[608] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
who will privide the 1st Gbit switches to NREN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net)
Sat Apr 20 13:11:27 1991
From: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Sat Apr 20 13:06:58 1991
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 20-APR-91 13:06
cook@tmn
Could any readers of this list help me to find out what Proteon,
Wellfleet, sico, BBN etc are doing in the way of prototyping gigabit
switches? To the best of my knowledge these companies are NOT doing this
in the testbeds. Does this mean they aren't doing it at all?
Maybe they will form a consortium to license and build the Sunshine switch
that Bellcore is working on???
It seems unlikely that the gov't would buy japanese switches for a stage
one nren. What companies *WILL* have switches to answer an NREN rfq??
AT&T, the Bellcore licensee, and IBM. Who else?
