23 Dec
2025
23 Dec
'25
7:04 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 21:01, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com> 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. -- ++ytti