North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)
>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. Not. Gigaswitch is a crossbar-based _packet_ switch. I recall reading fairly comprehensive article on its internals. Most likely it is still available from somewhere on Internet. If i understand correctly, its ATM interfaces do packet shredding/reassembly. --vadim
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