Inter-exchange media types

Thu Apr 25 18:23:40 UTC 1996

On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Jeremy Porter wrote:

>  
> I know of plans for at least 2 exchanges that will use 100baseTx   
> as a connection option.  The only real problem is
> the backplane limit of boxes that switch 100baseTX,
> (Cisco Cat 5000, 1.2gbps).  This is only slightly
> better than the Dec Gigaswitch limit of 800mbps.

        DEC Gigaswitch is actually a 3.6Gb/s switch

       --Ismat 			