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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (14837)	11/19/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: gbh	Respond to of 18016

BTW,ASND needs three boxes to performe FT,ATM and CE(they have new box for CE) when NN do it on one. This is ludicrous. Where do you get this stuff? The 500 is a mutliservice edge switch, virtually identical to the 170 in terms of supported interfaces, except they are the first with a full MPLS implementation. Where is that NN MPLS support, btw? The 550 is a "core" ATM switch. Not much need to run 1.5Mb/s CES cards through a 25G switch. All grooming takes place in front of this switch, as with all core switches on the market. This would include lower rate ATM, FR, and CES. ASND doesn't scale to 100G. This is marketing hype, the same as NN marketing hype that the 12G scales to 51G. And finally, FORE has had quite a bit of success with the 40G core, both before and after their acquisition. They never had any problems with the pure ATM core. Their problems was the multiservice edge. Maybe they should have merged with NN. LOL. Gary

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (14837)	11/19/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: Hagar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

I don't know, you love to get into pissing contests over technical merits of NN over (name your company) strictly by the very granular marketing numbers. When comparing switches based on advertised switching bandwidth its misleading. The advertised literature always sums as many data paths as possible. What you want to know with respect to 25 Gig vs 50 Gig etc. is how many threads (traffic classes) and what is the speed of the thread. The 36170 is advertised at 12 Gig. How many I/O cards? 12? thats a 1 Gig. Is there more than one thread, is each direction counted separately. If its switching 1 thread of OC12 and therefor cannot support different classes of service properly then that is probably why US sales are slipping. If its 4 or more threads of OC3 then that is also why sales are slipping. The sweet spot is OC12 moving to OC48c. What are the parameters of the 50 Gig from NN. I don't know. It had better be OC48c or better or its a me too, too late. Its a perfect time to introduce OC48c or OC192 switching. The word I have is that LU wont deliver its next switch until 2001. I believe it will switch multiple threads of OC192.