Cisco looking for a strong quarter as rivals struggle

Despite sluggish capex spending globally by service providers, Cisco is expected to report strong results Wednesday after the bell when it unveils its second fiscal quarter numbers; that could be more bad news for rivals like Juniper Networks, which last month reported a weak fourth quarter and came up short of analyst expectations for the future, causing its stock to slide. Cisco, on the other hand, is likely to continue the rebound CEO John Chambers has engineered over the past two quarters, with gains in both sales and profit. The bigger issue, of course, will be: Can the networking giant continue to grow as telcos pull back on their spending? Article