Hi Doug,
You might call me a "Techie" as I'm a hardware engineer for Bay on the East Coast...
<a: Does Bay have an open architecture in its product line or do their products usually serve a system upgrade mkt.>
What the heck is a "system upgrade mkt?" Bay fully supports open architectures and protocols, as opposed to our largest competitor who happens to champion a proprietary protocol known as E/IGRP. Our most recent open standard backing is our participation in the MCNS/DOCSIS cable modem camp.
<b: What is the difference between an Adaptive Router and an IP switch.>
What exactly is an "Adaptive Router?" Has Bay used that term in it's marketing literature somewhere?
As for an IP switch, I assume you are referring to our Layer 3 switches, yes? Bay will provide a full line of Layer 3 switches in our Accelar products, from our Rapid City acquisition. L3 switches process packets at the IP level in order to determine where they should be forwarded and do so at wire speed and latencies equivalent to L2 switches.
<c: Are not Routers/Hubs giving way to IP switches at the Enterprise, ISP and Telco's.>
Yes and No. L3 Switches serve a role in the Enterprise network that was until recently filled by traditional "routers". However, the ISP and Telco markets are vastly different than the Enterprise market. In the ISP/Telco an L3 switch may or may not replace "routers," it depends on the space to which one is referring. Today's L3 switches are primarily LAN focused.
<d: CSCO's R&D is reputed to be working on a 60GBPS router, will Bay have anything to match that.>
OK, I give, what's a "60GBPS" router? Do you mean gigabits per second? If so, aren't you referring to Cisco's GSR, the 12000 family, which will allegedly reach 80Gb/s in the future (16 slots at 5Gb/s per slot)? I believe it's only shipping with a 5Gb/s fabric today, not 80Gb/s. This is the BFR (Big F****** Router) space and I'm not sure what Bay's official position here is...
<e: What percentage of total techie man hours are spent with ISP's,Enterprises and Telco's.>]
OK, again I give, what the heck do you mean? Are you trying to ask how many hours engineers spend talking to customers in each of these areas? Or, how many engineering man-hours are spent developing product for each of these market spaces?
Regards,
Lersxt |
