John Chapman, a cable tech vet who helped to lead the development of DOCSIS was among the execs swept up in Cisco's recent layoffs.
https://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/cable-vet-and-docsis-pioneer-john-chapman-to-exit-cisco
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Quitting? That’s laughable. I had the unfortunate experience of working with this fraud. Watch your ideas around the old man. Someone is in denial of being laid off. Cisco finally saw beneath his facade and BS. Good on you Cisco. Cheers 🍻
Aged out technology off the backs of others, for which he took credit. Quitting? More like a nice way to say you're fired. It's about time they saw he was full of hot air. All talk, no action. Let's not forget Bernie Madoff was also a pioneer.
You really are picking the wrong "old, white guy" to come down on.
John was as sharp as a tack with a fearsome drive to innovate.
If we had a couple of hundred more like him, we wouldn't be in this mess.
34 yrs working on DOCSIS only. now you know why Cisco can't innovate.
As someone who wants both static IPv4 and static IPv6 addresses from business service, the last time I tried this Comcast still hadn't figured out how to do it because they required the customer rent a combination cable router and modem where none of the devices from multiple companies can be correctly configured to provide this functionality, including a Cisco (now Technicolor) cable router and modem.
You want to "innovate?" MAKE STATIC ADDRESSING WORK.
John was involved with the whole migration to packet enabled DOCSIS and the RPD topology in a CIN network. There is still of a lot of cable based stuff out there.
@1amr+1rjInzZD, nope! He hasn't learned how to wipe butt with his left hand like others in Cisco do.
Hasn’t produced anything since DOCSIS?
Ok, so I'm about 100% sure this guy hung around for the severance packaged. Good on him! Being at Cisco that long its VERY good money when they walk you out the door. He's got to be over 55, if so, he'll get even more so he doesn't go legal on Cisco for age discrimination.
Regarding the lowest employee numbers still at Cisco, HR reports show the lowest number was a WPR worker, individual contributor. He clearly knows where all the bodies are buried. Don't mess with him.
@enm+1rjInzZD, not one of the first 100, but somewhere between 200 - 300. I looked him up in the directory.
I forget who it was, but there as a discussion I was part of where someone asked what the lowest ACTIVE employee ID number was, and I think it was in the lower 100's.
There's not many left with 3-digit ID numbers, or even 4-digit numbers. I work w/ a more than a few who have ID numbers between 10K - 15K.
Each LR I see more and more of the best people get the boot and are replaced by H1B's or their jobs are just outright outsourced to India. This isn't the company it was, it's just incompetent, 100% political senior management feeding from the trough until it soon runs out.
He had a 3 digit employee ID. One of the first 100 employees hired if I remember correctly.
cable modems??? those are made in china, costs about $3 bucks each.
Cisco is in managed decline and has no need of pioneers like Chapman on payroll.