Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

@a1 This is the most accurate statement here. Take out Cisco and put any switch vendor's name there and it's still accurate. A lot of these "SMEs" out there have zero idea of the future state of anything. It's just generate a report or read log files. Absolutely no vision.

Y'all just making sh-t up

My company just made a huge Nvidia network purchase. Cisco was bloated, slow and inflated the price (we were willing to pay but the Cisco team was like 12 people from different parts of the company. They argued with each other and we could tell that this was not a core competency. Also, there were zero satisfied customers. zero. lots of stats on sales and install metrics. The one customer they told us to talk to said they would not purchase from Cisco again. (should have vetted that one)

Nvidia was #1 because it is designed to work with Nvidia GPUs and Cuda. no brainer

Arista was #2 because they are focused and fast.

Cisco was a very distant #3

It's funny seeing you Sales guys get all worked up. So dramatic all the time. You're like theater kids.

G2, is that you?

fk cisco. sheety company. on life-support. 2 more yrs and it's over.

LOL! Cisco is a dinosaur and nothing like NVIDIA. What ever you are smoking please pass it along! WOW! What you just said is so far from the truth it’s not even funny! Just WOW!

@a1

end-to-end fabric

Hello Mr VP? do you know whats is fabric?

@a2
negativity or a realistic assessment of Cisco?

fanciful positivity is what got you here in the first place, mate

This is where Cisco comes in. Cisco provides the "nervous system"; end-to-end fabric

no, Nividia sells their own networking where it matters

@a1
what utter nonsense. are you in marketing?

Cisco is cannibalizing the "enterprise network layer" through the shift to a full-throated endorsement of AI Agents and AI products.

econ 101- supply/demand. its the customer stupid. When Cisco pushes bespoke products, partners can't scale.
Cisco partners and customers are losing their jobs by the bucket-full. no employees to buy and use cisco's "enterprise network layer"

how many switchports and wifi7 access points does it take to serve an empty hi rise?

As a partner, please use shower before coming to our meetings. Hygiene is a basic responsibility of any adult.

"Get with the program, or get out" I like this and it sounds like the Cisco I knew at one time.

I hope the replies to the original post are indeed true and not more BS,

As a seller this is the farthest from the truth.

One more note from poster @a1. If you don't agree with the post @a1+1k1r7akfm, you indeed do need to go; you don't belong here anymore. If you are under my watch, and you think contrary to my post, sorry but there are greener pastures awaiting you. Get with the program, or get out. Sorry. Tired of the negativity.

It's a common misconception to compare Cisco and Nvidia as if they’re offering identical value propositions. Cisco's AI strategy isn't about competing against Nvidia, it's about complementing Nvidia's hardware with a robust, enterprise-grade networking and security infrastructure that can actually scale AI workloads across global organizations.

Nvidia sells the "brain", the GPU, but without a high-performance, low-latency, secure network to move and manage data between nodes, data centers, and clouds, that brain operates in isolation. This is where Cisco comes in. Cisco provides the "nervous system"; end-to-end fabric, visibility, orchestration, and AI-optimized routing, enabling AI deployments to run securely, efficiently, and at scale.

Let’s also not overlook that Cisco isn’t just reselling Nvidia. Through the Cisco-Nvidia partnership, solutions like Cisco UCS X-Series with Nvidia GPUs and AI-native interconnects (e.g., Cisco Nexus 9000 with telemetry and congestion management for AI/ML fabrics) allow IT teams to build integrated platforms that work out-of-the-box with enterprise security, observability, and compliance; which HP, Dell, and others often deliver as fragmented pieces.

From a business management lens, Cisco is playing to its strengths: capturing value higher in the stack with software-defined networks (ACI, Intersight), cloud integrations, and recurring revenue from AI-focused services and security. That’s not marketing fluff; it’s a business model built on decades of owning the enterprise network layer.

In short: Nvidia builds the horsepower. Cisco builds the highways. Without both, enterprises don’t get very far.