[12986] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Malcolm)
Wed Oct 22 01:45:09 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 01:40:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joseph Malcolm <jmalcolm@uraeus.com>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
Cc: deepak@jain.com, hannan@bythetrees.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199710220531.WAA13285@viper.pluris.com>
Vadim Antonov writes:
>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.
There are two different gigaswitches, the Gigaswitch/FDDI and the
Gigaswitch/ATM. They are dissimilar internally and as far as I can
tell share little more than the name.
