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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19389)	2/9/2007 3:52:52 AM
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Hi Frank - Trying to catch up, the linked Loring Wirbel article was an interesting read for those (like me) who've lost track of the story. Nortel, PBT, and the Saga of Ipsilon "Old-timers who remember the mid-1990s fascination with Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching might recall a little startup named Ipsilon that burst on the scene in 1995 with a simplification mantra centered around switching native IP packets. Truly esoteric cognoscenti still remember the simple black T-shirts at Ipsilon that declared "IP... Necessary and Sufficient." Dr. Peter Newman, a founder of ATM pioneer Adaptive Corp., initially liked the flexibility of ATM to make packet-oriented networks behave as if they were connection-oriented, but he eventually soured on the arbitrary nature of the 53-byte cell size of ATM, and became one of the founders of Ipsilon. Engineers at Ipsilon became fond of showing cartoons of designers struggling under a stack of books supposedly necessary to implement the ATM protocol, and boasted about how simple it would be to switch IP packets in native fashion. All well and good, and we know what happened to ATM..." More: eetimes.com Jim

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