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To: Bill who wrote (28615)	10/7/1999 3:32:00 PM
From: Pigboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Bill, I apologize for the misunderstanding. I believe JNPR will have their heads full in a few quarters with competition. 'Presently' it does not look like JNPR has much if any as you imply. I believe JNPR is a Gigabit class router and doesn't compare to Terabit ones getting ready by some companies. I believe MRVC has a Linux router and the separate Aranea Terabit router, which is coming soon. The Aranea looks impressive imho. I believe Terabit routers will be much more powerful and provide direct competition to Gigabit ones. I may be way off here so would appreciate comments? Here's some data grabbed from a knowledgeable poster on the MRVC thread. I apologize about the format. Feature/Option Aranea Juniper Extreme Argon CSCO Chassis width 19" 35" 18" 3 19" 19" Slots Provided 23 8 10 ? 12 Fully Redundant Yes ? Yes ? Yes? Hot Swap HW Yes ? Yes ? ? Memory 1GB ? ? 256MB Dram IP Switching Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ATM Switching Yes No No Yes Yes PacketOverSONET Yes No No No Yes Routing+Switch Yes Yes Some No Yes SONET Connect Yes Yes No ? ? ATM Connect Yes Yes No ? No? DWDM Connect Yes Yes No No No OC-12 Ports 128 32 None 32 44 OC-48 Ports 32 8 None 8 10 OC-192 Ports 16 None None None None 10/100 Ports None None 256 None None GE Ports 128 None 32 None 10 Backplane GBps 200Gbps 20GB 64GB 20GBps 60GB Throughput Mpps 200 20 48 ? 10 Non Blocking Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Expandable 16 NO No 8 NO Max Backplane 4TB 25GB 64GB 160GB 60GB Max Thput pps 3.2B ? 48 ? 10M Max OC-12 Ports 2048 32 None 256 44 Max OC-48 Ports 512 8 None 64 10 Max OC-192Ports 256? None None None None Max 10/100 Port None None 256 None None Max GE Ports 2048 None 32 None 10 Max Trunking OC-768 ? N/A ? OC-48 Distance between serving nodes (KM) Feature/Option Aranea Juniper Extreme Argon CSCO Base Price ? 55,000 ? 100,000 ?