[5352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Green)
Wed Oct 16 08:55:27 1996
To: alex@relcom.eu.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:01:56 +0400."
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 07:46:59 -0500
From: Jon Green <jon@worf.netins.net>
On Wed, 16 Oct 96 16:01:56 +0400, alex@relcom.eu.net writes:
>
>> As for competition, keep an eye on Bay. They are putting some serious
>> effort into Internet development. The hardware is already there, and has
>> been there for a long time. The software is getting there very quickly,
>> especially with companies like mine and ANS working with them. I have
>> a feeling Cisco will always be in the lead, but they may not have such
>> a comfortable lead for much longer. Which is a Good Thing, since
>> competition fuels development.
>>
>> -Jon
>And what do you think about Ascend's effort to get big piece of this
>market via their new back-bone router?
I took a look at the Ascend GRF (which stands for "Goes Real Fast"). I
was impressed with the performance of it, but not with the size. It's
too small. With only 4 slots, it can have 8 HSSI ports, 8 ATM OC-3
ports, or 4 OC-12 ports. I don't think that's large enough for most of
the big providers. It also has no V.35 ports, which are important for
some of us that are doing a mixture of high-speed links and slower T1.
The number of packets this thing can push through it is impressive, though.
-Jon
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