From: Asbjorn Hojmark (Asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 19:33:07 GMT-3
> It seems that Cisco is moving away from ISL,
Yes, but that is a move that has been happening for a long time.
The Granite/K1 switches (Cat4000, 2948G, 2980G etc) has never
supported ISL.
> Is this an admission that most switched networks are multivendor
> and hence Cisco is stopping development on a proprietary
> protocol that is rarely being used?
It is Ciscos declared stretegy to adopt standards when they
appear. But if they see a need for some technology (trunking,
port aggregation, STP optimizations and whatnot) but no current
standard, they'll go ahead and implement something proprietary
for the interrim.
-A
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