Inter-exchange media types

Fri Apr 26 03:53:25 UTC 1996

At 02:23 PM 4/25/96 -0400, ipasha at sprintlink.net wrote:

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>On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Jeremy Porter wrote:
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>> 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.
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>        DEC Gigaswitch is actually a 3.6Gb/s switch
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Ye olde trick aggregate bandwidth answer.  I know that one.  ;-)

- paul

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