[2673] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inter-exchange media types
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ipasha@sprintlink.net)
Thu Apr 25 14:23:51 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:23:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: ipasha@sprintlink.net
To: Jeremy Porter <jerry@fc.net>
cc: "Jon 'tex' Boone" <tex@isc.upenn.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604250621.BAA09394@freeside.fc.net>
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Jeremy Porter wrote:
>
> I know of plans for at least 2 exchanges that will use 100baseTx
> as a connection option. The only real problem is
> the backplane limit of boxes that switch 100baseTX,
> (Cisco Cat 5000, 1.2gbps). This is only slightly
> better than the Dec Gigaswitch limit of 800mbps.
DEC Gigaswitch is actually a 3.6Gb/s switch
--Ismat
