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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (14837)	11/19/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: Hagar	Read Replies (1) of 18016

I don't know, you love to get into pissing contests over technical merits of NN over (name your company) strictly by the very granular marketing numbers. When comparing switches based on advertised switching bandwidth its misleading. The advertised literature always sums as many data paths as possible. What you want to know with respect to 25 Gig vs 50 Gig etc. is how many threads (traffic classes) and what is the speed of the thread. The 36170 is advertised at 12 Gig. How many I/O cards? 12? thats a 1 Gig. Is there more than one thread, is each direction counted separately. If its switching 1 thread of OC12 and therefor cannot support different classes of service properly then that is probably why US sales are slipping. If its 4 or more threads of OC3 then that is also why sales are slipping. The sweet spot is OC12 moving to OC48c. What are the parameters of the 50 Gig from NN. I don't know. It had better be OC48c or better or its a me too, too late. Its a perfect time to introduce OC48c or OC192 switching. The word I have is that LU wont deliver its next switch until 2001. I believe it will switch multiple threads of OC192.

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