Someone asked me in a PM to comment on the difference between Lannet and Xylan. As I'm not an engineer, I can't.
But anyone -- engineer or not -- can get an excellent gestalt impression of the differences by visiting the two websites (yes, Lannet still has one). Open up IE or Netscape twice, and load one with xylan.com and load the other with lannet.com (a Lucent company).
On the Xylan.com website, go to news releases (including archived 1997 releases). You will find reference to a seeming universe of products/applications beyond anything hinted at on the Lannet site.
For example, the most recent xylan press release speaks of a WAN-solution that Xylan is supplying to MetroNet, Canada's largest CLEC. I think this may tie into other press releases which address the OC-3 and greater bandwidth capacities of XYLAN products. There is simply nothing like this at all on the Lannet site, which seems far more restricted to pure LAN applications.
You may come away from the comparison with a different conclusion. But I, for one, see a vast difference in scale and scope between Xylan and Lannet, and the two seem to dovetail rather than overlap.
Gary Korn
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