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To: candleLight who wrote (14149)	6/27/1999 3:30:00 PM
From: Regis McConnell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

Finally, an NAC website update! Lots of new information too. A couple of things I like.... "Because the vast majority of Internet traffic is with nodes outside the immediate access ring, the MetroCore was designed to be directly connected with an existing Gigabit/Terabit router to allow for full bandwidth connectivity out of the ring." Can you say OSR-8040/Charlottes' Web?;-) "The data-centric architecture of MetroFusion enables significant enhancements over adaptation techniques of data-over-legacy SONET networks. The initial system will have an internal bandwidth capability of 80 Gbps, with 32 Gb/E line uplinks from each MetroCore to external Internet router(s). Up to 16 MetroEdge units can be placed on a fiber ring with circumference of 200 km. Each MetroEdge unit distributes forty 100 Mbps Ethernet or 4 Gb/E lines. Speed limitation on native data interfaces such as Gigabit Ethernet will soon be removed by the advent of 2.5 or 10 Gbps interfaces. New Access will lead this innovation with its 2.5 Gbps native IP framing structure for the internal transport links. Thus the system allows for direct throughput of 2.5 Gbps per DWDM transceiver with user interfaces of either two Gigabit Ethernet lines or twenty 10/100 lines for each wavelength. Optimized for the demands of internet traffic, MetroFusion reproduces features available in legacy SONET networks using intelligent DWDM systems that can scale to much higher bandwidths." Sounds very capable to replace/upgrade the sonet links in the metro. What do others think? Those Top 3 Reasons of the Top 10 could be 'just what the Metro ordered'.;-) Every one of those 'Next Generation Networks' looks as if they would contain several million dollars worth of 'MRV goods', no?. Regis