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Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Oct 22 00:44:39 1997

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:36:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
To: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>
cc: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971021224618.16127@freedom.bythetrees.com>


Aren't all the Gigaswitches from DEC ATM backed anyway? (FDDI is an 
emulation on an OC3/12 card slot?) That's what the DEC literature seemed 
to say when I perused it last.

-Deepak.

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Alan Hannan wrote:

> 
> > Actually, there is at least one known way to build an exchange
> > point which scales nearly indefinitely.  We're working on making
> > it real.  Other folks may have other ideas.
> 
>   Cool, Vadim; welcome to the ATM bandwagon! 
> 
>   :-)
> 
>   -alan
> 

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