[sebastos]

Telepresence was incredible, but Cisco completely ruined it with the Tandberg acquisition. They restructured management to accommodate all the new execs from Norway, who just wanted to keep doing what they knew how to do: make more crappy commodity units. Surprise surprise, nobody wants a crappy commodity video chat, especially not a piece of hardware for $ when they could just use skype. Telepresence was best in class, but the Tandberg execs didn't "get it", divested attention into other (useless) areas, and ultimately completely fumbled the ball.