[612] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: who will privide the 1st Gbit switches to NREN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postm)
Sat Apr 20 17:05:10 1991
From: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <9104201709.AA13505@relay1.UU.NET>
To: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 91 14:04:06 -0700
The only gigabit pipe you can buy today that I know of is the UltraBus,
from Ultra Network Systems of San Jose. We own one that we're not using
for networking, per se - it is connected to our Cray, and has a pair of
graphics frame buffers in it.
cisco Systems makes an interface that goes at 125Mbit/sec into it now,
and since the companies have announced a collaboration, I think it is
reasonable to assume that cisco has gigabit routers in their plans, if
not on the drawing board.
Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com
