New MAE-EAST

Thu Nov 6 18:43:31 UTC 1997

Actually, introducing GbE into an existing switched-FDDI environment can be
a straightforward and relatively painless process.  The attendees at the
last NANOG were shown how this could be done in the presentation given by
Celeritis Techologies and DEC.  DEC has introduced a FE card with hunt
group support for their GIGAswitch/Ethernet box (aka, Prominent P550).  A
FE hunt group between the switches and FDDI and 10/100/Gb Ethernet clients
supposedly provides seamless bridging and smooth migration to GbE.  You can
even equip a NAP router that has an existing FDDI interface with a FE
interface for loadleveling of traffic across NAP interfaces and/or for
fail-over to either NAP switch.

Steven

At 11:28 AM 11/6/97 -0500, John wrote:
>===== Alec H. Peterson previously wrote: ====
>> 
>> > indicated satisfaction with exhange points run by other parties.  What
>> > the problems of MAE-EAST indicate to me is that FDDI/GigaSwitches are
>> > not the appropriate technology for MAE-EAST sized exchanges and that MFS
>> > is the wrong company to be running an exhange point.
>> 
>
>Just try to bring up another point. Anyone has thought about Gigabit ethernet
>switches?
>
>Prominet's Cajun switch has a 45GB backplane. Supports up to 24 full-duplex
>                              ^^^^
>Gigabit ethernet ports or 120 full-duplex fastethernet ports, or a mix
>of both. The price is also very reasonable.
>
>Guess that'd be too much of a change... :-) If this is not good for MAE-E,
>it might be good for some other new exchanges.
>
>
>Jun
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