On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Bryant Valencia <bvlmv5@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anybody hired Cisco for their NOS (Network Optimization Services)? I would like to hear about your experience (good or bad). I'm particularly interested in their CNC box.
Either this is merely exquisite acronym collision, or someone from marketing was been slamming too much www.drinknos.com and reading about botnets on the FUNSEC list. As for the service, one of my old clients has been engaging Cisco for some years now for a variety of needs. The reports are, in their subjective use, basically positive. My opinion is simply that it's a formalization of stuff Cisco has been doing for years. That is, doing the good engineering and planning work that many organizations are not (for any number of reasons) doing themselves. When it comes to the sale of box A, B, and C, (where the value of the set is not obvious to, say, a rural co-op ILEC management team) a vendor providing 'staff embedded' engineering can easily be a determining factor in winning or losing. -Tk