[2681] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inter-exchange media types
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Apr 25 23:55:42 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 23:53:25 -0400
To: ipasha@sprintlink.net
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: Jeremy Porter <jerry@fc.net>, "Jon 'tex' Boone" <tex@isc.upenn.edu>,
nanog@merit.edu
At 02:23 PM 4/25/96 -0400, ipasha@sprintlink.net wrote:
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>On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Jeremy Porter wrote:
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>> 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.
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> DEC Gigaswitch is actually a 3.6Gb/s switch
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Ye olde trick aggregate bandwidth answer. I know that one. ;-)
- paul
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