[16706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Selina Priestley)
Fri May 8 21:39:22 1998
To: perry@piermont.com
cc: "John A. Tamplin" <jat@traveller.com>,
Arnaud Girsch <agirsch@OASysGroup.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Message from <perry@piermont.com> of Thu May 7,1998 21:30 EDT
<199805080130.VAA00914@jekyll.piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 13:28:45 -0400
From: Selina Priestley <selina@ans.net>
>
> In short, unless you have numbers to indicate otherwise, I can't say
> that PCs cost you much, in the short term or the long term.
>
> What Cisco's will buy you is better handling of T3s, SONET, etc., and
> the ability to handle much higher performance lines. They also have
> much better remote management facilities, in so far as the things have
> real serial consoles and such, which PCs don't.
>
> Perry
One PC remote management win is that you can actually have secure
encrypted access/authentication for remote management, rather than
relying passwords in the clear and tftp. This is lacking in all
router venders at this instant, far as I know.
Selina
