[12985] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Oct 22 01:40:22 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:31:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: deepak@jain.com, hannan@bythetrees.com
Cc: avg@pluris.com, nanog@merit.edu
>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.
Not. Gigaswitch is a crossbar-based _packet_ switch. I recall reading
fairly comprehensive article on its internals. Most likely it is still
available from somewhere on Internet.
If i understand correctly, its ATM interfaces do packet shredding/reassembly.
--vadim
