Re: Cisco HFR

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <40B408C8.8010000 () ai net>, Deepak Jain writes:
> Eric Kuhnke wrote:
> > Here it is, complete with OC-768 interface:
> >
> > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5763/index.html
>
> In the old days, every major provider would already be talking about how 
> they have ordered 200 of these for every major market for redundant 
> deployment -- and are just waiting on Cisco to deliver them the gear.

Personally, I'm at least as intrigued by the IOS replacement as by the 
high-speed hardware -- when will that percolate to the rest of the 
product line?  As with any major new software product, it will probably 
be less reliable at first, but -- given the design goals -- quite 
likely much more reliable in the not tremendously distant future.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb