Changes coming from Cisco?

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Interesting stuff

chrisone

Seems like it is an organization change. Perhaps some people are getting let go, perhaps some segments of cisco are being sold out to other companies. Seems like they are downsizing in some way, like shedding off some fat , like a product line of some sort that has been just a monetary burden.

Probably letting some high end execs go in order to bring in other high profiled execs from other big companies to manage some aspects of the enterprise? perhaps a merger with another big company? i dunno well see in the coming weeks....

networker050184

I can't see how they could have possibly thought things like the flip and set top boxes would be a success. Hopefully they get back to concentrating on getting their routers and switches back on top.

Forsaken_GA

Wonder if that means they'll also be chopping some unnecessary product lines out of the network side. For example, I'd love to know who decided to essentially put the cat4500 and cat6500 business units essentially in competition with each other. I'd also imagine Telepresence going away. It's incredibly cool tech, but it's way too demanding, and waaaay too expensive (not to mention another one of those internally competing business units... we're going to develop telepresence, and then we're going to buy tandberg? wtf?)

Pity though, I live a couple miles away from the Scientific Atlanta facility. Wonder if it'll be going away.

Mike-Mike

networker050184 wrote: »

I can't see how they could have possibly thought things like the flip and set top boxes would be a success. Hopefully they get back to concentrating on getting their routers and switches back on top.

i thought the Flip was successful? I see them everywhere

networker050184

I've never seen one. Who would buy one when you can basically do the same thing with a smart phone these days?

chrisone

Yeah and top end digital cameras take HD video as well.

Ahriakin

networker050184 wrote: »

I can't see how they could have possibly thought things like the flip and set top boxes would be a success. Hopefully they get back to concentrating on getting their routers and switches back on top.

I think a large part of the problem is their own brand will scare away average consumers. Cisco are seen a high end and therefore complicated by the public at large, even if they have a device as easy to use as any competitors that perception will damage sales.

So yes hopefully they can get back to making THE products in their genres. I felt a bit guilty buying my first Juniper book 2 weeks back, but considering their ASA business unit seem to have the forward thinking of a fruit-fly we're going to need other options...