Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

[sethm at rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen)]

On 1/10/2011 14:54, Brandon Kim wrote:
> 
> To be fair to Cisco and maybe I'm way off here. But it seems they do come out with a way to do things first which then become a standard that
> they have to follow.
> 
> ISL/DOT1Q
> HSRP/VRRP
> etherchannel/LACP
> 
> Just some examples..... I'm not aware of too many other vendors that create their own protocol, in which they then become a standard?
> 
> 


All I found (quickly without trying too hard) is that the IEEE version
is based on Cisco's MISTP rather than PVST.

~Seth