial sequential drop in revenues and market
share. But aggregated revenues from the last four quarters surpassed those from
the previous four, Synergy found.

Synergy says Alcatel-Lucent it is finding some success in its 100G Ethernet
IP/optical upgrade strategy and video/CDN focus.

Huawei revenues dropped off substantially in Q3, and its revenues from the
last four quarters came in slightly lower than the previous four, Synergy
found.

Source : By Jim Duffy on Fri, 11/18/11 – 2:05pm.

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