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In message <[email protected]>, Gordon C ook writes: > Sean writes: > > Thirdly, there are some very cunning > ideas being proposed by various hardware people for making > the 7500 do interesting things on the switching front that > very probably will get the router to deal with the kinds of > loads you're asking about. > > COOK: does this mean that there is some way to get the cisco to behave > like the cascade switch I asked about?? If not what in general does it mean? > > Finally you said if the 7500 doesn't perform well then you might have to > do the redesign I asked about.... meaning going to an atm switched > backbone with routers at the periphery of the backbone?? > > ******************************************************************** > Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscript.: Individ-ascii $85 > The COOK Report on Internet Non Profit. $150 > 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 Small Corp & Gov't $200 > (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 > Internet: [email protected] Corporate. Site Lic $650 Newly expanded COOK Report Web Pages http://pobox.com/cook/ > ******************************************************************** We are bound by non-disclosure to limit what we say about future products of the vendors we have chosen for final evaluation. I don't think it is any big secret that vendors do have new products in the works. IMO- the so called "wall" is not a problem but you need some heftier routers than what is commonly used today. I don't like the idea of going into a layer 2 and letting layer 2 deal with it. You can probably build a working network either way. Equipment cost per port is not our highest priority, it is secondary. Stability and low loss in our backbone is a very high priority. That says a lot about why the technology we ar looking at is different than PSI, Alternet, and Netcom (and maybe a bit different than Sprint too). ANS charges more for a reason. Curtis
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