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Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Varriale)
Thu Jan 13 10:01:47 2011
From: "Tony Varriale" <tvarriale@comcast.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:01:01 -0600
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Anderson" <cra@WPI.EDU>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
> 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.
Which new Cisco gear has ISL support that you are using?
And in case you haven't read any documentation or spoke to anyone over there
in the last 5 years, Cisco pushes dot1q and lacp extensively.
tv
