Hello: I would like to request for input on the startup/boot times experienced by service providers, from commercial network equipment, and the ranges desired. To narrow down the scope, the following is provided: -- the best possible times observed from equipments of a mix of vendors -- the equipments perform routing function at the POP of a service provider in the access domain. -- two cases (the high end and low end) can be assumed to have a feel for the port density and the network interface types. Regards, Srihari Varada