Maybe Cisco should look into buying Powerpoint off of Microsoft? Cisco must be the biggest users of it in the world.
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Cisco's senior executives have squandered the company's industry leadership for far too long. Because the ELT had no idea what our customers actually wanted to buy, we've wasted billions of dollars on SVP-vanity projects approved by Chuck. It's what happens when there is no one to tell the emperor that he has no clothes. None have created growth, but all have put money into the senior executives' pockets.
That's the actual goal for tech industry executives - to find the company that will fatten their pockets and ride it for as long as they possibly can. In the late 20th century, the tech industry invented scalable personal computing, mobile phones, the Internet, HTML, advanced silicon, etc. Today, it delivers applications to highlight where someone took a dump on a sidewalk. There's so little innovation, it's pathetic.
Like @dpj+1eqQmoKd, I've worked at two companies that used non-Cisco VPN products. They both sucked big time. Granted, I'm not a huge fan of AnyConnect, but it beats the pants off browser-based plug-ins that only secure web traffic and not SSH. I would say that Cisco needs to have bastion, or 'jump hosts' for SSH so that the VPN isn't needed, but they'd have to have so many to support the number of Linux developers, system admins, etc.
The Apple VPN connection using Cisco IPsec was pretty damn easy to configure and robust. AnyConnect seems to break DNS every time Apple releases a new major version of macOS. Seems that the AnyConnect BU doesn't adequately test against the beta releases, but thankfully once enough users seem to track down the issue with AnyConnect, the BU gets a release out that finally fixes the issue.
All that, to basically say, Cisco no longer innovates, but just keeps the current products running.
Chuck robbins has destroyed the company and offers zero technical leadership only wokeness. Get woke go broke.
Cisco Is not an innovative tech company, it’s a fake tech company. Innovations only on PowerPoint
I wouldn't classify Cisco as a tech company. We sell & market acquired products... similar to an enterprise Best Buy
Well, I took the ER in 2020 and went to another company. We have WebEx and Jabber but everyone uses Zoom and Teams. Cisco apps will be discontinued. I forget the name of the replacement for vpn connections but it too is replacing Cisco. Make of this what you will...
I personally believe the answer is yes, but I'm interested in what other people think.