agnostic might be too strong a term to lavish upon a company that preaches
"open standards" 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) . .. .
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).
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.
(please note that it remains somewhat insipid . . . thanks)
Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com on 12/02/2000
04:45:39 PM
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Subject: Re: anyone has had any contacts with cisco R&D people?
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
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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