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Actually, introducing GbE into an existing switched-FDDI environment can be a straightforward and relatively painless process. The attendees at the last NANOG were shown how this could be done in the presentation given by Celeritis Techologies and DEC. DEC has introduced a FE card with hunt group support for their GIGAswitch/Ethernet box (aka, Prominent P550). A FE hunt group between the switches and FDDI and 10/100/Gb Ethernet clients supposedly provides seamless bridging and smooth migration to GbE. You can even equip a NAP router that has an existing FDDI interface with a FE interface for loadleveling of traffic across NAP interfaces and/or for fail-over to either NAP switch. Steven At 11:28 AM 11/6/97 -0500, John wrote: >===== Alec H. Peterson previously wrote: ==== >> >> > indicated satisfaction with exhange points run by other parties. What >> > the problems of MAE-EAST indicate to me is that FDDI/GigaSwitches are >> > not the appropriate technology for MAE-EAST sized exchanges and that MFS >> > is the wrong company to be running an exhange point. >> > >Just try to bring up another point. Anyone has thought about Gigabit ethernet >switches? > >Prominet's Cajun switch has a 45GB backplane. Supports up to 24 full-duplex > ^^^^ >Gigabit ethernet ports or 120 full-duplex fastethernet ports, or a mix >of both. The price is also very reasonable. > >Guess that'd be too much of a change... :-) If this is not good for MAE-E, >it might be good for some other new exchanges. > > >Jun >-- >Jun (John) Wu | Voice: (703)689-5325 >CCIE# 2709 | Fax: (703)478-7852 >Supervisor - Global IP Systems & Services | Email: [email protected] >Global One Communications L.L.C. | URL: http://wolfox.gip.net/jun > >
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