We only know RS and have spent countless years in BS the customers. Where can we go and find next gig before getting canned ? We don’t know other vendors and cloud.
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Without PMs, Cisco would would be toast. I have been a PM for the past 21 years and am loving it.
Cisco could drop every Project Manager and BDM that exist and I'm pretty sure nobody would notice. 99% of the Project Managers I know simply maintain excels and schedule meetings - that's it. The BDMs tend to just get in the way by pestering the folks delivering and selling with useless requests to try to demonstrate their relevance. Agree with previous poster that it would nice to see some back-office folks be shown the door.
Second that on mcast.
Vpn solns of various types using overlay bgp evpn and underlay ( mpls, vxlan) are another very complex area at scale and feature density but widely used. Troubleshooting is end to end
If you can code and troubleshoot multicast, you will always have a job- cause it will always be around and it will always be in some state of being broken.
RS is not going anywhere soon, internet routing still uses BGP and will use for a long time to come,
Enterprise R/S may be converging to SDN but most likely its a fad thing in a few years things will move again from the cloud to on-prem, in the End SDN try s to hide or abstract this in the Cloud but it still is there and still requires proper knowledge and handling.
You're safe for now.... all the duplicate back office people with mbas will finally get the chop. For the past 10 years they made it more difficult to do business with Cisco to protect their own interests. These teams fought each other internally for turf for years. Finally they will get the boot. Good riddance... it will be fun to watch the lord of the flies play out over the next 4 months