Cisco TrustSec requires an upgrade to your network gear - No Surprise!

No surprise there. Has Cisco ever come out with a security product that when you peeled back the onion required you to buy newer Cisco networking gear? Here is a quote from an article I was reading in NewsFactor.com, "It can work with Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches equipped with the Supervisor Engine 32 Programmable Intelligent Services Accelerator (PISA) as an overlay .." The article then continues: "TrustSec, however, requires additional hardware and software upgrades to Cisco switches, as well as to a Cisco authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) policy server to support the TrustSec switch policy engine for storing and enforcing rolebased access policies."

I don't know about you, but whenever I read about Cisco's security plans, I always see conspiracy theories.  I am not talking about who shot Kennedy conspiracies, but is the whole thing cooked up as a way for Cisco to force customers to upgrade to new switches, routers, etc.  At the end of the day, that is what gets those Cisco reps juices flowing. Can't we just bolt something on to the millions of dollars you have already spent on Cisco gear?