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It’s time for Interop to go back to the future
by Zeus Kerravala
The case for reverting to Interop's old days, when interoperability still mattered.
Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly ready to give Cisco and Juniper a run for the money in core routing. The company, which dukes it out with both in service provider edge routing, is about to pop a core router based on its 400Gbps FP3 processor, according to ITWire.
This would be ALU's second run at the core. Anyone remember the 7770 Routing Core Platform and 7670 Routing Switch Platform with ACEIS? The 7770 was then respun into the 7770 Optical Branch Exchange.
Only the 7670 RSP appears to have survived from that fearsome foursome.
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