[193222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Dec 28 20:34:15 2016
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From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann@gmail.com>
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> An alternative multi-vendor approach is to use 1 vendor per stack layer,
> but alternate layer to layer. That is; Vendor A edge router, Vendor B
> firewall, Vendor A/C switches, Vendor D anti-SPAM software, etc. This
> doesn't address the bug impact issue as well as it alleviates the vendor
> "ownership" issue though...
i think this is where i say that i hope my competitors do this. it
is a recipe for a complex set of delicate dependencies and great fun
debugging.
randy
