Re: exchange point media (was: Re: MAE-EAST Moving? ...)

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Simon Lockhart wrote:

> Interestingly, no-one seems to have mentioned LINX yet in this discussion. 
> LINX have been offering GigE connections to their switch for over a year 
> now as a trial, and in the last few months they are now "live". There are 
> apparently some LINX members pushing a few 100Mb/s through their GigE 
> connection.

I am aware of the LINX and I have no doubt that it'll work to interchange
over GigE. I do believe that GigE and 10GigE with jumbo frames could be
accepted as an upgrade from the existing FDDI shared media exchanges.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se