Here: https://youtu.be/LWO2ohVTXLA?t=1514. He talks about how Cisco loaned it's own money, and as many of the companies went bankrupt; our gear was sold on the open market. He started the discussion how an AI bubble could potentially play out.
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Our office had double doors. The story is true. Another funny story was the delivery of the CTS3000 telepresence server that was going to save the planet from climate change. Those pallets came in the door, and it was 3 pallets of CTS3000 stuff to save the Earth :)
would love to believe it, except that pretty much no front office door would be wide enough for a pallet. And more than likely, if the Lobby Ambassador saw someone delivering a pallet through the front door, Security would be called before it got in the building. So, yeah...calling BS on the story.
MacGruber inspired
https://www.knowledgecomputers.net/hardware/cisco/routers/catalyst-8540/
Another relic from the era
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Heard Peter also this weekend. He is spot on. I was at Cisco (SE) in 2000 when all the lease deals went south and they eliminated the entire NSP (small ISP) group. Funniest one for me was a 7500 BFR router I sold that never got installed. 6 months later the customer didn't know how to return it, so they left the pallet at the receptionist desk in the Cisco office. At least they tried, rather than put it on Ebay.