Or you may be thinking of the mergers, etc..., with Cabletron, Riverstone, and Yago and then all that into Lucent. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Wallace Keith [mailto:kwallace@pcconnection.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:27 PM To: Jay R. Ashworth; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: OT but funny: shades of gallery.colofinder.net Cabletron != baynetworks, that was Wellfleet and Synoptics that merged to become Bay, that became Nortel..... I've been around too long. -Keith -----Original Message----- From: Jay R. Ashworth [mailto:jra@baylink.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:19 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: OT but funny: shades of gallery.colofinder.net On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:12:39PM -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
After the first and second InterOps our cable plant for networks that lasted a week were considerably better organized. The short duration isn't that compelling for ... pasta panic.
I got to go to one Interop; way back in Atlanta when Cabletron and whomever else turned into Bay Networks were still separate companies. It seemed pretty clean to me; which one was that? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin)