Review:Cisco ASR9000 Router — Nothing to Look at Here, Move on Please.

I didn’t bother with the Cisco ASR9000 launch thing. Glad I didn’t waste my time. I went the mar­ket­ing pages and had a look at the ASR9000.

No mod­ules, no ship date, no hard­ware inform­a­tion. Not even much mar­ketec­ture inform­a­tion avail­able. The fancy flash present­a­tion doesn’t hide the lack of information.

This makes the Nexus 5000 look like a fully mature product.

So Cisco put a laugh­able “viral mar­ket­ing cam­paign” together to launch a product that doesn’t exist (as I pre­dicted). As if viral mar­ket­ing is going to sell product to Service Providers. What are they thinking ?

Network World thinks the same thing.

What we need now is less mar­ket­ing and more tech­no­logy. Lets hope that Cisco cuts the mar­ket­ing depart­ment when the lay­offs are announced and not engineering.

What’s with the eye candy ?

Did any­one else notice the fancy plastic bits to make it look nice ? Any bets on whether they would actu­ally installed or just tossed in the bin ?

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