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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)
CSCO 71.08+0.1%Nov 7 3:59 PM EST

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To: RetiredNow who wrote (23420)3/8/1999 4:37:00 PM
From: Mighty Mizzou  Read Replies (2) of 77397
 
I thought that as routers get more sophisticated, switches are being replaced with routers.

The other way around, ASIC's are making switches smarter. More ASIC's in a switch make it smarter in routing the message. This eliminates the need for a router to do a time consuming hard drive directory lookup.
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