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"Collaboration will be the productivity tool of the next decade... the ability to bring the Cloud to life, in many ways," Cisco chief, John Chambers, said at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco.

"From our perspective, it starts with video... we no longer make devices which are not video capable... Video will be the platform for all forms of communications as we go forward. "

By way of example, Chambers said that seven years ago the company had made high-end routers capable of handling one billion phone calls and had succeeded in selling 6000 of these.

"We now have routers which can do one billion videos. You know where I am headed with this... we have sold 1200 of those," he said.