Re: Re: CISCO Layer 3 switch

[Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jose Nazario wrote:

> i think so. i had learned it was routing at wire speed (low latencies)
> that made a layer 3 switch not a router.

Interestingly, Cisco has referred to moving packets between interfaces
on routers as "switching" for quite some time.  Depending on what wire
you have, wire speed isn't necessarily all that fast ;)

Flow and Silicon switching both seem low latency to me, but sell on
router products- maybe there needs to be a better definition if anyone's
going to buy into the marketing?

Paul
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