What’s with the cosmic rays?

  I was reading a Reddit thread bashing Cisco today.  It’s a few months old.  Some of the commentary is fair enough.  Some of it might be a bit unfair.  But I do think all vendor execs should spend time reading customer Reddit threads to understand how they’re perceived and what they can do better. […]

TAC Tales #17: Escalations

When you open a TAC case, how exactly does the customer support engineer (CSE) figure out how to solve the case?  After all, CSEs are not super-human.  Just like any engineer, in TAC you have a range of brilliant to not-so-brilliant, and everything in between.  Let me give an example:  I worked at HTTS, or […]