RE: Advice on dealing with Sprint

["Chris A. Icide" <chris () nap net>]

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 () EASYNET NET]
Sent:  Thursday, September 26, 1996 11:11 AM
To:  Deepak Jain
Cc:  Steve Mansfield; Rob Liebschutz; hank () rem com; jon () worf netins net; nanog () merit edu; neil () EASYNET NET
Subject:  Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint 

On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:36:56 -0400 (EDT) 
 Deepak Jain <deepak () 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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