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To: wopr1 who wrote (21453)3/26/2000 7:54:00 PM
From: kumar  Respond to of 54805
 
example of the Gorilla defending its router dominance through software?

IMHO, the dominance was attained due to IOS, not the router h/w. TDP+IOS may well be the next lock-in. altho' I must admit being a bit confused by "submitted to IETF". Once it gets approved there, theoretically, no vendor has a dominant/proprietary lock-in. eg : Cisco never submitted tcp/ip to IETF, but leveraged a standard protocol for its dominant position using IOS. ("proprietary but open/widely used" rings a familiar bell :-)

cheers, kumar



To: wopr1 who wrote (21453)3/26/2000 9:03:00 PM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 54805
 
CSCO
I would think that a good tag-edge router would enable the packets to be easily switched optically once inside the network. The complexity of the internal switch is greatly reduced and comes into the realm where it is further switched by a simple check of the one's and zeros and not by a decode of the information. Optical switches are not good at decoding, but can be made to gate by decisions made earlier by the tag-edge computer.
TP


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