[134957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Anderson)
Thu Jan 13 08:18:46 2011
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:18:00 -0500
From: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:10:16PM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote:
> To be fair to Cisco and maybe I'm way off here. But it seems they do
> come out with a way to do things first which then become a standard
> that they have to follow.
>
> ISL/DOT1Q
> HSRP/VRRP
> etherchannel/LACP
Yes, and then they keep their proprietary implementation instead of
phasing it out, and no one migrates to the standard one which leads to
vendor lockin.
