What’s the big deal? It’s somewhat useful. But why is so more effort being put into it? It’s a tiny revenue impact and isn’t really even integrated with Cisco products. The more time spent focusing on random stuff like this the less time spent winning back our core business which actually matters.
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Marketing. Ooh look a Splunk.
Wall Street like recurring revenues/SaaS
Because the 'core' business is in decline, you need some proper ARR based business (such as TE).
@zvm+1fkDEuSo oh come on who is going to pay for advantage on all their switches for the tiny amount of TE licenses?! They’ll just get TE direct if they like it.
#1 - IMO - It's an additional reason for customers to renew their DNA Advantage/Premier licenses - especially for the sizable portion of the customers that didn't deploy DNAC and are wondering if they should renew those licenses they had to buy with their Cat9k switch.
Outside of that - TE is a pretty slick product and very easy to deploy.
@blw+1fkDEuSo this one seems different because the acquisition was a while ago but they are just now making a big push.
Shiny new object. Whenever Cisco pays a lot for something it becomes top-of-mind. Recall OpenDNS and Viptela when they were shiny.
Agreed. Eyes off the ball for sure.