[16644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Mirsky)
Thu May 7 23:02:58 1998
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 17:24:42 -0400
From: Gregory Mirsky <gmirsky@BayNetworks.COM>
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: Rob M VanHooren <rob@linkd.net>, nanog@merit.edu
> Rob M VanHooren writes:
> > Hi, just a quickie (respond via e-mail, I'll summarize to the list)...
> >
> > Need to build a core NSP backbone.
> >
> > Who's equipment do I want:
>
> Like this is a question?
>
> You don't want Bay and you certainly don't want 3Com. If your network
> is fairly slow (ethernets and T1s only) you can use PCs running a
> reasonable BSD and GateD. Otherwise, the only commercial choice is
> Cisco.
>
Perry, may I ask why you exclude Bay and 3Com? Any particular bad
experience
from the previous life?
And Rob, it you're building a backbone I'd add Ascend's GRF to the list.
--
Gregory Mirsky
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