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As-a-service may be more than you think

Cisco Retail

Cisco jumped all in on SaaS ourselves, acquiring WebEx back in 2007. For example, some people think that NaaS is just an operating expense model to pay for networking services like a lease. If this were the case, Cisco could have staked our claim to fame for NaaS a long time ago by calling our leasing/capital financing NaaS.