Seriously asking. Please use this post to answer the question; there are enough existing posts to rant on the negative.
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Is that true, Cisco has a BU for CARS ? Finally, some good news.
No. Not trolling. Asking because I seriously want to know which team is best to be on.
If you have a product with $1B in revenue and your next best competitor has a product with $50M in revenue, you can spend $60M to produce a slightly better product but still be stuck spending another $940M in trying to fix or workaround problems in both software and hardware because of the mess you made over more than three decades. Just because the box is slightly more capable than a competitors doesn't mean the work behind it can't be career death.
On the hardware side they do some world class ASIC and board work with many skills that are transferable. On the software side it's perpetual legacy breakage in markets where the number two players are below 10%, leaving you with no technical skills and no one seeking your business knowledge. Just as the IBM mainframe survived DEC, Sun and others long gone Cisco will persist as the number one player in legacy markets where raising a challenge isn't worth the risk, but you may not and you'll want to make sure you can still get hired elsewhere.
Well it's been top secret for the last few weeks, but there is a big acqusition on the books...CARS.
No. Not trolling. Asking because I seriously want to know which team is best to be on.
the 6500 series switch from 2001
you're trolling for competitive intelligence
@son: Meraki, AppDynamics, Viptella, Tail-f
Obviously Cisco's EBM/LHS Platform*
*Exec-Bonus-Maker From LR-Harvested-Salaries
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Okay, what do you think is the least likely product team to face a layoff ?
The board is named "Topics regarding layoffs at Cisco" - find another forum.