Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

On 1/10/2011 14:54, Brandon Kim wrote:

To be fair to Cisco and maybe I'm way off here. But it seems they do come out with a way to do things first which then become a standard that they have to follow.

ISL/DOT1Q HSRP/VRRP etherchannel/LACP

Just some examples..... I'm not aware of too many other vendors that create their own protocol, in which they then become a standard?

All I found (quickly without trying too hard) is that the IEEE version is based on Cisco's MISTP rather than PVST. ~Seth