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Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI

  • From: Bill Manning
  • Date: Tue Oct 15 10:43:44 1996 
> This is also my understanding.  I thought I saw some work being done
> on an enhanced DXI specification, (the interface between the router and
> the ATM DSU), but I think that, for the most part, not much work is
> being done with ATM DSU solutions today.  ATM DSUs were largely
> developed as a quick-to-market solution for adding ATM functionality
> to routers, without the need for new router boards.  Their time has passed.
> 
> -tjs

	I don't think that HSSI was designed as a point solution
	until ATM came along.  Couching your answers in the context
	of an ATM solution is presumption, or so it appears to me.

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--bill
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