Just heard
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Haven’t heard anything yet about the layoffs. Is it confirmed?
I hope they shut the entire BU…absolute waste of investment. Pathetic quality of products and features. Workload is only increasing with people leaving.
We lost AaronR to zScaler...who else is left...?
I thought Cisco leased their buildings? Cisco owns any buildings?
Despite the company name being a brand and famous anywhere in the world, there is something wrong with it... What is happening to the company?
Viptela is not the nicest SDWAN solution. Bit confusing for most partners who are not Cisco native. Bit overpriced. It's a hard market with a lot of players claiming to do it. Also SDWAN is just glorified policy based routing...
@1hpm I very much agree. However, Viptela was acquired long ago, when Cisco was even more addicted to that fat hardware revenue than it is now. There has been some level of acceptance of the shifting winds.
IBM taking is interested in taking over Cisco's SD-WAN technology to grow its customer base.
IBM taking is interested in taking over Cisco's SD-WAN technology to grow its customer base.
If Cisco was capable of innovating on their routers there would not be any need for SD-WAN.
Viptela was the wrong way to go.They should have bought zscaler and built SASE around that and merged it with ISR and with Anyconnect. I think ultimately SD-WAN will be a transitional technology and it will eventually be a user endpoint to cloud model, even for “local” stuff such as printing, reducing the value of on-prem technologies and the TAM it presents to companies like Cisco. Microsoft will also be a much bigger player in this market, building their own SASE and security cloud and will bundle it with their EA5 for “free”.
This is the challenge for Cisco and I see no easy answers for them.
Just heard from a friend of a friend cisco is selling 20 buildings
2 buildings where?
Funny, they contacted me 2 weeks ago about an SA role for SDWAN, no way would I consider it
Epect layoff end of November
A lot of buyers remorse on Viptela. Was probably not the right acquisition target, around the era of that Romanski guy. When customers actually get behind the wheel - it is very difficult to sell.