[119448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Juniper M120 Alternatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Nov 19 09:21:56 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:19:25 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Phil Pierotti <phil.pierotti@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5574b2240911181308y762e702btc43dec7367fa4ad1@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Phil Pierotti wrote:
> That's excellent news - any word on when Cisco will be back-porting these
> truly useful features from XR to that platform which so many of us are still
> running on (ie "traditional IOS")?
>
The general feeling is that XR won't be ported to a lot of existing
hardware, and traditional IOS is just royally screwed (see 12.3T EOL'd
and 12.4 bloated and full of bugs, and everything older missing critical
PE functionality for unnumbered vlans).
Jack (disliking all vendors when it comes to the edge right now)
