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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (308)	1/26/2000 10:11:00 AM
From: Tech Bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1805

I love AMCC what action this am. and look at poor VTSS!!

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (308)	1/30/2000 5:07:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1805

these our packet-over-SONET chips in here, raymondo? as you were kind enough to link to on the FCTF board (circa oct): bcr.com ----- Gig Ethernet Reaches Across WAN 01/28/00, 11:18 a.m. ET By Chuck Moozakis InternetWeek techweb.com In a bid to woo enterprises with bandwidth-intensive Internet access demands, Exodus Communications has rolled out a data service based on Gigabit Ethernet. Gig E, available in California and set to be rolled out nationwide in February, lets Exodus transmit data 10 times faster than the 100 megabit per second service it previously offered, said Scott Emo, Exodus's director of product marketing. Gig E is based on BigIron 8000 switches from Foundry Networks. The switches -- installed at Exodus's Internet data centers -- funnel Gig E traffic directly from customers' servers co-located at the centers onto Exodus's backbone. Mark Ryan, chief technical officer at Weather.com, said he plans to tap Gig E to help support ever-increasing traffic demands. "Visits to our site can double or triple in a heartbeat, depending upon the weather," Ryan said. "And a supplier of, say, outerwear that's advertising in a cold weather region would also be hit heavy, so this service will help us get a better handle on that traffic as well." He said he expects to begin using Gig E later this quarter. Emo said Gig E will replace Exodus' former approach to handling customers' traffic spikes -- in which disparate 100-Mbit/s pipes would be stitched together to handle overflows. Gig E, capable of moving up to 96 million packets per second, will let Exodus eliminate that approach, Emo said. "For a large traffic site, this service is compelling," said Giga Information Group analyst Joel Yaffe. "You get the throughput and you don't have to deal with the headaches associated with administering your own Gigabit Ethernet hardware and software." Gig E is priced with a setup fee of $5,000, plus a monthly recurring charge based on how often high-bandwidth content is distributed. GlobalCenter, the Web hosting arm of Global Crossing, also offers a Gigabit Ethernet service. While not a specific service, the carrier has been providing 1,000-Mbit/s throughput to customers since last October, a spokesman said.