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Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?


From: Chuck Anderson <cra () WPI EDU>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:18:00 -0500

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:10:16PM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote:
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

Yes, and then they keep their proprietary implementation instead of 
phasing it out, and no one migrates to the standard one which leads to 
vendor lockin.


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