On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 21:01, Phil Bedard <[email protected]> wrote:

> From a Cisco perspective when we built the first 8000 (Silicon One) routers, 
> the original 8201/8202 had a separate Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) 
> the same as a server because we thought people would truly enjoy having that. 
>  In turns out no one used it and more were confused by it.  It added extra 
> cost and took up real estate that could be used for other things, so it 
> didn’t continue.

And I will apologise for all of us customers, we are wrong, you were
right with CMP, you were right with BMC. It is blind spot we have and
we need education.


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