Cisco Router Naming Convention || Why "Cisco" word is ammended?

[pkauzi]

Hello Community, 

I was going through this URL: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/7301-router/product_data_sheet09186a008014611a.html
I realised, Cisco is adding/ammending the word "Cisco" next to the Model Name "7301".
I want to understand: 

1. Why is such naming convention being done, why add the word "Cisco" next to Model Name ? 

2. Is this specific to this router only or in general Cisco does for all Routers or other devices also ? 

3. Why dont we see the same with Switches ? 

[Flavio Miranda]

@pkauzi 

Dont follow you here. Cisco has always used this name convention. The document you share is from 2008.

 And they do the same for switch

"Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Data Sheet"

[pkauzi]

@Flavio Miranda thank you for your response, let me explain you better, So i see that Cisco is amending the word "Cisco" next to the Model/part numbers, for example: in the below screenshot: 

And when i check other router the word "Cisco" is not there, for example: 

Then again i find the word "Cisco" in the following: 

So i want to understand why the Word "Cisco" is being added now and then randomly ? or it there a reason the naming convention is changing here ? 

[pkauzi]

@Flavio Miranda thank you for your response, let me explain you better, So i see that Cisco is amending the word "Cisco" next to the Model/part numbers, for example: in the below screenshot: 

And when i check other router the word "Cisco" is not there, for example: 

Then again i find the word "Cisco" in the following: 

So i want to understand why the Word "Cisco" is being added now and then randomly ? or it there a reason the naming convention is changing here ? 

[pkauzi]

@Flavio Miranda the example you have mentioned, i did check it and for this series of switches, the word "Cisco" is not mentioned: 

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9500-series-switches/nb-06-cat9500-ser-data-sheet-cte-en.html. (Under Ordering Information section)

So hence my curiosity raised a flag that why does cisco keep adding the word "Cisco" in the Model/Part numbers and that too there is no consistency. I wanted to know if there is any purpose behind such cases ? 

[Leo Laohoo]

Different business units (BU) and they generally make their own rule.

[pkauzi]

Thank you for your response @Leo Laohoo So then by what i understand is there is No Naming convention with the word "Cisco" here. The company might add or remove the word next to the Model/Part number as required irrespective of the device being part of Router/Switch or Firewall ? 

[Leo Laohoo]

Basically, yes.  

A good example are the model numbers of the wireless access points.  Until the introduction of the 9k series access points, the APs never had the prefix "Catalyst" attached to them.  Common sense dictates that the most premium model can be identified with the model number but the 9136 is the premium model and the 9166 is the next tier down. 

Another example is the 9400/9400X & 9600/9600X.  Using the same chassis, Cisco calls the 9400 the 9400X because the former has a Sup1 card.  The latter, 9400X, is the same chassis but with a newer Sup2 card.  If I follow this line of thinking, what is Cisco going to name the chassis with a Sup3, 9400XX?  

Naming nomenclature is a wild-wild-west.  Every BU writes their own rules.

Consistency is key.  

[pkauzi]

Thank you @Leo Laohoo for the info. 

So, now we know that the Cisco BU whoever are creating the name, they dont have a dedicated purpose to name the Models in such a way. I initially though to decipher something based on the Model which are quite old vs the new ones, But seems that is not the correct lines one should be doing any analysis or drawing conclusions. So i can conclude that the Naming nomenclature is not "consistent". But at the end of the day, irrespective of the word being "Cisco" or "catalyst" or "nexus" etc, what is the correct Model/part Number we should take when considering a Product? Should we just take out the words and take the rest of the Number string for Model/Part number or we should also consider the words like Cisco, etc in the Model/Part Number ?