Cisco's Chief kicked-off the company's premier customer event in front of more attendees than last year. And that's inspite of higher travel costs and a recessionary economy.
According to Lance Perry (pictured), Cisco's VP of IT Infrastructure and the conference's host, there are about 500 to 1,000 more attendees this year in Orlando, Florida than there were in Anaheim, California last year.

Wonder if it either reflects the success of the conference, which actually combines 3 events in 1 i.e. Networkers (for network administrators), IT Insights (IT managers) and IT Executive Symposium (CIOs) or the failure of teleconferencing/telepresence and all the "virtual" tools Chambers was talking about earlier.