Geeks in the blogosphere (well, 2 that we've noticed) are cooing over a Cisco promo for an interactive online event scheduled for March 4, in which Cisco will "unveil an important new breakthrough innovation." Details are scare other than what you can glean from the registration site, which one geek from 11 Geeks Dot Com has praised as a little Web 2.0 with "marketing behind it [that is] simply genius." The site features five characters, Easter Bunny, The Stork, Santa, Unicorn, and Cupid who each appear in a video teaser about the upcoming event, with an Apple-vs-Microsoft-ad like tune playing in the background. Also, see what Jon Arnold's blog has to say about the teaser.
02/25/08 UPDATE: Cisco Monday announces a 40-core network processor to be used in whatever it is announcing on March 4. Could Cisco be prepping a big router announcement March 4? Read more here.
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bah
Cisco bought a social networking company with an ad network (or some such rubbish) as part of the package a few months back. I expect that this is the 'launch'.
They have been trying to push it at us for months now.
Sorry, couldn't help yawning there.
Getting Colder...
Hi lineecho,
Interesting thought, but you may want to rethink it...
From your posts, you obviously track Cisco closely and know your networking, so I'd certainly appreciate getting your take on the announcement on March 4th.
Until then, do any of the uberuser testimonials resonate with you? (http://www.cisco.com/uberusers) I'm thinking I'm more of a stork, as I feel a bit stranded without connectivity...
Thanks for the comments,
Doug
Cranky Network Cynic
Lineecho doesn't identify with any of these ...-choke-... 'userusers'.
If there was a Cranky Cynical Internetwork Engineer.... now your talking my language.
When the revolution comes, all the marketing people (and the morons who respond to it) will be the first against wall !!!!
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail - Abraham Maslow
Let me guess
Cisco is going to announce that they're replacing all existing routers with rebadged Juniper and rolling out a next generation NEXOS which is another name for JUNOS. Am I close?
Could Cisco be prepping a big router announcement March 4?
UPDATE: Cisco Monday announces a 40-core network processor to be used in whatever it is announcing on March 4. Could Cisco be prepping a big router announcement March 4? Read more here.
ASR 1000
Its about the release of the ASR 1000
Yup, the ASR 1000
Read all about it here
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25634
Oh big deeaaall - more videoconferencing
Cisco releases a new router and all they can bang on about is videoconferencing
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN
I am so tired of hearing about video-blooming-conferencing
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail - Abraham Maslow