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Re: Core router bakeoff?
From: Selina Priestley <selina () ans net>
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 13:28:45 -0400
In short, unless you have numbers to indicate otherwise, I can't say that PCs cost you much, in the short term or the long term. What Cisco's will buy you is better handling of T3s, SONET, etc., and the ability to handle much higher performance lines. They also have much better remote management facilities, in so far as the things have real serial consoles and such, which PCs don't. Perry
One PC remote management win is that you can actually have secure encrypted access/authentication for remote management, rather than relying passwords in the clear and tftp. This is lacking in all router venders at this instant, far as I know. Selina
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- Re: Core router bakeoff?, (continued)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Randy Bush (May 07)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Arnaud Girsch (May 07)
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- Re: Core router bakeoff? Perry E. Metzger (May 07)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? John A. Tamplin (May 07)
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- Re: Core router bakeoff? Jay R. Ashworth (May 07)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Perry E. Metzger (May 07)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Karl Denninger (May 07)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Perry E. Metzger (May 07)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Karl Denninger (May 08)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Perry E. Metzger (May 07)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Selina Priestley (May 08)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Kevin Steves (May 09)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Andrew Bangs (May 09)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Michael Shields (May 09)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? John R. Levine (May 08)
- Re: Core router bakeoff? Eric Germann (May 07)
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