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Technology Stocks : George Gilder - Forbes ASAP
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To: ratan lal who wrote (4811)9/8/2000 11:24:40 AM
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Calling a router a commodity is different than suggesting they'll go away. Routers are already a commodity for small business and SOHO applications.... MOst things migrate towards commodity status - albeit at different paces. What Gilder suggested was that routers will be relegated to small footprint CE type devices over smart optical networks. This of course assumes that optical networks are capable of routing via IP since most applications are written with IP networking in mind. So I suppose you can say it's the death of electronic routers but certainly not routers. Traffic will always need to be routed and to suggest otherwise is simply stupid.

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