click on real router hardware?

[Robert Morris]

I mentioned to my friend Victor at Nortel (really Bay Networks)
that I wanted real router hardware that we could try to program
like Click; here's what came back:

  Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:21:27 -0400
  To: rtm at lcs.mit.edu
  From: Franco Travostino <travos at nortelnetworks.com>
  Subject: Click meets commercial-grade routers
  
  Hi, Robert,
  
  Victor Firoiu told me that you would be interested in exploring the Subj,
  possibly with support of Nortel SW and HW. If this is still the case, I'd
  gladly volunteer my time to provide you the commercial-grade,
  product-quality perspective. Should this work out, we can then explore
  which gear would best fit your goals. 
  
  I recently worked as the architect for Open IP, Nortel's
  "as-modular-as-it-gets", "as-platform-neutral-as-it-gets" routing software
  currently shipped in source code form to a good number of startups and
  established businesses. My transition to commercial-grade network gear is
  fairly recent. Prior to that, I served as DARPA PI and, among things, I had
  Active Network grants. I hope I can do a fair job at describing you the
  things that produced the biggest impact in my transition.
  
  I'm not yet familiar with Click code (besides the information I have got
  from your SOSP paper). I'm familiar with the work in your related work
  section (in particular, I've spent some 5 years toying with the x-kernel!),
  so I hope it won't be too difficult to find a common terminology.
  
  cheers
  -franco
  
  PS. My office is next to Victor's. But I can easily come downtown to visit
  you, when I'm not travelling.
  
  ====================
  
  Franco Travostino
  Consulting Architect
  Nortel Networks Technology Center
  travos at nortelnetworks.com
  978-288-7708