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To: The Phoenix who wrote (1010)	9/22/1999 11:02:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3350

Hi Gary, I'll try to be more descript when time permits, but there really isn't anything very sexy about it. Essentially, their view was to allow the next gen boxes to simply focus on managing the larger flows on the highest-density routes, while offloading the smaller routes to secondary routers one tier down in the same pop, or to depend on peered SPs to do off-ramping from the backbone to the smaller ISPs and the services/communities they serve. They did not view the JNPR's [or any other very large b-b router's] role as necessarily supporting VPN functions, discreet content provider routes, local users, etc. My sense was that they were looking for the JNPP to handle large, aggregated (differentiated/labeled) flows, and that they are looking for the smaller SPs or secondary routers of their own to handle more of the distribution. Truly a hierarchical approach, as opposed to an all-in-one scheme to satisfy all spaces. This, they claim (and I see the logic to it) frees up large amounts of processing power and buffer space for where it is needed most. Big, powerful, yet lean on the non-essentials in order to provide more horsepower to get the larger flows created. Regards, Frank Coluccio