hi I'm Eric Knorr editor-in-chief of IDG Enterprise and with me today is Chuck
Robbins CEO cisco freshman announcement that you described as the biggest
announcement in your tenure at the at cisco the past two years and also you
said it was going to redefine networking for the next 30 years what are the
implications for the people that read our publications which were you know
people who are in charge of networking for the enterprise and provision and
maintain those networks what are the implications for them first of all
thanks for having me and if you step back and you look at what we announced
today it truly is a new era of networking and we rusher in waves of
innovation with what we announced today and giving our customers this ability to
build an intuitive network that starts with intent and the programmability so
rewriting the operating system with an API structure so that you can program it
giving our customers then analytics and insights coming out of the network that
only the network can say there's so much data there right and giving them that
context to help them be more effective and then obviously driving this new wave
of security that we talked about today is just incredibly important and all of
that over time this new network will continue to adapt and continue to learn
creating an intuitive environment for our customers now today you also
announced the introduction of the catalyst 9000 series so how much of this
new capability will I get with existing hardware versus the new 9000 it's a
great question so we announced the intent portion so the automation the DNA
center that we announced today has backwards compatibility so the
automation capability is backwards compatible to a broader set of our
portfolio based on you know running the appropriate operating system so we did
give customers backwards compatibility to make sure that they can derive the
value from that there are some capabilities that are only available
because of the high speed custom silicon that we actually have in the catalyst
9000 so the end cryptid traffic analytics which was a
revolutionary announcement today around our ability to identify malware inside
encrypted traffic without decrypting the traffic that is only available on the
new platform because of the speed and the performance that you have to have to
do wire speed analytics without degrading so it's a bit of both and but
we think that it gives our customers the appropriate level of investment
protection but also with the ability to move to some really unique innovation as
well ok and and how would you say this announcement dovetails this may be kind
of a complicated question with your application centric infrastructure
announcement of two years ago that was sort of the last big infrastructure do
you see this as an extension of this or you know how does a layout as in your
long term plan well if you if you think about HCI what it did has allowed you to
deploy policy in the data center right this brings automation and policy to the
enterprise network the campus network the white area and over time we will
bring those two together so that our enterprise customers can actually have
the ability to employ policy from the data center through the campus through
their security architecture all the way to the branch and so it's very
complementary not today you also talked about you know moving more toward
subscriptions and this is something that the cisco has been talking about a while
what's the difference today how is that changing for your customer well what we
announced if you think about what we announced today it really is helping our
customers with a multi-year journey to this new architecture and it really
helps them get to a place where they remove the complexity drive tremendous
scale solve the security problem so what we have done is really created some
advanced capabilities that are unique and new that we are offering to our
customers over the lifetime of the product and we're allowing them to
actually pay for it over the lifetime and what you're going to see from us is
this continued ability because of the the new architecture that we built we
can actually continue to offer new services and new capabilities on top of
this platform for our customers in the future so it creates
greater long-term value for them and it also creates a subscription model for us
which obviously our investors like from a predictability perspective great well
check I'd like thank you so much for talking with us today and Eric thank you
thanks for having me