>From Webster's
Main Entry: 1 pod
Pronunciation: 'pdd
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1573
1 : a bit socket in a brace
2 : a straight groove or channel in the barrel of an auger
Main Entry: 2 pod
Function: noun
Etymology: probably alteration of cod bag -- more at CODPIECE
Date: 1688
1 : a dry dehiscent pericarp or fruit that is composed of one or more
carpels; especially : LEGUME
2 a : an anatomical pouch b : a grasshopper egg case
3 : a tapered and roughly cylindrical body of ore or mineral
4 : a usually protective container or housing: as a : a streamlined
compartment (as for fuel) under the wings or fuselage of an aircraft b : a
compartment (as for personnel, a power unit, or an instrument) on a ship or
craft
Also, see "The 10 Most Popular Sites for 'Pod'" here:
http://webster.directhit.com/webster/search.php?qry=pod
Note that they don't have anything to do with networking. The first one is
for "payable on death." :-)
As far as Cisco is concerned, I only ever heard the word used in reference
to training labs. I don't think it was even Cisco that came up with it? I
think it was one of the training partners. It was a useful concept for
moving toward virtual labs where a single user could log into a pod.
As far as OSPF areas, I think Cisco makes a pod an area just to give the
student a chance to work with a multi-area network. It has nothing to do
with the real world.
It is interesting that your company uses the word for subnets, physical
subdivisions. Maybe other companies do too.
Priscilla
At 12:51 PM 6/27/01, Jack Nalbandian wrote:
>I know this might veer off topic:
>
>Maybe I am biased (and partly curious), mostly due to working at a company
>that actually did refer to its building sub-units as "pods," and
>subsequently its network subnets (with a scheme pretty much dictated by
>the company campus' physical subdivisions) as "pods," but does the Cisco
>HQ campus have multiple building "pods" as well? It is an actual term
>used in architecture. Has it perhaps slipped over into being part of
>Cisco's network terminology?
>
>Perhaps this preconception on my part had me thinking of the pods in the
>BSCN book in this manner. I did notice, perhaps I am wrong, but the
>individual "pods" in the Cisco book tend to have separate areas (in OSFP
>scenarios entirely separate physical entities connected via some WAN link.
Is this
>true in the classroom settings as well?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Priscilla Oppenheimer
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>Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:24 PM
>To: [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
> >
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> > Systems Network Manager
> > CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I
> > RWR Enterprises, Inc.
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