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No. The BFR was the development name for Tony Li's last Cisco project and morphed into the GSR. The processor card in at least early GSRs had a BFR sticker on them.

Pardon, but I need to set the record straight here... It was not by any stretch of the imagination 'my' project. There were dozens of folks that had far more involvement than I did. All I did was to help with getting things jump started.

Tony

Just to add a bit more, I believe Tony and Michael Laor were the main leaders in the GSR: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/innovators/optical/gsr/index.htm Whereas the BFR had a lot of Israeli work from Michael's group (as per an Israeli daily reports - and here is the English translation): http://www.ivc-online.com/ivcWeeklyItem.asp?articleID=1727 -Hank