The joke is that Cisco network switches never die
In the future the entire network will have been modernized and refitted except for the switches. (Just like some Organs)
Most of the internet infrastructure above the LAN side is actually Nokia switches these days. Cisco has lost a lot of market share. Most of the old Cisco switches are being replaced due to no longer being updated. Security wise, not great to keep an end of life switch.
You will be shocked Howe much old shit is still out there. I know of a few national providers who still have Cisco 7200vxr in production.
I work for an ISP, I definitely know how long old equipment gets held onto. Lol. Not saying it doesn’t happen, just saying Cisco isn’t the ubiquitous quality product it used to be.
salt typhoon enters the chat
Maybe a case of business sector (e.g. ISP vs regular Datacenter or Hyperscaler vs normal businesses)?
You will be shocked
…bet? 😂
https://slrpnk.net/post/16304035
I do not miss scrambling to cover someone else’s tech debt when an executive gets caught with their pants down.
Cisco switches are full of bugs.
The fans keep the bugs out
Everything is though.
They genuinely don’t make them like they use to.
I had some 2950s and 3750s in the same rack on a dirty power circuit and we lost 3 ups and 2 3750s over 5 years but that 2950 just kept working.
But organs do get modernized…
