[913] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: links on the blink (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Nov 6 16:49:40 1995
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 16:43:49 -0500
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@sprint.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu, paul@vix.com
Paul Vixie wrote:
>(As long as I'm singing the GIGAswitch's praises, I'd like to add that DEC
>is planning a GIGAswitch-to-GIGAswitch interconnect product but it will only
>run at a few hundred megabits, not the full b/w of the crossbar; and further,
>they now sell an ATM version of the GIGAswitch in case you don't want FDDI
>but you need an ATM with working congestion control.)
It also supports full-duplex FDDI, which is about as fast as ATM/AAL5
over OC-3 and has no ATM problems (i.e. things like multicasting work
as they are supposed to). Now if only YFRV produced devices which
could talk full-duplex FDDI and native IP over SONET...
--vadim
