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Technology Stocks : MRV Communications (MRVC) opinions?
MRVC 9.975-0.1%Aug 15 5:00 PM EST

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To: Sam who wrote (6380)12/13/1997 3:19:00 AM
From: Mike Winn  Read Replies (2) of 42804
 
Nice report, Sam. Thanks.

Q-How excited are you about Direct IP?
A-Direct IP has two factors, increased speed and local area intergrating IP into Gigabit technology. They are currently shipping and integrating Direct IP with Gig.


This is the key to provide Quality of Service (QoS) to Gigabit Ethernet. Direct IP has to be integrated with GE protocol to provide QoS. Direct IP needs to be able to detect busy or down nodes and route the packets through the shortest path to the destination. Since the packets of a message may follow different paths to arrive at the destination, they will not be received in sequence, and the protocol at the destination has to be able to reconstruct the out of sequence message. If we take into account together routing, collision detection, and differential mode delay in multi-mode fiber (light beam bouncing around inside fiber cable and arriving at the destination at various times), and expect the messages to be transmitted and received with zero packet loss, then all this GE network protocol is very very complex.

I think we have an easy job here managing our portfolio and trading in and out the stock at the right time to maximize our profit. But all those pour souls at MRV are perhaps working their butt off to deliver the state of the art technology. My hat off to them for their dedication.
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