[176157] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: A case against vendor-locking optical modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naslund, Steve)
Mon Nov 17 13:20:17 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:20:09 +0000
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