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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)
> I like cisco too, but I'd really prefer that Bay, 3Com, or Netstar > were on par w/ cisco and forced them to do things better. As it > is, they seem to stagnate from lack of competition... Yes. This is key. Give me something with a command line interface; as many options for controlling OSPF and BGP; completely interoperable OSPF and BGP w/ Ciscos, using the same algorithms for route selection; and I'll consider it and perhaps buy some. It's a catch-22, but few (esp. large) providers have the engineering time to set up a separate backbone and slow-migrate customers over to another backbone based on different routers/router technology (hi, Curtis). As a result, they stay locked in to Ciscos - with their admitted and perceived problems. > -alan Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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