[Cementjungle]

"We hack network backbones, like huge Internet routers...

Cisco makes most of the routers, so it makes sense that Obama was having meetings with Cisco from early on.

Guest list: Left, from President Obama, Apple chairman and CEO Steve Jobs, Westly group founder Steve Westly, host's wife Ann Doerr, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Genentech chairman Art Levinson, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, venture capitalist John Doerr (host) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Stanford University president John Hennessy, Yahoo president Carol Bartz, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, unknown, Facebook founder, president and CEO Mark Zuckerberg

They're all one big happy family.

[Black Agnes]

Most Cisco routers are Made in China(tm).

How much of this do you really think the chicoms don’t already know?

(very little)

[justa-hairyape]

Many moons ago was in a training class run by a Cisco employee. He was trying to explain how their routers systems worked back then. After asking him a few questions, I came to the conclusion that he had no idea how they actually worked.

From Cisco support community - Nearly all the Catalyst switches are from factories in China. Wireless access points are also in China.

[Lurker]

Take a look at where Cisco routers are manufactured sometime.