Cisco makes a good base cake.
Cisco 9500 and 9300 good base platforms.
It is the icing on the cakes that the masses are not going to adopt.
Icing such as Cisco DNA.
The point is, the icing part of the cake, like Cisco DNA, is the expected financial and software services add-on that the company needs to transition to a software company.
Are the biggest customers truly adopting these new services like DNA?
Cisco missed the boat years ago when opportunity to build an AWS-ish Cisco-branded cloud service was a possibility.
Now all I need is a firewall entry to have existing on-prem older Cisco gear to work with our AWS VMs.
This is what is happening at Customer after Customer.
This above migration is keeping many of us prior Cisco folks very employed. It is sad to see it, because I am a Cisco advocate.
Tell me the above is wrong and off-base. This is honestly what I am living daily post Cisco but still very actively working on networks on a daily basis.
On -prem Cisco stuff out there now not going away. It just will never be upgraded.