Re: MAE-East update

["Steven Schnell, Sprint Corporation" <schnell () gsd sprint com>]

Then you should know that DEC does not manufacture their
GIGAswitch/Ethernet. They OEM the Cajun P550 switch from Prominent.  DEC
has added software support for hunt groups between their new Fast Ethernet
card for the GIGAswitch/FDDI and the GbE switch.

Steven

At 01:19 AM 11/5/97 -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > Does anyone know if DEC manufactures the gigaswitch itself, or
> > is it OEM'd, and from whom?
>
> DEC manufactures it.  (I doubt if anyone, anywhere else, still has an ECL fab
> that can make what a GIGAswitch has inside it.)
>
> Y'know, for a long while we've been happy with FDDI for interconnects since
> it was the fastest non-ATM LANish thing available and it had a decent sized
> MTU.  But FDDI is in end-of-life and I sure am glad that DEC announced plans
> to build gigabit ethernet switches.  <clink> here's to 10 more years of non-
> junk interconnect hardware.

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