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Yes it is excessive. It is also "enterprisey." And finally it is a reason why they are having their lunch eaten by their rivals.
by rednaught 15y ago
Yes it is excessive. It is also "enterprisey." And finally it is a reason why they are having their lunch eaten by their rivals.
- lrm242 15y agoNot really sure what this means, but Cisco is losing because they lost sight of what they were really good at: core networking and applications that fundamentally rely at on really good core networking (for example, IP telelphony: go ask Nortel and Avaya whether they're eating Cisco's lunch). Internally, Cisco has serious Apple envy. They desperately wanted to be seen as a cutting edge consumer company, to the point of hiring some well known former Apple UX designers. They entered markets where they had no business being (Flip) and starved their core business units (can you believe the guys who build the work group Catalyst switches could almost NEVER hire anyone because of budget) to pay for it.
- sgrossman 15y agoThis. Off the top of my head, I can think of the following areas where Cisco has fallen off or missed the boat in the last decade: optical transport, MetroE/mobile backhaul, carrier VoIP(BTS and the like, not IP PBX), metro IP routing. I can't really comment on their enterprise products, but I have heard rumblings that their partner programs have been getting worse and worse, leading VARs and re-sellers to seek better margins from HP and the like.