The notion of disaggregation – separating the operating system and applications from the underlying hardware – has always been a conundrum for Cisco. In a nutshell, why would the company risk losing all of the millions of dollars in development and the key networking features tied up in current Cisco hardware and software packages?
But in the new world of all-things software in which Cisco plans to be king, the disaggregation strategy is gaining momentum.
This week the company took things a step further in announcing a variety of disaggregation steps enterprise and service provider customers could be interested in.
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