[70834] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco HFR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu May 27 12:33:37 2004
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:32:59 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> No. The BFR was the development name for Tony Li's last Cisco project
>> and morphed into the GSR. The processor card in at least early GSRs had
>> a BFR sticker on them.
>
> Pardon, but I need to set the record straight here... It was not by
> any stretch of the imagination 'my' project. There were dozens of folks
> that had far more involvement than I did. All I did was to help with
> getting things jump started.
>
> Tony
Just to add a bit more, I believe Tony and Michael Laor were the main
leaders in the GSR:
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/innovators/optical/gsr/index.htm
Whereas the BFR had a lot of Israeli work from Michael's group (as per an
Israeli daily reports - and here is the English translation):
http://www.ivc-online.com/ivcWeeklyItem.asp?articleID=1727
-Hank
