Pursuant to a round of layoffs announced in August, Cisco is reorganizing, reportedly removing a layer of executives, mostly product managers who were each responsible for specific product families within the company’s switching and routing business.
The reorganization was originally reported by Business Insider and confirmed by the company.
BI reports Cisco will be taking engineering teams focused on individual products and creating two wider engineering groups, one dedicated to software, another to hardware.
A Cisco spokesperson confirmed that there is a reorganization. The company was drafting a statement with additional details at presstime.
The move signals the availability of some of Cisco’s top managers. Network World compiled a list of prominent executives who have left the company over the last two months, including data center/virtualization system engineering chief Dom Delfino, who left for VMware; cloud engineering exec Kyle Mestery, who was responsible for Cisco’s OpenStack strategy, who went to H-P; security product SVP Chris Young who became the head of Intel’s security product ops; and Jeff White, an exec holding positions in two large Cisco units, who now heads up sales at Extreme Networks.
