In reply to Hilton Romanski.

Thank you for your thoughtful response to my points, Hilton. I'll continue to follow this story, because it's of great interest to me (I'm a Cisco shareholder).

Perhaps in future posts you could outline some of the IoE related start-up back-stories -- i.e. how Cisco employees are helping these early-stage companies to gain momentum with their product and market development activities.

I'm eager to learn more about these new upside opportunities, and how the key parts of the business (Cisco subject-matter expert talent) are actively engaged in supporting this long-term IoE growth effort.