[13404] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Schnell, Sprint Corporation)
Wed Nov 5 10:47:08 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 09:36:04 -0600
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
From: "Steven Schnell, Sprint Corporation" <schnell@gsd.sprint.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199711050919.BAA01169@wisdom.rc.vix.com>
Then you should know that DEC does not manufacture their
GIGAswitch/Ethernet. They OEM the Cajun P550 switch from Prominent. DEC
has added software support for hunt groups between their new Fast Ethernet
card for the GIGAswitch/FDDI and the GbE switch.
Steven
At 01:19 AM 11/5/97 -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
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