[12993] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Schnell)
Wed Oct 22 10:06:05 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 07:39:00 -0500
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
From: Steven Schnell <schnell@gsd.sprint.com>
Cc: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>, Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971022003522.15160F-100000@aries.ai.net>
At 00:36 10/22/97 -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
>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.
>
Absolutely not. The GS/F and the GS/A are not the same. They even employ
slightly different crossbar architectures. The GS/F does support an ATM
line card however.
ss
>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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