I can assure you the Prince of Darkness has nothing to do with Cisco. No he
runs Microsoft!
Karl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Priscilla Oppenheimer"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:23 PM
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]
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> Priscilla Oppenheimer
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