[163800] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Network Vendor suggestions/reviews, Arista Networks, Dell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List)
Tue Jun 18 20:32:09 2013
From: Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List <blake.mailinglist@pfankuch.me>
To: Phil Fagan <philfagan@gmail.com>, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List
<blake.mailinglist@pfankuch.me>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:31:44 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAPhg-wQvezzc1mOfinOmtwWMXRpz5KqDsQoAEJC9V3NEHqkNUA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "NANOG \(nanog@nanog.org\)" <nanog@nanog.org>
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