MAE-East update
Steven Schnell, Sprint Corporation
schnell at gsd.sprint.com
Wed Nov 5 15:36:04 UTC 1997
Then you should know that DEC does not manufacture their
GIGAswitch/Ethernet. They OEM the Cajun P550 switch from Prominent. DEC
has added software support for hunt groups between their new Fast Ethernet
card for the GIGAswitch/FDDI and the GbE switch.
Steven
At 01:19 AM 11/5/97 -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>> Does anyone know if DEC manufactures the gigaswitch itself, or
>> is it OEM'd, and from whom?
>
>DEC manufactures it. (I doubt if anyone, anywhere else, still has an ECL fab
>that can make what a GIGAswitch has inside it.)
>
>Y'know, for a long while we've been happy with FDDI for interconnects since
>it was the fastest non-ATM LANish thing available and it had a decent sized
>MTU. But FDDI is in end-of-life and I sure am glad that DEC announced plans
>to build gigabit ethernet switches. <clink> here's to 10 more years of non-
>junk interconnect hardware.
>
>
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