At 11:43 PM 12/2/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>agnostic might be too strong a term to lavish upon a company that preaches
>"open standards"
It's Cisco's word, not mine. They've been using it for years, including the
years that I worked there and today. It means they support open standards
and have no religion regarding one technology being better than an other.
IGRP isn't open, but it's an exception.
Priscilla
>at prospective customers (such as isl, pim, cgmp, igrp,
>eigrp,their layer 2 hdlc & the rest-meaning, anything they developed in
>isolation and imposed, or are waiting to impose, upon the rest of the
>ip-vulnerable community). while i'm quite certain that they will attempt to
>assimilate any commercially non-trivial communication standard into their
>operating systems, i'm concerned that it's not a legitimate question to ask
>about a single direction they might stumble along for both the backbone and
>the lan, since they will obviously follow the divergent trends in each
>market, no matter the implications for their current technological
>investments (btw: there exists a non-zero chance that the technologies in
>both spaces will converge. in that unlikely event, i'm more than certain
>that cisco won't hesitate in cannibalizing one division to capitalize on
>the other) . .. .
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>anyway, if you're truly concerned about anticipating their future, please
>understand that it has less to do with their current product set as we all
>understand it and far more to do with how they anticipate they might
>eviscerate their competitors and conquer markets that they have yet to
>redefine. my assumption all along was that they were not willing to play
>the nortel game of consolidating their wan and lan technologies (as alluded
>to in the previous paragraph) but they might yet prove to be the microsloth
>of the data communications space (nota bene: they've already made
>considerable progress in this venture).
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>a not-completely-insipid rule of thumb might be to assume that cisco is
>actively plotting to invade any data-communications technology space that
>either has market share or a company hawking its wares at a suffciently
>alluring stock price.
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>(please note that it remains somewhat insipid . . . thanks)
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>Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com on 12/02/2000
>04:45:39 PM
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>Please respond to Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>To: "cslx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>cc: (bcc: Kevin Cullimore)
>Subject: Re: anyone has had any contacts with cisco R&D people?
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>Cisco is agnostic with regards to technology and protocols. Cisco attempts
>to implement almost all viable protocols. That's their philosophy. So
>you'll see them implement solutions for customers who want ATM and
>solutions for customers who want SONET in the backbone.
>
>With that said, if your question is about ATM on a campus network, we heard
>recently that they are removing LAN Emulation (LANE) from the CCIE test, so
>that may say something about their direction, or I could be reading too
>much into that decision.
>
>Priscilla
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>At 07:24 AM 12/2/00, cslx wrote:
> >anyone has had any contacts with cisco R&D people?
> >I want to know which field cisco want focus on in the next decade.
> >IP over ATM switch at the backbone
> >or IP over sonet at the backbone
> >that means for the man or campus network, which one is cisco's prefer
>choice
> >or has the priority?
> >any1 can foresee the furture of ATM in china, and will it be replaced by
> >using total ip switching over backbone sonet transwmission?
> >I am seriously asking this question.
> >
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