Cisco Flops
Released in the Fall of 2009 this product attempted to compete with Google Gmail and IBM Lotus Notes. Costing $5/mth per user and included Outlook integration and 5GB storage.
What is Cisco Mail?
This American city was the inspiration for the name of a major networking company.
What is San Francisco?
AS
What is an autonomous system?
A networking protocol that uses packet switching to facilitate the transmission of messages. This protocol is heavily utilized within the Internet.
What is TCP/IP?
The default size of an MTU
What is 1500 bytes?
Acquired during the Pure Digital acquisition in March 2009 it was one of Cisco's best-known consumer-focused acquisitions. But, in April 2011 Cisco pulled the plug.
What was the Flip camera?
Cisco ASAs, Check Point IP appliances, and Palo Alto 3200s are all types of this networking device category.
What is a firewall?
BGP
What is border gateway protocol?
The most widely used Layer2 protocol for wired networks. Commonly used within local area networks (LANs).
What is Ethernet?
I am the most popular distance vector routing protocol
What is RIP?
Purchased in Nov. 2005 for $6.9 billion, and later sold for only $600 million, this company made set-top boxes for Cable TV companies when Cisco decided to enter into the market.
Software-Defined Networking was created to separate these (2) layers of the network stack.
What are the data and control planes?
OSPF
What is open shortest path first?
A widely used networking standard for medium range wireless networks. Commonly used in households to supply cellular and personal devices with Internet.
What is WiFi?
ARP replacement for IPv6
What is neighbor discovery protocol (NDP)?
A whole separate box and remote for video chat. Costing around $600, plus a $10/mth subscription. Sold at Best Buy locations. Cisco dumped this product in 2014.
What is Umi?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Acquired in 2010 this major acquisition for Cisco enabled the company to enter into the IP video conferencing marketplace.
What is Tandberg?
VTP
What is virtual trunking protocol?
A wireless networking standard that is faster and has a greater range than WiFi. Commonly used on large military bases to supply Internet.
What is WiMAX?
This is a required standard MTU size for jumbo Ethernet frames.
What is 9000 bytes?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
A successor to the Cisco ASA Series. This Cisco Security Product has been plagued by poor performance and abysmal user feedback. Commonly referred to as a dumpster fire on social media platforms.
What is Cisco FirePower?
After adding a VLAN, onto an existing trunk port on a Cisco switch, users started to report network connectivity issues. What command option did the individual possibly forget?
IS-IS
What is intermediate-system to intermediate-system?
A networking standard for very short range wireless connections. Commonly used to connect cellular devices to smart watches, portable speakers, and fitness trackers.
What is Bluetooth?
What is 5060 and 5061?