Cisco and the tobacco industry

Sun Jul 31 00:11:54 UTC 2005

Hi Jim,

If I remember correctly there was some press hype about the idea of 
modularising IOS just about a year ago, which inevitably culminated IOS 
XR for carrier products. iirc there wasn't any talk of backports or 
deployments for non carrier equipment. ( I stand to be corrected of course )
The 12000 series got XR'd and was then renamed to the XR12000. That at 
least suggests that Cisco's idea could be that their current range of 
switches/routers could be upgraded to XR instead of buying "new range" 
equipment. I surely hope this turns out to be the policy on all Cisco 
ranges at the end of the day.

cheers,
ivan

Jim McBurnett wrote:

>QUOTE
>From: Ivan Groenewald [mailto:ivang at xtrahost.co.uk] 
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>IMHO IOS should be completely modular. ie SNMP/QOS/BGP etc should be a
>loadable module etc. In the event of you patching a service specific
>bug, you'd only upload the new modules and insmod them. I'd be very
>happy if the Cisco router fairy would write and backport such an IOS.
>That should end this idiotic router rebooting nonsense that the internet
>is plagued with, for the most part.
>/QUOTE
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>If I remember correctly, This Exactly where Cisco has said they are
>going...
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>With the IOS XR Just as the beginning..
>
>Does anyone else remember this?
>
>Jim 
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