[13906] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone planning to peer with these guys ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Thu Nov 20 21:51:07 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 21:47:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.971120210314.21662D-100000@ivan.iecc.com>
> Technical Details: GTMI has established a national backbone which
> operates as a fully-meshed network operating at DS-3 speeds, and
> interconnecting, or "peering" with several other networks at undisclosed
> private peering points. Multiple Lucent 5E12 switches, capable of
> processing data using multiple protocols including Internet (IP)
> Protocol, will route the traffic through the network. Dr. Robert
> Elliot, Chief Technology Officer, was quoted as saying, "We are excited
> about employing the Lucent 5E12 switches in the new network
> architecture. It just proves that IP telephony is becoming a reality."
Could someone more clued in on Lucent switches comment on this? I went to
Lucent's web site and did a search for 5E12 and it returned nothing. I
found some stuff on 5E11, which apparently is a new software release for
the 5ESS-2000 switch.
Bradley
