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Re: Core router bakeoff?

  • From: Arnaud Girsch
  • Date: Thu May 07 22:44:39 1998

> > They just released some announcement that major companies and campuses are
> > using their equipment for new backbones.
> 
> That sounds like salesspeak. I've used lots of cabletron hubs and such 
> over the years, but they never seemed to have real routers.

They just released in Las Vegas their new line of "SmartSwitch Routers" ...
I recently read an independant comparison, and they were "faster" than Cisco.

I don't know about reliability, functionalities, etc ... I haven't had much
experience with these.

Arnaud.

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