Cisco’s big-man-in-charge, John Chambers, sent out an email to all employees this week, which outlined a few important things:

-Cisco has lost focus
-Cisco was caught off guard by certain movements within the Networking community (openflow, new products from other vendors, etc)
-Cisco makes it difficult for new product to make it to market
-Cisco has to focus on the core business components, rather than continuing to diversify into low margin consumer markets
-Most importantly, Cisco shareholders, employees, and customers are not happy with the current direction that Cisco has taken

The message is a great read, and gives me hope that Cisco can get back on the ball, and address some of it’s core issues. Kudos to the Cisco team for taking a hard look at where they are, and making decisions to correct their wandering trajectory. Here’s hoping they follow through!

http://blogs.cisco.com/news/message-from-john-chambers-where-cisco-is-taking-the-network/