[4724] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris A. Icide)
Thu Sep 26 14:30:36 1996
From: "Chris A. Icide" <chris@nap.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>, "'Neil J. McRae'" <neil@EASYNET.NET>
Cc: "hank@rem.com" <hank@rem.com>,
"jon@worf.netins.net"
<jon@worf.netins.net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>, Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com>,
Steve Mansfield <smm@uu.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:25:05 -0500
Yes,
I'm extremely suprised that this is their stance. I'm pressed to find a
technical reason behind such a requirement. The 7000 is a Motorola 68XXX
based system, and the 4500/4700 is a risc based system. There have been
performance tests that have shown that the 45/47 boxes out perform the
7000 boxes. I'd be very interested in hearing Sprints' reasoning on this.
Chris
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From: Neil J. McRae[SMTP:neil@EASYNET.NET]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 1996 11:11 AM
To: Deepak Jain
Cc: Steve Mansfield; Rob Liebschutz; hank@rem.com; jon@worf.netins.net; nanog@merit.edu; neil@EASYNET.NET
Subject: Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:36:56 -0400 (EDT)
Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com> alleged:
>
> Steve -
>
> I think he means Sprint told him they would not BGP4 peer with
> him if he didn't have a Cisco 7000 series router. Not that it wasn't
> possible. :)
>
You have to vote with your feet on this and take your money elsewhere.
Regards,
Neil.
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