It's sad. As a big Cisco fan (and stockholder), I hope Cisco fires the
marketing jerk that made them look so foolish. There was no need to
misrepresent the results.
Priscilla
At 02:14 PM 3/16/01, Ian Gomeche wrote:
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/17635.html
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>Cisco misrepresents test results
>By: John Leyden
>Posted: 15/03/2001 at 19:17 GMT
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>A publishing firm has slammed Cisco for misrepresenting the results of its
>tests on high-end optical networking kit.
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>Cisco claimed in a press release issued Tuesday evening that it, rather than
>Juniper Networks came out on top in publisher Light Reading's tests of
>Internet core routers.
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>After Light Reading issued a press release complaining about what Cisco had
>done, the networking giant revised partially revised its statement but the
>affair has angered those involved in the testing, which took six months to
>put together.
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>Peter Heywood, founding editor of Light Reading, told The Register: "Cisco
>has taken out factual inaccuracies in the original press release but we
>still feel what it did originally was underhand."
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>Light Reading commissioned tests which were carried out by benchmarking
>design consultancy Network Test using Spirent Communications performance
>analysis systems.
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>The tests looked at Cisco's flagship 12416 router, the M160 from Juniper and
>kit from Foundry Networks and Charlotte's Networks, and found that Cisco and
>Juniper were far superior to the competition.
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>However being rated a close second wasn't good enough for Cisco, which has
>60 per cent of the high-end routing market to Juniper's 30 per cent, and it
>decided to spin the results in its favour.
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>"I'm very disappointed in this misrepresentation," said David Newman,
>president of Network Test. "Cisco's 12416 put up some very, very good
>numbers in this test, so the company had no need to spin it the way they
>did."
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>Among the points on which Light Reading believes Cisco's spin went into
>overdrive are claims that it did better overall when it won four of 16
>tests, compared to the 12 won by Juniper.
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>Cisco's original release claimed it had won nine tests and also boasted that
>it was the only kit to demonstrate Line Rate IP and MPLS (Multi Protocol
>Label Switching) performance with 2.5Gbps and 10Gbps throughput. According
>to Light Reading throughput on one of these tests was just 52 percent.
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>High end optical routers will sit at the core of service provider networks
>and present a huge marketing opportunity for vendors selling next generation
>networking technology to telcos. Success in selling such kit will be
>fundamental to the fortunes of firms like Cisco and Juniper, so it's not
>entirely surprising that the results of one of the first tests on suck kit
>has been so bitterly contested. .
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>External links:
>Network Test's results
>Cisco's spin
>...and the rebuttal
>Light Reading
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>Related stories:
>Cisco pushes optical router
>Cisco ships 10Gbps router
>Juniper gets edgy with latest boxes
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