[29265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: exchange point media (was: Re: MAE-EAST Moving? ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Jun 15 10:15:31 2000
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:05:21 +0200 (MEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> Interestingly, no-one seems to have mentioned LINX yet in this discussion.
> LINX have been offering GigE connections to their switch for over a year
> now as a trial, and in the last few months they are now "live". There are
> apparently some LINX members pushing a few 100Mb/s through their GigE
> connection.
I am aware of the LINX and I have no doubt that it'll work to interchange
over GigE. I do believe that GigE and 10GigE with jumbo frames could be
accepted as an upgrade from the existing FDDI shared media exchanges.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
