True, not April 1, followup. If you look on the copyright/trademark page of the IOS 9.1 documentation, you will find "Trouter" among the trademarks. It was intended to be Cisco's trade name for a combined router/terminal server. Apparently, the name seemed fishy to many potential customers, and it didn't scale well.
There is, incidentally, a small form of trout called a cisco. Cisco and Synoptics discussed a merger before the Bay merger. Cisco was going to contribute Router information, while Synoptics had the hUB expertise. If you go to an early Cisco Internetworking Glossary, you will find the terms Rub and Rubsystem. Clearly, very Californian. When Cisco first came out with 2500 series routers with built-in hubs, they officially called them "hublets." The name never caught on. I did mention this in one of my CID courses, and a student observed that if one considered the British pronunciation, the combination of a hub and router could be a "hooter." Cisco political correctness could never handle this. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=40083&t=40083 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
