Why is Cisco’s Board of Directors allowing scandalously exorbitant corporate compensation shenanigans on such an epic scale?

It’s my personal opinion that Cisco CEO John Chambers is doing an “end-run” around federal securities laws by using his “spin-in” strategy to evade his Board of Directors corporate compensation guidelines and its up to Cisco employees to report this to the SEC.

Note: You are not required to be a Cisco employee to receive a monetary award from the SEC.

Sincerely,

Brad Reese

Juniper’s QFabric is a great example of a fully integrated software defined network. Juniper split the data and control planes in it’s routers eons ago. Distributing that control plane and running it on x86 gear, however is the really hard part of solving both the opex and capex challenges of a datacenter network.

Everything else in the datacenter has changed, except for the network. Solving the datacenter network problem for the next decade requires new physical and software architectures. It’s fantastic to see Stacy and you covering this transition with such gusto. Customers have more choices than ever. The explosion of networking start-ups, merchant silicon, and the rise of the network programer means the network industry will likely look very different 10 years from now. Game on.

it is their memo and you might be right.

Happy to talk. You know where to reach me and as always I am open to conversation.

Also, refer to Stacey’s piece that was posted today.

We should have you spend some more time with Cisco if you’re open to it. You’ve leapt to a pretty odd conclusion about our strategy. Cisco’s strategy has always been to build, buy and partner our way to profitable growth. Investments in start-ups and acquisitions have complemented organic innovation at Cisco for decades.

To be clear, organic Cisco innovation in hardware, software, physical, virtual, compute and networking will be crucial to how we address networking programmability at a holistic level.

By making an investment in Insieme we’re merely augmenting our in-house engineering efforts with a bet that we believe could be complementary, not duplicative, or instead of, our home-grown engineering.

For the record, some of the largest ‘emerging web scale’ companies in the world today are actually Cisco’s BIGGEST Nexus and NX-OS switching customers. It’s just plain wrong to suggest this category of company doesn’t use Cisco.

Lastly, and in a similar vein, you overlooked the fact that the New York Times article stated that “a top engineer at Google said Cisco would likely be among the leading players in S.D.N.”

Regards,

David McCulloch
Director, Corporate Communications
Cisco