Comment by hnlmorg

I’ve used Cisco for decades too. And the competition caught up with Cisco a long time ago. These days Cisco is trading on their brand (and even there, it’s often not enough).

The last large scale networking project I did was more than 10 years ago and we went with HP.

Personally I don’t want direct console access. I want a modern DevOps pipeline with version controlled config. I’ve got too many battle scares from accidental typos in IOS. I have no intention or reliving that error prone way of network management again.