[c-nsp] Cisco 6500 mounting with cables

[Eugeniu Patrascu]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:34:40PM -0700, quinn snyder wrote:
> > i think you'll being to see futher enhancements to the platforms
> > (c6k, nexus) that will start to draw clear lines between the
> > positioning or 'general use case'. catalyst will continue to be
> > the campus platform, while nexus will be for the d/c.
>
> And *that* very much shows how much lack of understanding there is in
> product development.  There is not so much difference between "campus",
> "d/c" and "service provider" anymore - and the arbitrary product
> differenciation ("no, you can't have *that* feature which would make
> perfect sense to you, because that's only available on the other boxes
> [which, incidentially, lack 5 features that you need]") is really
> alienating customers.
>
> Join forces, build a sane product with a sane OS (which is not "classic
> monolithic IOS" and not "classic monolithic IOS on top of linux" either),
> and use all the development resources for that, instead of splitting
> sparse resources on building 3-5 competing platforms, each of them lacking
> something important the others already have.
>

That's a big no-no, as you won't have to buy other boxes that perform the
missing features on your one box.
It's bad for business :))