Nov. 2018 was the last "gasp" of this org. And a little after than those who led the axing were, themselves, axxed.
But few did remain. BXB as a formal presence is gone, but what of the folks. Is there still a presence there doing "customer journey"?
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Hahaha. A bunch of old Cisco folks here with Pix FW and Local Director. Can you say sticky? Lol.
Because AVI is cr-p or Cisco buying them would have run them into the ground?
Cisco buying AVI networks would have been a disaster.
I wouldn't call Local Director much of a load balancer by todays means, but I guess for the time, sure.
Load balancers, outside of proprietary offerings, we're always available in Linux for free and this, well forks of it really, are what the cloud leverages. Cisco could have taken a step ahead and bought Avi networks before VMware did, and if they had bought Avi, the hope would have been to leave them alone and let them grow, but VMware beat them to that punch. Cisco has let slip away some great chances to acquire great technology, instead they either buy good companies and destroy them, or buy cr-p companies and realize it's a bad idea. Remember Cisco Workload Automation?
Arrowpoint was actually a great product. Ex Cisco guys, nice config interface (IOS like), and very easy to deploy. The next Cisco product called ACE (internally developed) was a disaster to setup. After that debacle, all business was lost for F5, Radware, Netscaler, etc. Cisco decided to give up and exit the market. Maybe a wise move - load balance is now built into AWS and Azure.
Another interesting history note - Cisco invented the first load balancer. It was called Local Director circa mid 90s - which was a special version of PIX firewall code that did destination NAT instead of source NAT.
Arrowpoint was who they bought and ran that further into the ground, when Big IP F5 was already the dominant force to be reckoned with.
Didn't we buy a load balancer company based in BXB 15 years ago? I seem to recall we overpaid by many orders of magnitude. The name escapes me now.
contact center BU
I was using as many alphabet soup acronyms used over the years to get folks to identify the group. Yes its been now 4 years, but still was curious about the team(s).
Sounds like a 5 person contingent is standing firm.
BXB300 does have a CCBU. I believe it is Contact Center BU. Is that what you are looking for?
@gcp+1kEBEtSW If you didn’t get laid off it’s proof we aren’t cutting the dead weight
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OP is asking people about a business unit from 2018. That's 5 years ago. Do you know how often Cisco rebrands and renames products? I know/knew many folks in BXB office, but not necessarily by the BU name.
BXB300 is 2 story building plus labs, I wonder how many cubes are available for employee ? are they open office ?
@zxc+1kEBEtSW OP is asking for an answer from people that don’t know. Why would they spell it out for people that don’t? Your comment doesn’t even make sense.
Not everyone speaks in acronyms. How about clueing us in of what business units the CC and CJ stand for?
BXB campus is not quite dead yet. Cisco still leases BXB300 and several BUs have a presence there.