[123492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CRS-3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Mar 9 18:47:05 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:45:57 -0500
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On Mar 9, 2010, at 17:31, Jake Khuon <khuon@neebu.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:02 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Jake Khuon wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:29 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>>>
>>>> The only "wow" here is "wow, why did cisco hype how far behind they
>>>> are?"
>>>
>>> Because in some organisations, the only vendor that matters is
>> Cisco.
>>
>> Then why bother hyping at all?
>>
>> Anyone who needs even a significant fraction of 322 Tbps is not going
>> to ignore competitors.
>
> Come now. You know the answer to that. While technically true, by
> that
> logic, Cisco should never perform any press releases.
First, this wasn't a press release, this was an event they were hyping
for quite a while. Second, doing a press release is fine, but even
the most aggressive companies have a modicum of truth in their releases.
If they said "look at our cool new router", one could overlook obvious
marketing BS like comparing to the T640 instead of the T1600. But
claiming to "revolutionize" the Internet while being afraid to compare
yourself to your chief competitor's flagship product is just pathetic.
--
TTFN,
patrick
