Re: Cisco HFR

In message <40B408C8.8010000@ai.net>, Deepak Jain writes:

Eric Kuhnke wrote:

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Here it is, complete with OC-768 interface:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5763/index.html

In the old days, every major provider would already be talking about how they have ordered 200 of these for every major market for redundant deployment -- and are just waiting on Cisco to deliver them the gear.

Personally, I'm at least as intrigued by the IOS replacement as by the high-speed hardware -- when will that percolate to the rest of the product line? As with any major new software product, it will probably be less reliable at first, but -- given the design goals -- quite likely much more reliable in the not tremendously distant future. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb