Exactly, but whose to say that Mier isn't just a consultancy that operates
under several names. The "independent testing lab" could be the parent
company that works the deals too.
Every vendor has tickling points though, if you are a video/voip shop, maybe
Cisco is a killer app for you. Maybe not. I know Juniper is going to have a
hard time staying in business on leaner router revenues.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert E. Seastrom [mailto:rs@seastrom.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 2:09 PM
To: deepak@ai.net
Cc: jakasemboeng; cpatriaw@yahoo.com; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] Cisco GSR 12416 vs Juniper M160
"Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net> writes:
> You can't argue the money was well spent though. Most people who read that
> report will think, "Yeah, I want video, and Yeah, I want voice, and Yeah!
I
> want QoS!".
Oh, absolutely! It was certainly in Cisco's best interests to pay for
these "tests". By sponsoring such a bakeoff before Juniper did, they
could easily make sure that the tests were engineered so as to not
tickle such inconveniences as gratutitous reboots and dCEF coherency
issues that we (the hapless ISPs and end-users) have learnt to accept
as our lot in life. I mean, you'll never see even a hint of the dCEF
bugs if you're cranking your traffic with source and destination that
are "connected", eh? :)
I have to admit, though, that this kind of tomfoolery will make me
suspicious of any test results that come out of Mier from now on. :(
---Rob
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