>Does anyone have any info to state whether the Netcore product works? This info would be greatly appreciated.<
fwiw, another warm & fuzzy.
cheers,
-chris.
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Data Communications
July 07, 1999, Issue: 2810
Section: Newsfront
The Trouble With Terabit
Stephen Saunders (New York)
Terabit? Make it terabut.
Problems with silicon are delaying next-generation terabit routers, and that spells delay for service providers and their customers: Until the Internet gets more robust routing, they're going to have to wait for such value-added services as voice over IP and the latest virtual private networks. Observers say that almost no one has gotten the silicon to work, which may explain why vendors are doing a lot more talking than shipping. "The only ones we've seen working are those from Juniper [Networks Inc., Mountain View, Calif.] and Netcore," says Ian Mashiter, founder and vice president of marketing at Ennovate Networks Inc. (Boxborough, Mass.), which makes an IP switch that sits at the edge of the Internet and talks to terabit routers in the core. "Each time a problem is discovered in the routing silicon it has to be recast, and that delays things by six to nine months," says John M. Shaw, vice president of marketing at Netcore Systems Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.), which claims to have gotten around the problem by using FPGAs and off-the-shelf silicon instead of ASICs. It plans to recast the product into silicon next year, once it has gotten everything stable. Other terabit router vendors deny that they are experiencing unforeseen problems, or offered no comment. |
