At the show, Cisco's CEO (pictured) spent about 30 minutes responding to questions posted by avatars in Second Life.
On a fun note, the Second Life software on Chambers' laptop kept on crashing and I'm not sure how much of the CEO's answers went through to the attendees of the 3D virtual world. Interestingly enough, the questions were read by a Cisco employee and all of this didn't seem very... well... *real*! So inspite Chambers "excitement" around 3D virtual worlds and video, it's just not ready for prime time. At least, not in the business world!

Anyway, answering the first question, Chambers reiterated the key takeaways of his morning keynote ( power of collaboration, video...) and also expanded on the importance of the Cisco Live conference.

"This is the one session of the year where people who have large of experience with cisco go to determine what's are strategy... our vision of the future... and a chance to collaborate among their groups"

John Chambers on broadband Internet and WiMax
When Chambers thinks of broadband leadership, he looks at countries like Singapour which deployed fiber to the home at a whopping speed of 1Gb/s! The Cisco chief also believes in WiMax where fixed broadband is not an option.



John Chambers believes in Second Life/3D Worlds
Inspite critics, Chambers believes that 3D Worlds adoption is going to explode. The caveat is bandwith. Which is all good for Cisco as more bandwith means more sales of gears, etc.



Collaboration: a concept becoming reality
For Chambers, collaboration is almost a dream come true. When he suggested to start working on collaboration 7 years ago, few people inside Cisco thought it was a good idea, preferring a command-and-control approach versus a more collaborative one. Now, it seems everybody is on board. For Chambers, collaboration is about building communities of interest and sharing (anything) amongst them, changing business models and the way we live and entertain ourselves. And now Cisco wants to show the way, become that role model for its customers before enterprises adopt Web 2.0 collaborative tools (video especially) en masse.