BPDU's

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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???? icon_lol.gif

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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  • srgsrg Member Posts: 140
    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???? icon_lol.gif

    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 :D
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  • mikearamamikearama Member Posts: 749
    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.
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  • NetstudentNetstudent Member Posts: 1,693 ■■■□□□□□□□
    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. icon_lol.gif

    E-I-grip
    Partial pronunciaton..EVEN BETTER! icon_lol.gif
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  • ReardenRearden Member Posts: 222
    bpdu is a tough one to say. I get tripped up half the time I say the acronym.
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  • NetstudentNetstudent Member Posts: 1,693 ■■■□□□□□□□
    well then maybe I'll hop on the IT creole bandwagon with the rest of you guys.
    There is no place like 127.0.0.1 BUT 209.62.5.3 is my 127.0.0.1 away from 127.0.0.1!
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  • SlowhandSlowhand Mod Posts: 5,161 Mod
    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.
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