[5355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randolph C. Nicklas)
Wed Oct 16 09:25:16 1996
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:09:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Randolph C. Nicklas" <rcn@mci.net>
To: Jon Green <jon@worf.netins.net>
cc: alex@relcom.eu.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610161247.HAA29415@worf.netins.net>
Jon,
Are you aware of the 16-slot Ascend/NetStar GigaRouter?
I am not sure if this router supports HSSI/Ethernet
yet.
Randy
>I took a look at the Ascend GRF (which stands for "Goes Real Fast"). I
>was impressed with the performance of it, but not with the size. It's
>too small. With only 4 slots, it can have 8 HSSI ports, 8 ATM OC-3
>ports, or 4 OC-12 ports. I don't think that's large enough for most of
>the big providers. It also has no V.35 ports, which are important for
>some of us that are doing a mixture of high-speed links and slower T1.
>The number of packets this thing can push through it is impressive, though.
>
>-Jon
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