Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)

[Steven Schnell <schnell () gsd sprint com>]

At 00:36 10/22/97 -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
> Aren't all the Gigaswitches from DEC ATM backed anyway? (FDDI is an 
> emulation on an OC3/12 card slot?) That's what the DEC literature seemed 
> to say when I perused it last.
>
> -Deepak.
Absolutely not.  The GS/F and the GS/A are not the same.  They even employ
slightly different crossbar architectures.  The GS/F does support an ATM
line card however.

ss

> On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Alan Hannan wrote:
>
> > > Actually, there is at least one known way to build an exchange
> > > point which scales nearly indefinitely.  We're working on making
> > > it real.  Other folks may have other ideas.
> >
> >   Cool, Vadim; welcome to the ATM bandwagon! 
> >
> >   :-)
> >
> >   -alan
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