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Salaries, bonuses, perks and stock awards add up to big pay packages for tech CEOs
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Good one !!By Anonymous on February 11, 2009, 2:52 amThanks, it is Nice.
Why the hate?By Anonymous on February 10, 2009, 2:58 pmDon't hate on Cisco. They make quality products that ha.......//#CARRIER LOST#//............ Ok, back, had to reboot my Linksys. Carry on.
I see you bought into the cisco hypeBy Anonymous on February 10, 2009, 2:27 pmOne day, in 1985, as I was the project leader at UC Berkeley, I asked one of the technicians - "what is that box over there?" It was a prototype cisco terminal server, you see that's all they had, as my team of folks were installing 35 Proteon 4200 series routers at that time. Proteon beat cisco to the market with routers by a bunch. I suggest you find out who Howard Salwen and J. Noel Chiappa are if you really want to know routers. Then look for Dr. David Mills and the Fuzzball. Fuzzball preceded Proteon products too... Too bad, no research done for this article. Pure cisco garbage. Why did cisco succeed and Proteon fail? Proteon sold to military and government customers and FOLLOWED THE RFCs and the MILSPECs. cisco ignored the standards. Specifically the "hop count" or TTL parameter. Good move on their part? Depends on if you are a standards believer or not... And while you're at it, you should mention the contribuions of Dr. David Clark of MIT; the first Internet architect, before Vint Cerf. Yes, there are indeed some of us around who know this topic.
poor articleBy Anonymous on February 10, 2009, 1:39 pmway to general, fixates on Cisco's contributions
Sponsorship?By Anonymous on February 10, 2009, 12:40 pmDid Cisco sponsor this article or something?
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Router's-In-SpaceBy Anonymous on February 10, 2009, 9:30 ammankind has reached distances measuring in light-years. We will be sending space stations all around the milky-way. Rather than transmitting straight from the space station far away to a receiver on Earth, we can break the journey of the information by placing wireless routers in between. even though the shortest distance is always a straight line, placing a router in between may help to retain the signal. this way no matter where ever a station in the galaxy (like a host in the internet mesh) can reach its destination(earth) in the fastest way. -Krishnanand Penumatsa
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what a interesting...By Anonymous on June 17, 2009, 11:05 amI remember cisco have been acquiring lots of small compnay to expand their chunks of pie. between 1998-2003, over 70 companies had been mergered as you know. so my 2 cents is the ciscos beautiful marketing output.
Router slideshowBy Anonymous on April 14, 2009, 6:19 pmThis is somewhat educational as long as you can get over it is a Cisco is GOD approach. It ends up being a Cisco ad. What about Nortel and Tasman and many others ... Especially those with different different design architecture. Nortel had much more stable platform in the BLN BCN line in the early 90s as did Wellfleet..
Give us a breakBy Anonymous on February 16, 2009, 10:56 amThis was a poor, incomplete and misleading history of the router. When I was with Bridge Communications (later merged with 3Com), we competed with Proteon. Nobody had even heard of Cisco. A bit later, Wellfleet smoked Cisco in all router performance tests with their multiprocessing platform. Why did eventually Cisco win? Superior marketing and short-sightedness on the part of their competitors: Wellfleet should have merged with FORE instead of Nortel. 3Com should have continued router development of the Bridge Communications products. I don't know what happened to Proteon. This article confirms that Cisco still rules in marketing. Cisco router history is: Late to the party. Good; but NEVER best. Best known for ruthless sales techniques int the old days.
Why Cisco WonBy Anonymous on August 2, 2009, 1:23 amCisco won because they had much better software than did Bridge, Proteon, or Wellfleet. And, Cisco was committed to the NSFNET is ways that the other vendors never were. Cisco spent a lot of money developing software, such as their BGP implementation, that was useful pretty much nowhere but the NSFNET. So, Cisco pretty quickly dominated the market for the NSFNET midlevels (regional ISPs). And, if your company wanted to connect to the NFSNET, you bought Cisco routers because your ISP used Cisco routers. Cisco bet big on the NSFNET, and won. I evaluated routers in the very late 1980s or early 1990s. Cisco had released the AGS, but it didn't yet dominate that market. We had a bunch of Bridge bridges (can you say "nationwide broadcast storm"?). But, Bridge didn't have a really good IP story at the time. I told the Wellfleet sales people (and I think their president was there, too) that what I really wanted was Wellfleet hardware and Cisco software (Cisco hardware was pretty unimaginative at the time). Wellfleet responded that they heard that a lot. Proteon brought in Noel Chiappa. I asked why we should buy Proteon rather than Cisco. Noel admitted that Cisco's software was ahead of Proteon's at the moment. (I assume the sales guy kicked him later). Even Cisco's AGS was, in my opinion at the time, the best available router. The distance between Cisco and its competitors only increased as the NSFNET evolved into today's commercial Internet.
Slanted, no doubtBy Anonymous on February 13, 2009, 4:23 amI don't necessarily think it is done with intent, but the router history presented is not the history of the router, rather a mostly cisco story. As mentioned by one commenter, Proteon and in particular Dave Mills and the Fuzzballs (PDP11/20s and such) were instrumental for an extended period of the Internet History. They did (mostluy) what BBNs IMP did, and were relatively cheap. Also, Bridge Communications were 'big' in this (tiny) market before Cisco came to life - with terminalservers and routers (ca. 1983-1987). When Cisco startet to gain real presence in the marked, Wellfleet was on their heels, keeping them on their toes.
Brought me back...By Anonymous on February 12, 2009, 5:48 pmWell, whether this article was sponsored by Cisco or not - the image of the old Cisco AGS sure brought me back. I've installed and uninstalled a ton of those over the years. Never thought I'd see one again. Josh
re sponsorship?By Anonymous on February 11, 2009, 9:05 pmno, i doubt Cisco sponsored this, if we did, they would of highlighted the newest boxes they have like Nexus
ancient historyBy Anonymous on February 11, 2009, 9:27 amThe military has been doing this for some time now... To eliminate the earthstation-satellite-earthstation-satellite-earthstation path (necessary if you are transmitting a long distance) and the latency approaching 8 seconds, the military created a system that goes earthstation-satellite-satellite-earthstation. The number of s-s links is unlimited. What do you suppose is in those satellites? Ummm, could it be routers?