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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (18476)	2/23/2000 10:00:00 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

A few people have suggested that Microsoft coming late to Novell's game and kicking their butt is an example of using a next-generation technology to leap-frog past the successes of a competitor's early-generation technology. I don't think that's analagous with the Brocade/Ancor situation for the reason someone brought to light -- that Microsfot wielded the power of their value chain over Novell to help bring about that win. I doubt that either Brocade or Ancor has a value chain sufficiently developed to win the war by virtue of the chain's strength. I haven't studied the space, but I doubt we'd be having this discussion focued on early- and next-generation technologies if the value chain of one was so strong that it severely limits the other. Am I right? --Mike Buckley

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (18476)	2/23/2000 11:02:00 AM
From: JRH	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 54805

Now, please explain a router in context of hubs and switches As you probably know now, a hub/switch is used to direct data traffic in a local area network, which is a group of computers in close proximity to each other (for example, an office building). A local area network works fine if data communication only occurs between computers in that building. But what happens when a computer in that building needs to talk to a computer in another building, or needs to talk to another computer on the other side of the world? That is when the router comes into play. The router takes traffic that is destined for any place except computers on the local area network and it sends the traffic off to another router, who will either send it to it's local area network or send it off to the next router. And so a collection of these routers around the world has created the internet. Was my explaination easy enough for a carpetologist to understand?