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To: pat mudge who wrote (12692)	8/13/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Hagar	Read Replies (1) of 18016

relying too heavily on software-based systems The forwarding of data usually (nowadays) occur through hardware (ASICs, FPGAs, custom ICs...) but the control information necessarily needs to be handled in the background. I can't imagine a system that will take (presumably) SNMP commands and process that in hardware. if changes need to be made, they can be done without taking a network down I think part of the problem is that the changes are done on live networks. The changes can force topology changes coupled with circuit re-routing. These systems are designed to do just that. But if something goes awry where the network becomes unstable and control is lost it becomes much more difficult to make controlled changes on the network to repair it. It becomes harder to debug to know what is causing the instability. I would imagine Ascend is furious at MCI right now I'm sure the finger pointing is going both ways.

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