Re: Inter-exchange media types

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

At 02:23 PM 4/25/96 -0400, ipasha () sprintlink net wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Jeremy Porter wrote:
>
> >  
> > I know of plans for at least 2 exchanges that will use 100baseTx   
> > as a connection option.  The only real problem is
> > the backplane limit of boxes that switch 100baseTX,
> > (Cisco Cat 5000, 1.2gbps).  This is only slightly
> > better than the Dec Gigaswitch limit of 800mbps.
>
>
>        DEC Gigaswitch is actually a 3.6Gb/s switch

Ye olde trick aggregate bandwidth answer.  I know that one.  ;-)

- paul


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