It's hard to concentrate because the finance and hr snake about to unleash their layoff plan. Executive managers (cfo, c-suit, etc) have proved for the last 5 years they can not plan or execute to a plan so they execute people. If they were so good at identifying "market transition" the cisco would not be in this mess. There is no plan, no leadership, only cut.
Next week, cisco will fly a bunch of sales donkeys to las vegas to hear rah-rah speeches to feed them BS on innovation, never better time to make money at cisco while help customer outcomes. What Joke! Meanwhile, engineering has little budget to do anything but pretend we innovate in power point. Those left behind will have some happiness but some guilt that they hr and finance monkeys will still look to kill more people around december and again in 2017. it's like sick video game.