2 September 2010

Cisco to Release a New Router for Metro Networks – GigaOM

Ah, the senseless futility of viral marketing by Cisco. Om Malik makes a few calls and finds out that the upcoming Cisco announcement is a new Metro router to improve Service Provider edge connectivity.

And Cisco thought that a ‘viral marketing’ campaign would generate interest ? In a Metro router ? WTF ?

Once upon a time, Cisco sold stuff. Now we have marketing and its not the same.

A metro router. marketing ? jeez.

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About Greg Ferro
Greg is a Network and Security Architect / Designer / Engineer working freelance in the UK and worked for Resellers, DotCom's, Large Corporate's and Service Providers across a variety of products & Vendors. He prefers to work for end users, believes in the life cycle, total cost of ownership and that near enough is often good enough. He likes talking about himself in the first person to feel "royal", even when hosting the Packet Pushers Podcast on Data Networking. More about Greg at http://etherealmind.com/who-am-i/ and you can follow him on Twitter.

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