Cisco lost market share in network security appliances and software in 1Q09

Same reason they are losing share in other core areas. Too much focus on other stuff like consumer, videoconferencing, servers and other things they know little about. It causes them to divert resources.

You'll be seeing some announcements from Cisco soon about refocusing on core competencies and centralizing engineer power to focal products and possibly exiting some saturated markets with low revenue.

Maybe because of their concept of proprietary products that require disparaging technologies and overlapping products to perform simple security tasks?

Maybe their costs; hardware, maintenance, manpower and TCO?

Cisco for years (1980 thru mid 2000) expounded on the "highly effective" method of "stateful inspection" as a firewall technology while also yelling at the top of their lungs that application security (traffic normalization and protocol anomaly detection) are too slow a technology to put on your network. what they meant was we cannot put this in a router!

What would these numbers look like if the ASA/PIX was not in the mix. Everyone knows network engineers select Cisco security products and not information security practitioners.

Brad,

You've gotten to the point that you are posting as anonymous to try and spread this idea that you think Cisco is going down.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/43620#comment-212895

Pretty bad. Why don't you just curl up into a little ball and go hide in a corner?

Are you denying that you posted that? Only you comment on "30 to 50 market adjacencies" because you have no idea what it means.

To highlight another message that I posted so your readers can be aware how truly clueless you are

My response to your continuous use of the term "market adjacency"

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Brad,

Just so you never have to quote or paraphrase this again. You keep talking about Cisco's 30 to 50 market transitions and adjacencies. Do you even know that these are not new products or technologies, but rather just action plans to penetrate markets that we already exist in.

One Example is Mexico 3.0. It's a market we already dominate, and with Mexico being a top 10 Economy by 2025, and top 5 by 2050 (Goldman Sachs). We want to be in that market.

Another example is Healthcare. The Cisco Healthcare effort is focused on: Creating and validating Cisco's overall healthcare strategy and using technology to enable effective, timely collaboration among healthcare professionals and institutions.

Another example is Quality. We have a virtual team devoted to the increase in customer satisfaction as well as the quality of our current products (Software and Hardware).

So please Brad, when you talk about market adjacency and transitions, don't use the 30-to-50 as new products but internal initiatives to expand, create quality and improve Cisco's vision.

Get it straight before you speak up

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