Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

["Tony Varriale" <tvarriale () comcast net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Anderson" <cra () WPI EDU>
To: <nanog () nanog org>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?


> 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.

Which new Cisco gear has ISL support that you are using?

And in case you haven't read any documentation or spoke to anyone over there 
in the last 5 years, Cisco pushes dot1q and lacp extensively.

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