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To: Mike who wrote (5807)	6/30/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7342

>Does anyone have any info to state whether the Netcore product works? Is this a development stage product that has not been tested or has it been fully tested? This info would be greatly appreciated. mike. listening to Q&A portion as i type. netcore's ash dahod stated that the everest integrated switch is nearing revenue and shipment. it's currently in the "network deployment testing" phase by carriers. the product is the first to combine IP routing and ATM switching into one box. according to dahod, the only equivalent would be two boxes, e.g., the combination of a sun(?) 550 and cisco's 12000 router. there is no direct competitor that provides an equivalent solution by combining IP routing and ATM into one box. they plan to fold in TLAB's WDM (optical) technology in the 9-12 month timeframe. hope this helps, -chris. ----- via netcoresys.com: Timeline: NetCore's initial product, the Everest Integrated Switch, debuted at Networld+Interop Las Vegas in May 1998, capturing Best-of-Show Finalist. In the fall of 1998, NetCore announced the Everest TREK (Traffic Engineering ToolKit), a set of advanced features for dynamic management of IP traffic. In December, Everest became the first multi-terabit switch/router to ship to a customer for evaluation. The Everest Integrated Switch was tested at SAVVIS, a national ISP focused on business-class Internet services. Additional customer tests of Everest are now underway.

To: Mike who wrote (5807)	7/6/1999 3:32:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7342

>Does anyone have any info to state whether the Netcore product works? Is this a development stage product that has not been tested or has it been fully tested? mike. this may interest you -- culled from electronic engineering times. -chris. ----- "NetCore already has shown it is closer to volume manufacturing than several startups. Early Everest systems moved from beta test to network field tests in the spring with a major carrier, though Dahod said the company is still under non-disclosure and could not identify the carrier. NetCore named Solectron Corp. as a manufacturing partner in March, and announced last month that Mitsubishi Corp. would serve as an Asia/Pacific distributor of the Everest switch." techweb.com

To: Mike who wrote (5807)	7/23/1999 11:04:00 AM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7342

>Does anyone have any info to state whether the Netcore product works? This info would be greatly appreciated.< fwiw, another warm & fuzzy. cheers, -chris. ----- Data Communications July 07, 1999, Issue: 2810 Section: Newsfront The Trouble With Terabit Stephen Saunders (New York) Terabit? Make it terabut. Problems with silicon are delaying next-generation terabit routers, and that spells delay for service providers and their customers: Until the Internet gets more robust routing, they're going to have to wait for such value-added services as voice over IP and the latest virtual private networks. Observers say that almost no one has gotten the silicon to work, which may explain why vendors are doing a lot more talking than shipping. "The only ones we've seen working are those from Juniper [Networks Inc., Mountain View, Calif.] and Netcore," says Ian Mashiter, founder and vice president of marketing at Ennovate Networks Inc. (Boxborough, Mass.), which makes an IP switch that sits at the edge of the Internet and talks to terabit routers in the core. "Each time a problem is discovered in the routing silicon it has to be recast, and that delays things by six to nine months," says John M. Shaw, vice president of marketing at Netcore Systems Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.), which claims to have gotten around the problem by using FPGAs and off-the-shelf silicon instead of ASICs. It plans to recast the product into silicon next year, once it has gotten everything stable. Other terabit router vendors deny that they are experiencing unforeseen problems, or offered no comment.