It seems every networking vendor is keen to sell into the service provider space these days. And why not? Aside from a handful of large, multi-national corporations, no organization uses as much networking gear.
Just when it seemed like the landscape for national telecommunications providers was becoming slightly more stable, along comes another competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) with Canada-wide ambitions.
It seems all network infrastructure vendors these days have boxes that do everything. Not only do most routers (or switches or whatever other aliases they might be marketed under) now provide wirespeed routing, switching and port densities to die for, but almost all can perform some level of traffic prioritization.