Tony,
Vadim, I thought that ANS was still using CNSSes and ENSSes, which I don't believe that Cisco built. Please let me know if I have misunderstood your statement here.
I believe that the relevant point here is that NSSes are not commercially available to the general public. They certainly seem to
True.
require care and feeding above and beyond the level that most ISPs seem interested in providing. How many Curtis' can we clone?
Actually, the NSSes do just fine with a minimum of care, particularly with respect to the amount of care and feeding we give to other gear. Part of this is sure to be due to application rather than quality of any particular equipment, of course. If I recall correctly, I think we typically do a couple NSS routing software builds per year and a couple base software builds per year as needed. As we see things change in the future, however, so do we. Steve