you hit the nail in the head. Companies like Cisco only thrive on acquisitions, there has not been a single decent product launched from within.
Ps. I swear this isn’t a Zoom ad. It’s like the cops - if I say it this has to be true?! That’s how this works, right?
I write software for IOS-XR, an in-house, service provider-oriented OS. More specifically, my team works on the ASR9K series of routers.