[c-nsp] Leaked Video or Not (Linux and Cisco for internal Sales folks)

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 07:20:55AM -0700, Tails Pipes wrote:
> Thats the problem they are engaging with. Nearly everyone is doing better,
> faster, easier, more reliable networking that Cisco. Most often, at a
> cheaper price too. 

Not exactly sure what you're talking about.  Cisco builds many products,
some of them are indeed not very reliable, and others are definitely
more expensive :-) - but to claim "nearly everyone is doing better, faster,
more reliable" is so totally off-base that you really need to do some
solid reading before going on with that rant.

The "networking space" is very vast - from boxes that have a few times
100 Mbit and full software routing to boxes that use broadcom chips
for "fast and cheap" 40x 10Gbit ports but limited feature sets (<- this
is dictated by the hardware, the OS used on top can not change it),
to "flexible, fast, and insanely expensive" boxes with many times 100Gbit/s
support for >2 Million routing table entries, etc.

Depending on your needs, an APU2 with Linux might be the right answer,
or a Cisco ASR9900 or Juniper MX2020, filling a whole rack and costing
multiple million US$...   (and no, you won't be able to do that with
Linux or any other generic OS without heavy hardware support)

gert
-- 
"If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you 
 feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted 
 it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
                             Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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