Cisco Systems Inc. warns that orders dropped off dramatically in October, and now it expects revenue to fall in the current quarter.
On a conference all with analysts and investors, Chief Executive John Chambers said he expects revenue to fall 5 percent to 10 percent in its fiscal second quarter, which began Oct. 26.
That indicates revenue will be between $8.85 billion and $9.34 billion, far below the $10.4 billion expected by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.
Chambers said the slowdown already under way in the U.S. spread to Europe, emerging markets and lastly Asia during the last quarter.
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