[86473] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Nov 7 10:43:27 2005
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:42:52 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 06:43:35AM -0500, J. Oquendo wrote:
> > the center of the information security vortex. Because IOS=20
> controls the
> > routers that underpin most business networks as well as the=20
> Internet,
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> I think in general this is an argument against=20
> converged networks,
> the added complexity and outages may not be worth the gains..
Convergence isn't going away because Networld Week thinks routers
are insecure (no, really?).
It's an argument for vendor diversity.
-M<