[13402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Wed Nov 5 04:22:48 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Nov 1997 14:19:03 EST."
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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 01:19:34 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> Does anyone know if DEC manufactures the gigaswitch itself, or
> is it OEM'd, and from whom?
DEC manufactures it. (I doubt if anyone, anywhere else, still has an ECL fab
that can make what a GIGAswitch has inside it.)
Y'know, for a long while we've been happy with FDDI for interconnects since
it was the fastest non-ATM LANish thing available and it had a decent sized
MTU. But FDDI is in end-of-life and I sure am glad that DEC announced plans
to build gigabit ethernet switches. <clink> here's to 10 more years of non-
junk interconnect hardware.
