Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

Thu Jan 13 13:18:00 UTC 2011

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:10:16PM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote:
> 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

Yes, and then they keep their proprietary implementation instead of 
phasing it out, and no one migrates to the standard one which leads to 
vendor lockin.