Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:10:16PM -0800, Scott Weeks 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

Yes, and then they keep their proprietary implementation instead of phasing it out, and no one migrates to the standard one which leads to vendor lockin.