Yes, I'm extremely suprised that this is their stance. I'm pressed to find a technical reason behind such a requirement. The 7000 is a Motorola 68XXX based system, and the 4500/4700 is a risc based system. There have been performance tests that have shown that the 45/47 boxes out perform the 7000 boxes. I'd be very interested in hearing Sprints' reasoning on this. Chris ---------- From: Neil J. McRae[SMTP:neil@EASYNET.NET] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 1996 11:11 AM To: Deepak Jain Cc: Steve Mansfield; Rob Liebschutz; hank@rem.com; jon@worf.netins.net; nanog@merit.edu; neil@EASYNET.NET Subject: Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:36:56 -0400 (EDT) Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com> alleged:
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I think he means Sprint told him they would not BGP4 peer with him if he didn't have a Cisco 7000 series router. Not that it wasn't possible. :)
You have to vote with your feet on this and take your money elsewhere. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. E A S Y N E T G R O U P P L C neil@EASYNET.NET NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A> BTnet support reply regarding 45 minutes of no service: "BGP FNF, BGP A OK, BT ISP A OK, MFI NO GO!!" -- Bill.Peters@bt.net
I'm extremely suprised that this is their stance. I'm pressed to find a technical reason behind such a requirement. The 7000 is a Motorola 68XXX based system, and the 4500/4700 is a risc based system. There have been performance tests that have shown that the 45/47 boxes out perform the 7000 boxes. I'd be very interested in hearing Sprints' reasoning on this.
And don't even THINK about using a 75xx! :-) ? On another subject, does anyone know of a source showing the hardware/software of choice at different NAPs? It would be interesting to see what percent is Cisco (>90%), Bay, *BSD, and etc.... -alan
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Chris A. Icide wrote:
I'm extremely suprised that this is their stance. I'm pressed to find a technical reason behind such a requirement. The 7000 is a Motorola 68XXX based system, and the 4500/4700 is a risc based system. There have been performance tests that have shown that the 45/47 boxes out perform the 7000 boxes. I'd be very interested in hearing Sprints' reasoning on this. You have to vote with your feet on this and take your money elsewhere.
Ok, here is what I understand, cisco correct me 25xx 68030 7xxx 68040 4700 150 RISC 7500 100 RISC 7200 150 RISC Christian
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