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Re: Inter-exchange media types

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian Kim)
Thu Apr 25 13:39:28 1996

Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:36:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dorian Kim <dorian@cic.net>
To: bmanning@isi.edu
cc: curtis@ans.net, jerry@fc.net, tex@isc.upenn.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604251706.AA17323@zed.isi.edu>

On Thu, 25 Apr 1996 bmanning@isi.edu wrote:

> 	There are rumors/rumblings afoot that we have a operational
> 	600M/b thingie which now has PCI interfaces in addition
> 	to the existing sbus, nubus and EISA bus cards.  Now if we
> 	can just get infrastructure vendors to provide something
> 	that we can plug into,  this would potentially make a
> 	reasonable ExchangeNG (tm).  Imagine a lan technology that
> 	would keep up with multiple incoming OC3s!  (where is that
> 	gigabit lan technology when you need it... :)

Yell at the router/switch/xxx vendor of your choice. :)

-dorian


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