The hits in enterprise were yet again deep and shocking for those of us who remain. Key people left. As mentioned elsewhere, SD-WAN is not living up. But what's far worse is SD-Access isn't performing which means the $15B Catalyst businessay be falling apart. Two distinguished engineers in SD-Access left
Ouch is all that needs to be said. And Huawei hires discarded Cisco DEs for a year or two.
SD-WAN is growing and is doing well in the SP segment. I know I work in that area and I have seen our numbers. Our numbers were raised dramatically and we are k–ling it. No not drinking the Koolaid just putting to rest the above comment about SD-WAN " not living up " <— Whatever the f— that broken english of an abortion means... Anyways yes the layoffs have been going on forever. The biggest layoff ( 7k ) employees hit during my first year at Cisco. It was so sad. Many people I had become friends with were let go. Every year after it was the same thing and continues. The business has been shrinking for everyone on the networking / security side except for Fortinet. I was laid off as was my team and most of us found jobs within the time frame given by Cisco at Cisco. One would ask themselves why would you want to stay ? Maybe we just like being abused or maybe we see something in Cisco which has been lost but believe it will be found again. Not sure. One thing is for sure I love Cisco however I do not love the layoffs. Its freaking r—ded as hell. In my position now I can easily leave and get 40k more a year just on salary. Then if you throw in stock options and commission well it goes up a lot more. If thats true then why dont I leave ? Great question. My answer is I love Cisco but at some point soon I am going to have to leave. No one is safe at Cisco it does not matter how good or bad you are. No one cares. You are a number on a ticket as am I and at some point they are going to punch that ticket.
I've heard info that the growth areas got hit hard. That appears to be in conflict with the press releases about aligning towards software and services. Very odd layoff.