wsimpson@greendragon.com (William Allen Simpson) writes:

Finally, a commercial vendor (NetStar) decided that they could build it. And Cisco got wind of the project. Cisco hates to be second to market, so they quickly came out with their own, beating NetStar by a few weeks.

Actually, at the time that Cisco started working on it, they had NO idea of the NetStar project. Instead, they were being beaten up by one particular customer's engineer. Tony