Cisco predicts sunlit uplands after COVID-19. For now, though, sales are flat

Cisco has reported a small downwards revenue wobble, but reckons there are better days ahead because the post-COVID world will need more networks. Switchzilla on Tuesday revealed revenue of $11.96bn, up $31m quarter-on-quarter but down $45m year-over-year, for Q2 ended 23 January 2021. Those sums were so small Cisco just …

[sanmigueelbeer]

CEO Chuck Robbins said he thinks that will make for overall higher IT spending and stronger custom from the public sector.

A lot of businesses have tanked. And those businesses who have survived do not have enough money to spend. And a lot of those businesses that have managed to scrape a few dollars will prioritize anything else but the networking gear to spend money on.

If there are some that are able to weather this storm it will not help because, guess what, the Cisco's prices are not really affordable.

Has anyone asked at the "floor price" of Cisco's SD Access? It targeted at business with very deep pockets.

And do not get me started about the "stability" of the codes.

[AMBxx]

Solarwinds

Is there any evidence that use of Cisco kit would have prevented any problems caused by Solarwinds?

[Anonymous Coward]

A couple of weasel words (again).....

Quote: "On the security front, Robbins said......."

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Please ignore! After Snowden and endless IOS bugs, plus endless speculation about NSA-sponsored backdoors.........it's hard not to laugh when the words "Cisco" and "security" appear close together!!

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Re: A couple of weasel words (again).....

The CEO's want us to invest in-cisco and in-security ...

[Sam Crawley]

"revenue from software sold as subscriptions and/or cloud services continued to grow to pleasing proportions of all sales."

Well that's easy to explain - they've simply removed perpetual licences for most products!