Cisco may invest more than $500M in new data center located near Dallas, Texas

What has me as to why none of these directors or managers have come out with a reply as to why Cisco does not use the WAAS product in the network.

If this is true that they do not, it would be a huge blow to Cisco against others in this area. They will be seen as liars about using products they sell in its own network.

I wonder is Doug C. has all of the data center moving last night to try to get it in some how and then send some results to him.

You sound like a Cisco competitor or a customer of a competitor. I'm all for thinking about this -- why don't we try it together. The WAAS modules go into ISRs (did you miss that part?); if you do not use ISRs, then you cannot use WAAS modules. I do not know if Cisco uses ISRs in their internal WAN, but given the bandwith requirements for Telepresence, I doubt it.

When you say "it has nothing to do about bandwidth", you are really saying "I don't know what I'm talking about". If you had a 10GE pipe between two sites, would you advocate putting a WAN accelerator on that link? If your answer is yes, then I suggest you resign your position and seek employment in a different field. Whether or not you employ a WAN accelerator has everything to do with available bandwidth and the applications that run on top of the WAN link. Real-time UDP-based applications (like Telepresence) do not benefit from WAN accelerators.

This an unsubstantiated rumour based on the limited knowledge of one engineer. Cisco has thousands of products, not all of which are required in their network. It doesn't mean that they're scared, it means that the product was not required.

I used to work at Cisco in the UK and I know that, in Europe at least, there was a big focus on using all relevant technologies internally.

"Why not install it, use it, speed things up, reduce telco cost and show your customers you use your own products?" You could say the same thing about any one of the hundreds of products Cisco doesn't use. By the same argument, if Cisco uses one version of IOS, then they're scared of all the others.

"It is because things would slow down and people would yell, plus the IT department said no way you are putting that in our network." Rubbish. Absolute bollocks.

I agree with matey-boy above, if this is the way you think then perhaps you're in the wrong industry. Maybe you should open a retail outlet for street meat. Or ice cream.