Re: 10G ethernet and 802.1q

From: Shahid Ansari (shahid1357@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 07:33:18 ART


Hi Reza,

Most of the time when I go through RFP ,some companies they mentioned this
kind of sign .
I consider may be they desire for Cisco solution but they can not mention it
directly in RFP .
As 802.1q is open standard and ISL is Cisco Prop.

any ideas guys!

Thanks
Shahid

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Reza Toghraee <reza@toghraee.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Anyone has any idea about this sentence?
>
> " The backbone links between Access switches and core switches will be
> provisioned purely as 10 Gigabit Ethernet. That is to say, that the 802.1q
> VLAN trunking will not be employed since this protocol is old and does not
> support the high bandwidth requirements for new services / applications."
>
>
> It's from a local Cisco staff, do they have some secrets in 10G Ethernet
> links?
>
> Regards
>
>
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