Cisco once created a 'Tiger Team' to attack a hated rival (CSCO, ANET)

On Wednesday, Cisco reported its seventh straight quarter of year-over-year shrinking revenues.
That came weeks after its rival Arista Networks posted another blow-out quarter, with revenues up 50% over the year-ago quarter, sending its stock to all-time highs.
This is exactly the nightmare scenario that Cisco's former CEO, John Chambers, feared years ago, back in 2011, according to the Wall Street Journal's Rachael King.
Arista was founded in 2004 by legendary Valley engineers An