[1115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links on the blink - reprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marten Terpstra)
Tue Nov 21 11:03:38 1995
To: smd@sprint.net
Cc: cook@cookreport.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:47:07 EST.
<95Nov17.174721-0000_est.20701+23@chops.icp.net>
From: Marten Terpstra <marten@BayNetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:42:09 -0500
Sean writes:
* Key to the decision is the gamble that the switching
* ability of FR switches will compare with the switching
* ability of high-end routers in the same environment. This
* is not a gamble I am comfortable with, particularly as I
* have very strong ideas of how well an SSE-equipped 7000
* can switch packets in a backbone environment, and so far
* have only early impressions about one variety of popular
* FR switch in a similar environment.
Perhaps you have not looked at the right FR switch.
I know of at least one FR switch that will switch at
a higher rate than most currently used routers in a
backbone environment.
-Marten
