[70764] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco HFR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Tue May 25 13:19:38 2004
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:18:39 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric@fnordsystems.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> This box is the HFR which, according to the San Jose Mercury,
> is short for "Huge Fast Router". (Some reporter at the Merc
> probably still believes in the tooth fairy.)
Same as the BFR, I heard a different interpretation of the word in the
middle :-)
> As with many things, if you have to ask how much it costs
> before deciding to order it, you can't afford it.
You don't get it, me thinks. For lots of people here, networks are not a
toy funded by the taxpayer's money, they're a tool to make money and
popular wisdom that I have found being practiced here says that indeed
you _do_ ask how much it costs before you buy it. I don't buy a million
bucks peace of equipment because it looks cool and I just got funding. I
buy a million bucks piece of equipment because I want ROI on it, and if
the ROI is 500k over 5 years I actually don't buy it.
Michel.
