After posting I wondered how far my liberal use of the word "core" would get me :) To
be honest, very few terms in any vernacular can stand up to the rigorous hair
splitting that debate inspires. Lexical precision just isn't an important concept to
the marketing folks in this business.
Fortunately, the debate will be settled in the traditional capitalist manner where
technical superiority rarely plays a dominant role. Were it not so, debates of this
nature would likely stagnate the markets to such a point as to render them moot.
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On 3/16/2001 at 7:05 PM Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>>With all this Juniper stuff flying around, I remind you all to
>>consider that core routing represents something like 16% of Cisco's
>>revenue stream and Juniper only make core routers.
>>
>>Pete
>
>
>Putting on my chef's hat, I have several tools that variously remove
>apple cores, leaving the rest intact, or also slice the remaining
>part. Does this mean that Victorinox, Sabatier, etc., are
>significant players in the core market?
>
>Those ...routers...that also slice the fruit into segments, clearly,
>are distributed edge processors in the same housing as the core
>router.
>
>As far as the charges and countercharges about the Lightreading
>tests, the Master of Networks asked the Novice,
>
> "Grasshopper, what is the difference between a seller of used cars
> and a networking marketdroid?"
>
> "I know not, sensei. Enlighten me."
>
> "The seller of used cars knows when he is lying."
>
>In a different current controversy, one wonders if new.net has any
>conception of the operational impact their product may have. See
>continuing flames on NANOG.
>
>It may be necessary to bring in a mediator to deal with the question
>of whether Cisco is faster than Juniper, or vice versa. Perhaps Bill
>Clinton can help explain the meaning of "is" in this context.
>
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