The editor should have caught it. I haven't seen the book, but if it really uses the word pod to mean a group of routers without any explanation that this is a special Cisco training use of the word, that's really bad. Editors waste a lot of time doing things like changing 10Mbps to 10Mbytes (seriously) instead of doing what they should be doing. ;-) Priscilla At 02:11 PM 6/27/01, Ole Drews Jensen wrote: >Thanks to you Priscilla, and all the many others who has replied to me. > >Sometimes I feel like Cisco (and all the others for that matter) comes up >with too many unnecessary new words, or new meanings for old words. > >Normally the three letter words with the unknown meaning the first time you >see it, is an abreaviation of three words, which makes this word different >from normal. > >With words as POTS for plain old telephone system, I would have thought of >POD as "pretty old device" or "power of duplex". > >Anyway, I am starting to get into a far out word game here, so I think I'll >stop before I end up in orbit. > >Thanks again, > >Ole > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ole Drews Jensen > Systems Network Manager > CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I > RWR Enterprises, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > http://www.OleDrews.com/CCNP >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > NEED A JOB ??? > http://www.oledrews.com/job >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Priscilla Oppenheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:13 PM >To: Ole Drews Jensen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: POD, what is that? [7:10128] > > >It's not a stupid question. I has me laughing, but not at you. > >Cisco uses the word "pod" as a group of routers and switches in a lab or >training class. In a training class, each group of students works on one >pod. > >But nobody else uses the word that way!? > >I just finished writing some information on pods in the protocol analysis >world. In that case, a pod is an extra little thingie (technical term) that >helps the analyzer get on the network. With full-duplex links, for example, >if you don't want to break the link and put in a shared hub for attaching >the analyzer, you can get a so-called pod that leaves the link at >full-duplex traffic and buffers traffic before sending it to the analyzer. >These pods are costly. > >Priscilla > >At 02:35 PM 6/27/01, Ole Drews Jensen wrote: > >This might seem like a stupid question, but sometimes having english as my > >2nd language, makes it more difficult for me to understand what the writer > >is trying to tell me. > > > >I am in the middle of my BSCN book, and are now seeing the word POD showing > >up several times. It tells me that each POD has a number of routers, and > >there are a certain amount of POD's. > > > >Reading the explanation at http://www.dictionary.com gave me NO answers to > >this one, and the closest thing I can guess my self to is that POD's are > >kind of departments or subnets, unless the Prince Of Darkness has been > >involved with Cisco networks lately :-) > > > >Thanks for any replies to this one. > > > >Ole > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Ole Drews Jensen > > Systems Network Manager > > CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I > > RWR Enterprises, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > http://www.OleDrews.com/CCNP > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > NEED A JOB ??? > > http://www.oledrews.com/job > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >________________________ > >Priscilla Oppenheimer >http://www.priscilla.com ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=10144&t=10144 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
