[123475] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CRS-3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Express Web Systems)
Tue Mar 9 15:41:51 2010
From: "Express Web Systems" <mailinglists@expresswebsystems.com>
To: "'NANOG list'" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <E8FA2CBB-875C-4CDA-AD2E-D8A43B27B659@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:41:07 -0600
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> Wow what?
>
> Is there anything in the CRS-3 that competitors are not shipping _today_?
>
> If you look at some startups, they are doing 4-5 times as many Gbps per
slot,
> and pre-release equipment is in use in some networks already.
>
> The only "wow" here is "wow, why did cisco hype how far behind they are?"
>
It's called doing the "wall street dance". Their stock price jumped 3%
yesterday in anticipation of the "big" announcement. Hype is hype, and
people still remember the magic of the dotcom bubble. "ZOMG! They increased
the size of the tubez! BUY! BUY!"
[full disclosure: I own stock in Cisco]
Tom Walsh
Express Web Systems, Inc.
