Cisco is in the unenviable position of knowing where it needs to go but is in a '78 Buick doing 55 mph on the highway because it's playing it safe. It wants to be in the candy-apple-red Ferrari doing 100 mph, but it's afraid of a major wreck if it makes a wrong move. And well it should be. A major accident early on means it can likely kiss a large share of the application-aware product space goodbye.
Lori MacVittie is an NWC senior technology editor working in our Green Bay, Wis., labs. She has been a software developer, a network administrator and a member of the technical architecture team for a global transportation and logistics organization. Write to her at [email protected].
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