Comments on: Networking is Cool Again…and that’s good for Cisco

By: classifiedguy

classifiedguy — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:34:47 +0000

So true about healthy competition just in general — “if you don’t have good competitors, then you’re probably in the wrong markets”. Companies that enjoy their status quo and tend to ignore the rest of the competition always cease to exist. Nokia of 2007-2012 is, unfortunately, a sad example of dramatic collapse. So it’s definitely pleasing to see these positive thoughts about competition coming from the official company blog.

As far as network virtualization and other technological achievements, Cisco only proved again and again that it has always been on a competitive edge of innovation.

Great article, and congrats on your acquisition of NDS.

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By: Still no VMware of Networking. Overlays change nothing beneath the surface. - I SDNCentral

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:01:37 +0000

[...] interpretation of reality and not some kind of misdirection. She said in her August 2nd blog entry (http://blogs.cisco.com/news/networking-is-cool-againand-thats-good-for-cisco/), ”“First, SDN, network virtualization and overlay networks (choose your favorite [...]

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By: Brent Salisbury

Brent Salisbury — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:36:23 +0000

Kudos for taking the time to talk to the community. It is that very same community that will be shaping the future of network manufacturing products, which is the reality of commoditization. Cisco’s public verbal embrace of SDN has wether intended or not has helped legitimize the plight, also kudos.

If I may be presumptuous in disagreeing with one comment, the implication that network slicing only being a use case in the research and education market, is probably a bit dated of a perspective. The concept came from R&E but is a well defined shortcoming in today’s network solutions. Slicing is merely another mechanism to provide multi tenancy very similar to our only scalable technique today via MPLS but being arbitrated centrally rather than distributed firmware/NOS and supportable on any SDN enabled platform rather than whatever a vendor sets as the priority or business unit the product comes out of. MPLS is missing from many products because it isn’t deemed a service provider product, as the customer I would prefer to make that decision. Slicing offers that programmatic virtualization agnostic to wether a vendor feels like providing the customer with MPLS or not. Even more interesting in my opinion is the roadmap towards self provisioned network as a service to scale programmatically integrated into the ecosystem via orchestration.

I keep hearing and reading about Cisco participation in OpenStack and am looking forward to seeing it come out of incubation soon. After a recent acquisition the perfect response would be the Nexus1000v, OpenStack and KVM. The hypervisor as value should be crushed as it is abstracted from the user and soon to be abstracted from the operator vis a vi OpenStack.

Keep talking about this, it is important and the biggest change to our industry since Ethernet. Just as the x86 market is being driven by the consumer and community so will the networking industry in trace. The thought of trying to make thousands of devices through the legacy primitives and APIs scale with the exponential growth for the rest of my career makes me open my old C and Python books to go back to writing code

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By: Santanu Ganguly

Santanu Ganguly — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:58:56 +0000

Dear Ms. Warrior,

Many thanks for this indeed! Great quote: “if you don’t have good competitors, then you’re probably in the wrong markets.”

It does help a lot that Cisco’s onePK provides the API’s as at times that proves to be one of the biggest challenges towards data-center virtualization exercises.

I was just wondering: if Cisco would have a position on training programs that addresses the virtualzation market.

With gratitude

santanu

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By: theurbanshopper

theurbanshopper — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:51:26 +0000

Still its very cool in many countries. Specially where there are not many qualified Cisco professionals.

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By: Cisco « Takeoff Technology

Cisco « Takeoff Technology — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:44:06 +0000

[...] In a blog post, Warrior acknowledged that the company is now facing new threats. “We expect to see new competitors. As we often say at Cisco, if you don’t have good competitors, then you’re probably in the wrong markets.” [...]

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:11:37 +0000

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Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:11:11 +0000

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