Advice on dealing with Sprint

Thu Sep 26 18:25:05 UTC 1996

Yes,

	I'm extremely suprised that this is their stance.  I'm pressed to find a
technical reason behind such a requirement.  The 7000 is a Motorola 68XXX
based system, and the 4500/4700 is a risc based system.  There have been
performance tests that have shown that the 45/47 boxes out perform the 
7000 boxes.  I'd be very interested in hearing Sprints' reasoning on this.

Chris

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From:  Neil J. McRae[SMTP:neil at EASYNET.NET]
Sent:  Thursday, September 26, 1996 11:11 AM
To:  Deepak Jain
Cc:  Steve Mansfield; Rob Liebschutz; hank at rem.com; jon at worf.netins.net; nanog at merit.edu; neil at EASYNET.NET
Subject:  Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint 

On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:36:56 -0400 (EDT) 
 Deepak Jain <deepak at jain.com> alleged:

> 
> Steve -
> 
> 	I think he means Sprint told him they would not BGP4 peer with 
> him if he didn't have a Cisco 7000 series router. Not that it wasn't 
> possible. :)
> 

You have to vote with your feet on this and take your money elsewhere.

Regards,
Neil.
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