[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

They still enjoy name recognition from the era when they were pretty much the only player in high-performance enterprise-grade networking equipment. That era is long since over, but there are still a lot of networking people who came out of and are still coming out of Cisco's Netacad and aren't familiar with other vendor options.

[user5994461]

There is also a generation of networking people who went to the "cheap" DELL and HP equipment only to realize they didn't have all the advertised features.

Juniper and Force 10 were nice, if only they could be bought outside of the USA and by non English speakers.

That's what I recall from a decade ago. Can you name the options that were so great?