[8792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ascend GRF400
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Zimmerman)
Fri Apr 25 08:20:54 1997
From: garyz@savvis.com (Gary Zimmerman)
To: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@jain.com>, "Tim Salo" <salo@msc.edu>
Cc: <jprovo@ma.ultranet.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 06:50:42 -0700
Not exactly true, we have used a HSSI card from NetStar since October of
last year. I know they have had a ethernet card after that but before
Ascend. What really matters though is the software that runs the cards,
and since Ascend has taken over we are seeing releases for upgrades and
fixes coming alot faster. More people to throw at it.... Any way, we were
a early adopter and have used all the cards that are available, from
ethernet, fddi, hssi and atm. T1 card does not make allot of since to us,
but it does to our customers and I know they are working on it as we have
these discussion.
Gary Zimmerman
V.P. of Network Engineering
Savvis Communications Corp.
email: garyz@savvis.com
http://www.savvis.com
Office: 314.719.2423
Address: 7777 Bonhomme Suite 1000
St. Louis, MO 63105
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> From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
> To: Tim Salo <salo@msc.edu>
> Cc: jprovo@ma.ultranet.com; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Ascend GRF400
> Date: Thursday, April 24, 1997 10:35 AM
>
>
> (I do not know if this is true, but it is a guess). That the Netstar
> product did the ATM routing extremely well. I believe that was its
> market originally.. All of the other cards, the ether, the new T1 line
> cards (hah-hah) maybe even the HSSI cards are all new since Ascend took
> them over, to broaden their market.
>
> I hear their ATM interfaces are great, haven't played with them yet
though.
>
> Just a thought,
>
> -Deepak.
>
> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Tim Salo wrote:
>
> > > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:12:43 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo@ma.ultranet.com>
> > > To: neil@domino.org
> > > Subject: Re: Ascend GRF400
> > > Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> > > [...]
> > > - the grf is not all of ascend. maybe they finally got things
> > > right?
> > > [...]
> >
> > It is probably useful to differentiate between Netstar, which was
> > recently acquired by Ascend, and the rest of Ascend. The GigaRouter
> > was developed by Netstar prior to its acquisition by Ascend.
> >
> > -tjs
> >
