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Response: WAN Optimization Market Declines 12 Percent Sequentially Indicating Softening Demand
The WAN Optimisation market shrank by 12% in Q1. Predictable and unsurprising since WanOp is a enhancing technology that only sells when the market is quiet and stable. Managing WanOp complexity is a problem no one wants.
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Coffee Break – Show 10
This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Show Links Cisco Q1 Slump Drops Ethernet Switch Market HP Links SDN, OpenStack […]
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Coffee Break – Show 10
This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break.
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Coffee Break – Show 10
This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break.Thought: What Facebook Wedge, Cumulus Linux Shows About Network Operating Systems
Facebook develops it's own operating system for switches. This shows that OS's like Cisco's IOS and Juniper's Junos are under attack and devalues those business. The destruction of the software moat means that customers have far more choice for their networks.
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Thought: Why Are There No Good Open Source BGP Implementations ?
It is common wisdom that BGP is awesome because, you know, … something. It runs the Internet therefore it must good. It can be extended and that makes it good. Lots of vendors use it ….. Hang on. When you think about it there are no good, solid BGP implementation in open source. Quagga is […]
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Switch Prices Will Get Cheaper. Design Models Will Change.
For the last 20 years, L2 tree-based network topologies meant that the only practical design methodology was to buy large, vertically scaled switch chassis for the core of the data centre. This limitation was largely due to the tree-structure forced on LAN networking by Spanning Tree Protocol. For every new device at point Access/1 we […]
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The Disconnect. Good Enough Is Good Enough.
A Meeting room. Discussing the possible options for product and vendor strategy. Company urgently needs to avoid capital expenditure and reduce maintenance costs. The engineer across the table is wearing a vendor t-shirt, a few years old and looks a bit tatty. The table and chairs are tired and a bit worn. I took a […]
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Musing: Cisco Playing the Underdog
Couple of quotes from John Chambers keynote during Cisco Live that I seemed to leap out at me: “You are going to see a brutal, brutal consolidation of the IT industry where out of the top five players, only two or three of us will be meaningful in as quick as five years.” “When we […]
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Coffee Break Show 9
This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Show Links Cisco’s 3 Commandments – Drew’s take on Chambers’ CLUS keynote Cisco Faces […]
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Coffee Break Show 9
[player] This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Show Links Cisco’s 3 Commandments – Drew’s take on Chambers’ CLUS keynote Cisco […]
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Coffee Break Show 9
[player] This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Show Links Cisco’s 3 Commandments – Drew’s take on Chambers’ CLUS keynote Cisco... Read more »Briefing: Corsa Technology
Takeaway - Corsa Networks is focussed on provided a hardware data plane for SDN WAN use cases.
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Response: John Chambers sold more than 30% of his Cisco shares in last month. Heavy sales from others. Thats not good.
This article at Seeking Alpha shows that John Chambers sold more than 30% his Cisco shares last month and is just one of 8 other executives who sold significant numbers of shares in the last month.
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Lets Meet: Travelling in San Francisco Jun16-22, 2014
I'm be in San Francisco next week and available of meetings and #BeerOclocks
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Perspective on Arista IPO and Market Positioning
For the last 20 years, a “silicon moat” that has protected Cisco and other networking vendors from market competition. Arista was one of the first startups to embrace merchant silicon,open source software and a modern software development methodology to focus on core value like reliability and features.
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Briefing: HP Helion, Virtual Cloud Networking, FlexFabric 7900, SDN and OpenStack at HP Discover
HP Discover is happening this week and have three announcements that I'm summarising here. They are Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), FlexFabric 7900 switch and a supporting package of consulting to implement cloud in your organisation.
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Network Diagrams: Font Selection and Production Context. Choosing Slab or Thin fonts
Sometimes it looks right in the drawing tool but doesn't look right in the document. I forgot about balancing the image with the way that it looks on the page with words around it. Another post in my series on Network Diagrams.
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Show 191 – Netvisor – the Pluribus Network Hypervisor – Sponsored
Pluribus Networks has a unique approach to Software Defined Networking that turns a network switch into a server and application platform. In this sponsored show, Sunay Tripathi deep dives into Netvisor and explains how it can fit into your network architecture.
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Cisco COO Claims Amazon as Huge Customer and Other Insights
In this transcript from Seeking Alpha, Gary Moore, Chief Operating Office of Cisco claims that " eight of the global ten over-the-top providers like Amazon are huge Cisco customers". For network architect & strategy types, it's worth reading to see how Cisco intends to extract more revenue from your budget. In particular there are several references to Cisco "analytics service offerings" which Mr Moore states are opportunities for upsell in SmartNet maintenance. It might be worth looking into those products to prepare a "defense against the dark arts" from Cisco account managers.
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