[5353] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Wed Oct 16 08:59:18 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: alan@mindvision.com
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 08:33:50 -0400 (EDT)
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
> I like cisco too, but I'd really prefer that Bay, 3Com, or Netstar
> were on par w/ cisco and forced them to do things better. As it
> is, they seem to stagnate from lack of competition...
Yes. This is key.
Give me something with a command line interface; as many options for
controlling OSPF and BGP; completely interoperable OSPF and BGP w/
Ciscos, using the same algorithms for route selection; and I'll consider
it and perhaps buy some.
It's a catch-22, but few (esp. large) providers have the engineering time
to set up a separate backbone and slow-migrate customers over to another
backbone based on different routers/router technology (hi, Curtis). As
a result, they stay locked in to Ciscos - with their admitted and perceived
problems.
> -alan
Avi
