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Re: Yankee Group declares core routing obsolete (was Re: Anybodyusing GBICs?)

  • From: E.B. Dreger
  • Date: Thu Oct 30 13:47:31 2003

RAS> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:08:01 -0500
RAS> From: Richard A Steenbergen


RAS> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&e=18&u=/nf/22581
RAS>
RAS> Plainly stated, routers no longer have a home in the core of the network.
RAS> "You might have found a router there five years ago, but most certainly
RAS> you have a switch today," said Yankee Group vice president Zeus Kerravala.
RAS>
RAS> Whew, good thing I checked, I almost went out and bought routers for my
RAS> network. :)

So STP is now the control plane protocol of choice? ;-)


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