Good intent and somewhat competent

[Jeremiah Kristal]

On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Karl Denninger wrote:

> Vhen vendors drive BCPs and policies to protect the sale of their own
> product which won't live *WITHOUT* those documents, I Don't think this is
> off-topic in the least.
>
> There's no conspiracy here -- CISCO and the backbone engineers have AGREED
> IN THE PAST that the netwrok wouldn't have survived DUE TO THESE LIMITS
> if CIDR wasn't adopted.
>
> That CISCO then went on to produce TWO product lines which incorporated the
> same flaw in their design is a fact.

Karl,
Please explain to me how Cisco is to blame for no other routing vendor
being able to develop a product that can beat Cisco?  If there is some
magical router out there that can handle 10,000,000 route entries, why
haven't we heard about it?  I think there is a very strong financial
incentive to develop one, since I am sure that Cisco has sold well over
1000 7500 series routers in the past 2 years.  If someone where to develop
something that would beat it, and would sell for $100,000, that's
$100Million in sales just for NAP routers, and we haven't even considered
the huge corporate Intranet market.  There are 100s of firms in NYC that
use 7500 series routers internally to connect lans, and maybe one or two
remote offices.
Maybe Cisco isn't lying to us all, maybe aggregation is a good idea no
matter what hardware the backbones are using.

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