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To: Sector Investor who wrote (13526)	5/18/1999 10:57:00 AM
From: Sector Investor	Read Replies (1) of 42804

akmike, I'm not completely happy with my simplistic answer to you. It kind of made switches look much better than routers, when actually both are needed. I also mixed in the Ethernet concept of "collisions". I'll stick with the analogy and add two thoughts. 1) Consider the difficulty in designing a stadium where everyone had direct non-conflicting access from the any point on the street to their seat. 2) Add the thought that the ushers are aware of "alternate paths" to your general destination, and they can see if escalator #1 is more crowded than escalator #2, or even the elevator. They might tell you to take any of those routes depending on the crowding at the moment. Can you see though that if the ushers can "read" your ticket faster and you can scoot instead of walk, that the stadium gets filled faster? You need both switching and routing. Generally switch when you can, route when you must.

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