BPDU's

This is an unimportant type of question, but I just had to know.

Has anyone here thats been in the industry ever heard of BPDU's called
bipeedoo's????

I just heard someone say that and nearly fell out my chair. I never really got into that whole "trying to pronounce acronyms" bit. Whats next? Ahspuf and eegrip?

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srg

Netstudent wrote:

This is an unimportant type of question, but I just had to know.

Has anyone here thats been in the industry ever heard of BPDU's called
bipeedoo's????

I just heard someone say that and nearly fell out my chair. I never really got into that whole "trying to pronounce acronyms" bit. Whats next? Ahspuf and eegrip?

haha yeah i first heard bipeedoos in some CBT nugget i think. been calling them that ever since

i know I've heard someone call it ee-i-grip also.. sounds kinda funny

mikearama

I've gotten everyone at all of my gigs to say E-I-grip. What's so funny???

Beepeedoo's... that's a new one. I'll steal it.

Netstudent

Whats funny is you have all these highly skilled people, some with college degrees, that sound like they are speakin some kind of IT creole.

E-I-grip

Partial pronunciaton..EVEN BETTER!

Rearden

bpdu is a tough one to say. I get tripped up half the time I say the acronym.

Netstudent

well then maybe I'll hop on the IT creole bandwagon with the rest of you guys.

Slowhand

I've heard BPDU pronounced as a word at one place, outside of CBT Nuggets and TestOut. I was at the RSA convention in 2005, listening to a CCIE Voice at the Cisco Booth, talking about VoIP security and the impact of VoIP traffic on non-VoIP equipment, and how to secure voice traffic through the whole network. He was firing off information pretty quickly, but at one point he began talking about switching and spanning-tree, and specifically, how topology changes can affect VoIP traffic. There was a moment when a couple of people chuckled, because he did, in fact, use the term 'bipeedo'. Ironically, the scattered laughter didn't phase him, as if though the term was a Cisco norm, and he just went on with his presentation.