[34658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: happy bday IGS-R
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Thu Feb 15 18:34:40 2001
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:30:53 -0800
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Brent Sweeny <sweeny@indiana.edu>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, hank@att.net.il, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010215175321.B16369@indiana.edu>; from sweeny@indiana.edu on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:53:21PM -0500
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:53:21PM -0500, Brent Sweeny wrote:
> I remember way back then, when we were evaluating whether to buy Proteon
> or Cisco, scanning the hosts table (which still listed all the routers
> in the internet then, along with what KIND they were) to see what Cisco's
> market penetration was. it was growing fast enough that we thought they
> might stay in business. ;) it's still a good idea for cisco to remember
> proteon (and what they did wrong), though virtually no one from cisco today
> has ever heard of proteon, too bad--the lessons are still relevant, perhaps
> more than ever.
Umm, when Cisco bought IBM's router division, didn't they take on the support
contracts for those routers?
The IBM 2210 had a lot of Proteon history...
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