Heh, I installed quite a few of those Cisco router blades in Synoptics hubs! I also liked their SPARC network management modules, but I don't think that had anything to do with Cisco.
Fred Reimer - CCNA Eclipsys Corporation, 200 Ashford Center North, Atlanta, GA 30338 Phone: 404-847-5177 Cell: 770-490-3071 Pager: 888-260-2050 NOTICE; This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer. -----Original Message----- From: MADMAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Studying Switching [7:75030] Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > At 5:00 PM +0000 9/10/03, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: > >>Tim Champion wrote: >> >>> All the info relating to this book is good and I'm going to buy >>> on the back >>> of these reviews but....... what makes people write switching >>> related poems? >> >>Because if we don't laugh at ourselves then we have to cry! :-) You should >>have heard the explanations of a brouter back in the 80s. You think people >>are confused now, but they were even more confused back then! And now we >>have Layer 3 switches! >> >>Priscilla > > > Brouter was bad enough. Then, when Synoptics and Cisco were > contemplating a merger of Synoptics hubs and Cisco routers, the term > (see the little green Cisco glossary) was Rub and Rubsystem. Contemplating? I seem to recall a Cisco router blade that we tested in about 1990 that you plugged into a Snyoptics hub. > > Later, when Cisco came out with combined hubs and routers, the > official term was hublet. When I asked one of my classes if anyone > knew the new term, someone replied "houter?" (use American > pronunciation). I like the Queens English pronunciation better ;) Dave > **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: > http://shop.groupstudy.com > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > -- David Madland CCIE# 2016 Sr. Network Engineer Qwest Communications 612-664-3367 "Emotion should reflect reason not guide it" **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=75211&t=75030 -------------------------------------------------- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
