Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

Mon Jan 10 22:54:33 UTC 2011

To be fair to Cisco and maybe I'm way off here. But it seems they do come out with a way to do things first which then become a standard that
they have to follow.

ISL/DOT1Q
HSRP/VRRP
etherchannel/LACP

Just some examples..... I'm not aware of too many other vendors that create their own protocol, in which they then become a standard?

> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:46:53 -0800
> From: sethm at rollernet.us
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
> 
> On 1/10/2011 14:32, Jeff Kell wrote:
> > On 1/10/2011 3:20 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
> >> HP probably was the most helpful vendor i've dealt with in relation to solving/providing inter vendor interoperability solutions.   they have PDF booklets on many  things we would run into during work.  for example,  setting up STP between Cisco and HP gear,  ( http://cdn.procurve.com/training/Manuals/ProCurve-and-Cisco-STP-Interoperability.pdf ).
> > 
> > Well, technically, the HP reference tells you how to convert your Cisco
> > default PVST over to MST to match the HP preference.
> > 
> > The handful of HP switches versus the stacks and stacks of production
> > Cisco requiring conversion to suit them was "intimidating" to say the
> > least :-)
> > 
> 
> 
> To be fair, one is Cisco proprietary while the other is IEEE 802.1Q.
> 
> ~Seth
> 