Cisco’s Evolution: From IP Bigot to Interconnect Evangelist

April 18, 2005 - Few people, about, but according to a well-known analyst, Cisco Systems Inc.

Topspin acquisition highlights the companys communications removed from their IP-centric marketing focus.

Topspin market, a row of switches, while supporting traditional Ethernet , as well as Fibre Channel interface, but the company has indeed made his reputation is still in the emerging markets of InfiniBand solutions, and its present market leader.

In this regard, said a big headache, a senior analyst with consultancy firm Illuminata, Topspin acquisition, Cisco is a a significant milestone, type, in the evolution The network giants slowly changing strategy. "Although Cisco is still often seen as an IP-centric company, it has significantly away from the original All-IP - all - - religion, "the industry said, citing Cisco enter the storage area network (SAN) to exchange its space andiamo acquisition system in 2002. "Fibre Channel has had deep-rooted suppliers, in particular Brocade and McData, much higher market share and far-reaching more partners, the incumbent is an established customer and role. The incumbent is still leaders, but Cisco was a notable share and important customers. " Course, when Cisco acquired andiamo, Fibre Channel is a mature technology, market with more than five years old have to be in accordance with its belt. Is not the case, and infinband, compared bonds, said: "InfiniBand, Cisco is buying at an earlier stage of development -- before it has become a de facto standard. This is bought is the clear market leader - the company has already established a relationship striving for excellence key OEM vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun. " Why, then, is Cisco ambitious access to a still immature technology sector? The industry believe that this is a defensive gambling. "This may not be the InfiniBand all-pervasive, all-encompassing singing, all dancing - once the fabric speechless patron predicted, but it far from dead, "he said. "In the very At the very least, it was a premium for high-performance interconnect technology calculated more proprietary or more ... multi-vendor specific as the Myrinet myricom the surface and qsnet. " Moreover, the industry said, infinband prospects in the commercial data center also looking forward to the. "Topspin let Cisco further hedge its still leaves the main betting. Perhaps InfiniBand will eventually replace the Ethernet and Fibre Channel for certain types of tasks. Or perhaps not. In both cases, Cisco will be convincing products, "he wrote. "Cisco is moving towards maturity and upgrade Stack. Surely, this is still behind the sales pipeline network, and put forward many and often bet, what types and sizes of switches customers will buy. But focus more on its core business as the franchise of the Internet choice. " - Stephen swoyer

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