[123509] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CRS-3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arjan van der Oest)
Wed Mar 10 02:01:23 2010
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:58:47 +0100
From: "Arjan van der Oest" <arjan.van.der.oest@worldmax.nl>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>,
"NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Cisco did 100GE before, based upon the 802.3ba: =
http://www.10gea.org/100-ge-router-cisco-comcast.htm
The 'wow' factor in this is news might be that these new linecards are =
nonblocking and will eventually support the final standard without =
hardware changes.
Arjan
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patrick@ianai.net]
Sent: Tue 3/9/2010 11:02 PM
To: NANOG list
Subject: Re: CRS-3
=20
On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Jake Khuon wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:29 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>=20
>> The only "wow" here is "wow, why did cisco hype how far behind they
>> are?"
>=20
> 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.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
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