For routing, he expects easier comparisons as the markets begin to accept Cisco's high-end products. He notes that the only areas of the company's business that have been negative are Brazil, China and Russia as a result of weak orders from service providers. However, excluding service providers, the three regions recorded growth for Cisco Systems. He hopes to see demand among service providers to increase as the third fiscal quarter pushed high-end routing 5% higher due to the first quarter of "significant production use" of Cisco's core CRS-X and NCS routers.