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BIG trouble in BIG China: Cisco shares fall off a cliff as CEO warns of slump

IT Worker

end of csco

Facebook's Open Compute Switches + Software-Defined networking will be the end of Cisco as we know it. A new era is upon us where bloated vendors can no longer sell their overpriced gear. This is probably as good as it will get for CIsco as switches are their cash cow and that cow will be slaughtered on the altar of Software-Defined Networking. Does not matter what Chambers does, Cisco cannot be successful, it's like going against the tide. At mega-scale (where IT providing is going) nobody buys overpriced custom made hardware. Look at Google, Facebook, Amazon. These are Tier 1. Service providers are Tier 2 and they will be next down the SDN path. Cisco's model is unsustainable.