We know where Chuck spends his bucks.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/11/26/cisco-layoffs-restructuring-costs-csco-robbins.html
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Cisco likes to claim it is transitioning from a HW to a SW company - but I've seen software centric teams devistated by "limited" restructuring more than once.
Look, it is time to be honest - Cisco is never going to be the innovative company it once was. It might have created much of the backbone of the Internet age, but has absoliutely no idea what to do now.. If you really look for a pattern, you will see that most of the layoffs are just trying to cover costly mistakes that management has made.
Around 2011 there was a push to compete with AWS / Azure and start developing SaaS/IaaS solutions - but instead a handful of directors squashed that with facination with scaled-scrum that neither scaled nor even met the basic team-led development model of scrum.
Our cloud was beyond a joke when compared with AWS (seriuosly, was anyone besides Cisco teams using it?), and just take a look at Teams/Spark to see how good money can be flushed down a toilet. (Seriously, what the the total cost of that project now -- counting calling it has to be getting close to a quarter of a billion, give or take 100 million - on headcount alone!)
Next take a look at management - except for RT nearly everyone from senior manager to VP is STILL there. Most even have been promoted!
Do yourself a favor - ask those that left Cisco what they think of it after being away a year or two. Most will say they stagnated and that the pay wasn't worth the lost opportunities.
This was already posted....
Looks like hw oriented groups in csco are all hard up and dying except enterprise sector where customers still willing to accept a complete nose to tail solution and service from oem
Big telcos and cloud titans are all busy undercutting the oems with open src sw, internal dev efforts, whitebox servers switches and routers even
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180930005048/en/Edgecore-Networks-Introduces-Open-Routers-Service-Provider
Above we have a dense 100g x36 router using latest brcm jericho2 silicon and a wide choice of network OS ! Look ma no xr :(
In a decade csco may have a large enterprise business like hpe, lenovo, ibm, dell and a large patchwork of pure sw companies acquired over time
I guess chambers vision of csco transformation from network co to IT co is finally coming true :)
Any SP oriented group is going to get slaughtered in phases . With select few platforms invested abd rest sent to die in bangalore as usual