Extremely stable, but not extremely secure. This could be said for many companies, and Cisco shouldn't really be singled out here, but I think this is part of t

Extremely stable, but not extremely secure. This could be said for many companies, and Cisco shouldn't really be singled out here, but I think this is part of tptacek's overall point. The world should move away from huge C code-bases for critical infrastructure and adopt "safer" languages (Personally I love Go, but Rust may be a better option for high-speed packet routing).