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Re: Ascend GRF
From: "Sean M. Doran" <smd () clock org>
Date: 11 Nov 1997 08:54:00 -0500
Phil Howard <phil () charon milepost com> writes:
I'm still waiting for T1 cards so I can put it in real service.
Wow, Phil, you (and others) really like to make your vendors' lives miserable giving them really difficult to solve problems like stuffing slow interfaces into a box optimized for fast ones. That high-speed routers do not support slow interfaces is a design feature. I think, however, there is a market for "fake" BFRs (and GRFs, which are not BFRs) that are really hybrid fast/slow routers in disguise. Like a 12000 that you can put a DS3 or DS1 into, or an ersatz SSP. Router vendors take note: operators (even a really clueful one who knows who he is and is still sulking about DS3s not fitting into the 12000) will pay for the VW BUG engine and frame under a Rolls Royce body, just so long as the hood ornament looks good enough to fool their friends and it works under their real traffic load. --:) Sean.
Current thread:
- Ascend GRF Mark Tripod (Nov 06)
- Re: Ascend GRF Neil J. McRae (Nov 06)
- Re: Ascend GRF Joe Shaw (Nov 06)
- Re: Ascend GRF Neil J. McRae (Nov 06)
- Re: Ascend GRF Martin Hannigan (Nov 06)
- Re: Ascend GRF Neil J. McRae (Nov 06)
- Re: Ascend GRF Phil Howard (Nov 06)
- Re: Ascend GRF Sean M. Doran (Nov 11)