CISCO is evidently still as usual
I totally agree with the first two comments above. Last time I had to deal with Cisco (about 15 years ago) I had enough clout in the company I workd for that I could ban all further acquisition of CISCO gear for internal use and most importantly also ban including any Cisco stuff in what we delivered to our customers. I've been retired for nearly 10 years now, and haven't kept in touch with what's going on in the cooms and networking world, but from teh fist comment above I deduce that Cisco is still Cisco and hasn't changed a bit.