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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: telecomguy who wrote (39776)	9/6/2000 6:55:23 PM
From: Jay Couch	Respond to of 77400

CSCO will learn eventually that the methods that allowed them to dominate the BOX business by turning out thousands of Routers by the assembly line is not the same business as building, integrating, supporting a 99.99999% public grade networks. Ugh. Telecomguy, I don't mean to pick a fight with you, but I am SOOOOO sick of hearing the NT and LU investors touting that it is such a difficult task to build 99.9999% public grade networks. As long as you design to Bellcore specs, and build 1+1 redundancy or better into your systems, you will have reliability as good as any piece of equipment out there in any "public grade" networks. I should know, I design these things for a living. The only reason that CSCO boxes haven't been thought of as reliable in the past is that they didn't have redundancy, and hot swap-ability. This is something that they are remedying and is only an issue in older enterprise type equipment. If you take a real look at the optical products that they are offering for telecom type applications (i.e. the Cerent products), you will see that they are redundant, they have NEBS certification, and they are "carrier class" products. To say that Cisco can't manufacture products like this is ridiculous. Because they are doing it. JC