Good god I can not stress enough how everything Cisco makes is just dog shit in terms of physical standards. A TV screen where the power cord plugs in to the bottom and there’s no route for the cable to go back up to where your electrical outlet is behind the TV, also using a power cable that sticks out of the wall farther than Cisco mount holds the display off the wall, so it’s crushed forever and always.
Oh a meeting room control? Let’s make it 1 1/2 rack units tall, so it leaves a massive gap into the rack from the front.
Touch panel inputs that you have to break the stand off to get to.
It confuses me how a company can basically invent an entire category of hardware, then proceed to do absolutely everything as terribly as possible after that.
New Cisco firewalls? Fucking suck.
Cisco switches? Good hardware, but they haven’t evolved configuration wise since like the mid 2000s, and licensing costs as much as the switch, for foreign based support that doesn’t even understand the question.
The ENTIRE FTD platform is an absolute insult to engineering and should single handedly be responsible for bankrupting Cisco, imo.
This probably does not apply to the Cisco rack hardware you mentioned, but odd rack units does serve a purpose: I was part of a group designing some proprietary hardware for our company, and I suggested 1.5U height on puprose: That way whoever installed it would be forced to leave a gap over it, because that’s where the air intakes for the fans were.
Sure, but you had the extra 0.5U that you’d left as a gap. Run the airflow through that, but don’t make it just a gap or you end up with hot air flowing back to the cold side.
I’m not trying to reengineer your product, Ive just had enough frustrations with rack mount hardware to make me cranky if it isn’t just the way I want it!
Good god I can not stress enough how everything Cisco makes is just dog shit in terms of physical standards. A TV screen where the power cord plugs in to the bottom and there’s no route for the cable to go back up to where your electrical outlet is behind the TV, also using a power cable that sticks out of the wall farther than Cisco mount holds the display off the wall, so it’s crushed forever and always.
Oh a meeting room control? Let’s make it 1 1/2 rack units tall, so it leaves a massive gap into the rack from the front.
Touch panel inputs that you have to break the stand off to get to.
Cisco is just a fucking nightmare.
It confuses me how a company can basically invent an entire category of hardware, then proceed to do absolutely everything as terribly as possible after that.
New Cisco firewalls? Fucking suck.
Cisco switches? Good hardware, but they haven’t evolved configuration wise since like the mid 2000s, and licensing costs as much as the switch, for foreign based support that doesn’t even understand the question.
The ENTIRE FTD platform is an absolute insult to engineering and should single handedly be responsible for bankrupting Cisco, imo.
Cisco make TVs?
Barely. It’s more like a giant ipad
This probably does not apply to the Cisco rack hardware you mentioned, but odd rack units does serve a purpose: I was part of a group designing some proprietary hardware for our company, and I suggested 1.5U height on puprose: That way whoever installed it would be forced to leave a gap over it, because that’s where the air intakes for the fans were.
If you’re doing that, just make it 2U and direct the inlet from the front so that we can have proper hot and cold aisles!
Front and back was occupied by other hardware. The innards came with some design constraints.
Sure, but you had the extra 0.5U that you’d left as a gap. Run the airflow through that, but don’t make it just a gap or you end up with hot air flowing back to the cold side.
I’m not trying to reengineer your product, Ive just had enough frustrations with rack mount hardware to make me cranky if it isn’t just the way I want it!