[5348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Wed Oct 16 03:19:49 1996
From: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
To: alan@mindvision.com
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 21:54:11 +0100 (BST)
Cc: tli@jnx.com, kwe@6sigmanets.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610160629.BAA12502@anka.mindvision.com> from "Alan Hannan" at Oct 16, 96 01:29:52 am
> > since as Dave
> > O'Leary has told me for a long time "Sooner or later everyone ends
> > up working for cisco" and he seems to be right.
>
> Or maybe, everyone stops at cisco sometime in their career.
>
> Although, I know lots of smart smart smart people who haven't.
> One of them is looking for a job, and he's not looking at cisco.
> (not me...)
And since we have *never* had a Cisco in our own network, as the
largest dialup IP provider in the UK if not Europe (as a single
company), we have gone from not seeing the need to not seeing the
point or buying and Cisco gear. It's like IBM was in the 60s/70s.
"No one ever got fired for buying Cisco." Sheesh.
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