[16633] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnaud Girsch)
Thu May 7 22:52:05 1998
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 15:30:14 -0700
From: agirsch@OASysGroup.com (Arnaud Girsch)
To: agirsch@OASysGroup.com, perry@piermont.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> > They just released some announcement that major companies and campuses are
> > using their equipment for new backbones.
>
> That sounds like salesspeak. I've used lots of cabletron hubs and such
> over the years, but they never seemed to have real routers.
They just released in Las Vegas their new line of "SmartSwitch Routers" ...
I recently read an independant comparison, and they were "faster" than Cisco.
I don't know about reliability, functionalities, etc ... I haven't had much
experience with these.
Arnaud.
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