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It's a much smaller market than the old "everything with more than one network port should be Cisco" mantra, though. Yeah, Cisco won't disappear any time soon,

• signa11 10y ago
  > Yeah, Cisco won't disappear any time soon, but their market is shrinking. do you think cisco is in danger of becoming SGI of networking ?
  • sitkack 10y ago
    A much smaller company could definitely create these very high end switches and routers, with a business and support model unlike that of Cisco.
    • walrus01 10y ago
      And they won't be trusted or used by large carriers for serious POPs for many years. New manufacturers have tried to show up on the market and sell routers that are designed to be highly redundant and offer a full suite of layer 3 feature set to handle full global v6/v6 routing tables. They've either failed or been acquired. Major ISP backbones are very risk averse, when you're trying to run a six nines availability IP services POP. The routing software needs to be rock solid and mature when you're looking at a twin pair of core routers in a node that might be handling 200-300 Gbps of traffic and critical edge peering/transit connections.
      • monkmartinez 10y ago
        > They've either failed or been acquired. That is certainly not the end of such endeavours. Cisco can't buy ALL of them forever.
        • mrexroad 10y ago
          Many would argue that M&A is Cisco's primary market.