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To: rascalbythesea who wrote (14988)	8/11/1999 12:26:00 AM
From: Sector Investor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

Benny, sorry this reply is so late. I had a job interview and it looks like Sector will soon be among the ranks of the employed again (darn it). Then a family evening, capped off with hitting the neighborhood Dairy Queen just before it closed - a great evening. Data Comm magazine appears to be confused. They list Aranea as an 80GB chassis) (with 32 boxes total). They show 32 OC-48 (2.5 Gbps), which is where the 80Gbps comes in. However, the CW documentation clearly says the the "chassis" supports 64 OC-48 (or 160 Gbps). The confusion seems to stem from the fact that each "chassis" has up to 16 slots, each with a 10 Gbps capacity. Looking at the picture, 8 slots are on top and 8 on the bottom. The CW documentation sometimes talks about router as 32 OC-48 ports and other times as 64 OC-48 ports. I think their basic unit fits in half the chassis, which is rack mounted. Two basic units per chassis, whereas competitors only have 1 basic unit per chassis. The article also missed the fact (no mention) that the Aranea supports up to 128 GE ports per basic unit (256 GE ports per chassis). When configured for GE the throughput is not 80/160 Gbps, but 128/256 Gbps, which is why the backplane speed has to be as fast as it is (200 Gbps). The FE/GE support is very important. None of the other competitors offer it. Think about an ISP for example wanting to offer VPN services to Enterprises some with FE/GE feeds, but some also with ATM or POS. The Aranea can do all three. The others can't. Who gets the sale? As the article also says, those "max config" numbers don't mean much at the moment as there is really no demand for boxes that big yet. What that really represents is "headroom" to grow. There is lots of good information in those tables and I will be extracting that over the next few days time permitting.