[mr_toad]

Cisco made routers during a period when the internet boomed. They’d have had to have screwed up badly to not grown rapidly.

[foobiekr]

Cisco had a lot of competitors in its growth era. Of them only the tattered juniper (soon HPE) remains.

Arista is doing very well now but Cisco is long past that growth era.

[esafak]

And PaaS takes care of it now. What do I care what router AWS uses?

[anikom15]

So what happened to all their competitors?