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At 00:36 10/22/97 -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: > >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. > >-Deepak. > Absolutely not. The GS/F and the GS/A are not the same. They even employ slightly different crossbar architectures. The GS/F does support an ATM line card however. ss >On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Alan Hannan wrote: > >> >> > Actually, there is at least one known way to build an exchange >> > point which scales nearly indefinitely. We're working on making >> > it real. Other folks may have other ideas. >> >> Cool, Vadim; welcome to the ATM bandwagon! >> >> :-) >> >> -alan >> > > **************************************************************************** **** Phone: 1.816.854.2113 Fax: 1.816.854.2201 Numeric Pages: 1.800.724.3329, PIN 398.6644 Alpha Pages: 1.800.724.3508, PIN 398.6644 Outside U.S.: +1.619.279.8495, PIN 398.6644 Text Page via Internet: [email protected] **************************************************************************** ****
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