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Steven Schnell sez: > > > FDDI is a finished standard and no more bandwidth upgrades are planned. > Ethernet, however, is now in the gigabit range. It may be extended to > operate in the multi-gigabit range, if the IEEE decides the frame format > and the media access method will work at such speeds. Products based on > GbE are in use today. A NAP can drop in one or two GbE switches, connect > them to existing GIGAswitch/FDDIs, and scale (somewhat) from there. Come > to NANOG this next week to see how this can be done. See http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html for an application of Packet Engine GbE. -- A host is a host from coast to [email protected] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |