RE: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

[Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com>]

To be fair to Cisco and maybe I'm way off here. But it seems they do come out with a way to do things first which then 
become a standard that
they have to follow.

ISL/DOT1Q
HSRP/VRRP
etherchannel/LACP

Just some examples..... I'm not aware of too many other vendors that create their own protocol, in which they then 
become a standard?






> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:46:53 -0800
> From: sethm () rollernet us
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
>
> On 1/10/2011 14:32, Jeff Kell wrote:
> > On 1/10/2011 3:20 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
> > > HP probably was the most helpful vendor i've dealt with in relation to solving/providing inter vendor 
> > > interoperability solutions.   they have PDF booklets on many  things we would run into during work.  for example,  
> > > setting up STP between Cisco and HP gear,  ( 
> > > http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Manuals/ProCurve-and-Cisco-STP-Interoperability.pdf ).
> >
> > Well, technically, the HP reference tells you how to convert your Cisco
> > default PVST over to MST to match the HP preference.
> >
> > The handful of HP switches versus the stacks and stacks of production
> > Cisco requiring conversion to suit them was "intimidating" to say the
> > least :-)
>
>
> To be fair, one is Cisco proprietary while the other is IEEE 802.1Q.
>
> ~Seth