Geek Style

Tony Li has left Procket a while ago. He was a former employee of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks before joining Procket in 1999. Currently he is working at Verio, playing ISP as he says.

In his latest interview with CNet News.com, he gave some insight into new trends he sees in the IP routing market and the Internet in general.

I would much rather be in a start-up than a large company. My style is much more about getting things done, and I prefer the freedom rather than the many layers of process that are usually necessary in a big company.

(this is what I and Tony Li have in common )

Remember rumors about Procket and Cisco? Now its official.

What Juniper is doing?

After completing the acquisition of NetScreen, Juniper is ready to make the next big moves. First of them is introduction of J Series of low-end routers (codenamed Pepsi). And the next important move (which is not confirmed by juniper yet) is acqusition of Extreme Networks.

This would be very important for Cisco Systems, since Juniper was only a competitor in high-end routers market, but after recent acqusitions and new products, they will enter the low-end router market as well as switching area.

And what about Cisco?

On the other hand, Cisco Systems is not sitting aside. Cisco is also trying to beat Juniper is high-end routing market by releasing the brand new CRS-1 (up to 92 Tbps. enough for your network?) which is a revolution from Cisco. CRS-1 is not based on old school IOS software, but on brand-new shiny Cisco IOS XR operating system. IOS XR itself is based on QNX RTOS.

And at last, “Cisco is acquiring certain assets and intellectual property from router start-up Procket Networks for about $80 million”, according to NWFusion article. I was not lucky enough to have a Procket router, but I should admit their products look very good.