Did you send back the survey with appropriate comments filled out? Did you
attempt to contact someone about the support level you received? Have you
made any attempt at all to help Cisco solve the problem?
Yes, we are doing it every time. Note, we don't blame CISCO at all - I
undertsnd the big company can't keep direct contacts betwee high-skilled
technicians and the customers except some very important ones.
We have a goot feedback by the technical seminars and local support
people from the AMT Group (the better cisco reseller in the Russia), and
sometimes with the CISCO Russia people.
And then, there is different interests. If I understand the situation
right, CISCO is injecting a huge intellectial and financial capital into
the VoIP, ATM, WDM technology etc etc and is trying to get a goot rate
amongs the big international TELCO's. No doubt, the traditional issues
such as _IP CORE BACKBONE_, _DIALUP ACCESS_, etc etc are shifting to the
second level. No one can blame the vendor for this approach.
Through we had some success in technical contacts last months, but I
recommend everybody don't hope to the technical support. It he
(everybody) is not 100,000 employee telco.
On the other hand, just CCO web service fill in this gup between _low
skilled_ human support and _high skilled technicians_. I think it should
be better if CISCO support some kind of WWW conferences, some kind of
excanging _know_how_ between their customers, but I undersnand it's not
so easy to develop such support. If we make some complains here, or if I
(sometimes) refer to the CISCO as an example when something work wrong,
it don't mean we are dissatisfyed - in comparation with the others CISCO
have an excellent support.
Through I think we are talking about one vendor too much here, and get
quiet.
Alex.
Cisco is very concerned about the level of support our customers get; any
duly reported problems are looked into and we attempt to resolve everything
we can.
However, calling people clowns and sissies on a public mailing list is
unlikely to solve your problem, regardless of what company your problem is
with. Grow up.
And FYI, Cisco has over 7 million web pages internally just for Cisco
employees; just because your engineer may not be personally acquainted with
your exact question (I dare you to find *any* human who can be up on every
single detail of our products) doesn't mean he's wandering around on CCO.
Stephen
> > Stephen Sprunk, K5SSS, CCIE #3723
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From: TOO MUCH
To: nanog@merit.edu
Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 11:43
Subject: Cisco TAC KRAP !!
Over the last year it seems that the quality of service I have received from
TAC has diminished. At one time I found myself speaking to a knowledgeable
engineer. Who knew the product and protocols involved and they were willing
to share information.
The norm these days is to get an engineer who knows less then I do. I'm call
requesting technical information pertaining to their products, What I get is
some clown telling me to hold on while he surfs the internal web page
looking for the answer. I can scan CCO myself!!
Is it just me ?
Phantom hates Cisco or should I say Sissy-Co TAC!!
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