[Ilugc] NTFS to ext3 file transfer how ?
- From: binand@xxxxxxxxx (Binand Sethumadhavan)
- Date: Tue Jan 17 23:25:13 2006
On 17/01/06, Sriram Karra <skarra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Binand's point that it has all come down to how the company wants to
market a product is the truth.
Actually, my point was about datacenter consolidation. This one about
the convergence of switches and routers, the predominance of blade
servers, popularity of virtualisation etc. all support this view of
mine.
For e.g. Cisco's highest end 'switch' is the Catalyst 6500. It does
L3 as well, ofcourse, and is called a Switch-Router. The *same* box,
loaded with a different IOS feature set (routing protocols and stuff),
is marketed as the 7600 router. The Catalyst 6500 is where the switch
and router lines of Cisco converge.
All of Cisco's newer switches - the 3750, the 4506, the 4510 (these
are not all that new, though) - support both L2 and L3. Some older
ones (ie, ones that haven't reached end-of-life yet) can still be
upgraded to full L3 if the hardware is compatible.
Cisco's pure routers still have a market - I do believe the 26xx
series routers are the best for an office DSL connection. Their
carrier grade routers still drive 80% of Internet traffic. But in the
in-between market, there is an increasing trend towards merging these
two product lines - routers and switches - saving premium resources in
the datacenter, space/power/HVAC capacity.
And even though I have been talking about Cisco all the time, these
observations are applicable to the others - like Foundry - as well.
Binand
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