[176165] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: A case against vendor-locking optical modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naslund, Steve)
Mon Nov 17 15:01:02 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 19:59:49 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAHgd+38_7D_-57D9TMKQMjm1k12wJG4vh_=YwXzh3xbtybsJVw@mail.gmail.com>
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