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Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Thu Jan 13 14:40:18 2011

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:40:12 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Michael Ruiz <mruiz@lstfinancial.com> said:
> I like Cisco personally and they are cheaper than
> buying a Juniper.  For example a M-series is always going to cost some
> bucks after you factor the FPC and the PICS that need to be loaded.

We didn't find that to be the case, after you factor in all the Cisco
pieces that need to be loaded as well.  Both make modular routers, so I
don't see how saying that one requires modules is a valid argument.

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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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