New POWER toys

[Doc Shipley]

William Donzelli wrote:
>>   We're not talking some mom & pop ISP operation, either.  This was in 
>>a major backbone provider's NOC.
> 
> 
> Wow, that is pretty neat. ANS had to ditch them because the cards just
> could not handle really big routing tables anymore.

   These systems had been managing some dedicated circuits and I think 
catching and collating transaction and error data from that facility and 
a couple of other NOCs for a long long time.

> We ditched the RS/6000s and converted to a mixed Bay/Cisco backbone -
> something that would cause a big headache later on.

   Aye.  That I can believe.


	Doc