Not exactly sure what that person is trying to say. Seems to read as circular reasoning, or at the very least some odd combinations of terminology . In any case, here's a press release from last week that I think relates to the generic topic this person comments on. It's a Lucent(via Nexabit) and Agilent collaboration:
M2 PRESSWIRE-7 June 2000-LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: Lucent Technologies and Agilent Technologies stage industry's largest scale real-world terabit testing demonstration
ATLANTA -- SUPERCOMM (Booth 6815) -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) and Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A) today are demonstrating simulated live traffic between Lucent's NX64000 Multi-Terabit Switch Router and Agilent's RouterTester. Handling more than 160 Gb/s of realistic Internet traffic, the demonstration highlights the NX64000's ability to deliver the level of performance required to receive, process and forward millions of packets per second within the core network; and maintain this performance with a full mesh of network traffic.
With a 32 module/64 port RouterTester system connected to the NX64000, this live demonstration will simulate fully meshed traffic, from numbers of networks far in excess of the size of today's Internet, through Lucent's Switch Router. This is the industry's first live test demonstration of this magnitude. Lucent is the first customer to use RouterTester's Dynamic Terabit Testing (DTT) capabilities (announced May 31, 2000).
"With the increasing bandwidth and traffic levels in today's router-based networks, our NX64000 can meet the most rigorous demands of service providers, and still maintain the highest levels of performance as we are demonstrating here today," said Peter Marconi, vice president engineering, IP Group, Lucent InterNetworking Systems. "This test verifies the ability of the NX64000 to handle the rapid and dynamic changes in control and traffic loads typical of the Internet." The simulation includes stress testing with extremely large and complex forwarding table sizes, as well as multi-profile traffic forwarding over 64 OC-48c ports. RouterTester's multiple border gateway protocol (BGP) peer capabilities will be used to demonstrate NX64000 communication and traffic handling with many simulated "neighbor" routers over OC-48c connections. This means that test traffic will be delivered from the RouterTester into the NX64000 in a full mesh configuration, requiring the NX64000 to route packets to every possible combination of ports and demonstrating the switching capacity of the NX64000 under extreme conditions.
"Agilent and Lucent have created the first demonstration that truly reflects -- in both scale and complexity-- the demands placed on core terabit routers deployed in the real-world Internet environment," said Bill Wood, general manager of Agilent's Advanced Networks Division. "Agilent's unique RouterTester capabilities enable Lucent engineers to validate the scalability, performance and reliability of the NX64000 for service providers with unprecedented visibility into all dimensions of product performance, even when handling more than 160 Gb/s of realistic Internet traffic." Lucent's NX64000 is the industry's fastest multi-terabit switch router capable of scaling from gigabit to 6.4 terabit per second speeds. The NX64000 has the highest capacity switch fabric, the highest port density, lowest latency and supports quality of service (QoS) at line rates, even for OC-48 and OC-192 interfaces, supporting massive volumes of converged voice, video and data traffic.
Agilent's RouterTester DTT enables developers at companies such as Lucent to create simulated, real-world test networks within their labs, define and insert events such as route flaps while routers are running at maximum speed, and then evaluate the equipment's response and subsequent performance, all in real time. By integrating Internet-scale performance and routing protocol testing in one wire-speed, easy-to-use solution, RouterTester empowers engineers to speed delivery of routers that can meet the escalating, real-world demands of next-generation networks.
Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign itself into two fully independent companies. With approximately 43,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. In fiscal year 1999, the businesses comprising Agilent, then a subsidiary of HP, had net revenue of more than $8.3 billion. Information about Agilent Technologies can be found on the Web at agilent.com.
Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers the systems, software, silicon and services for next-generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. Backed by the research and development of Bell Labs, Lucent focuses on high-growth areas such as optical and wireless networks; Internet infrastructure; communications software; communications semiconductors and optoelectronics; Web-based enterprise solutions that link private and public networks; and professional network design and consulting services. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at lucent.com.
More information on the Nexabit product is available here:
nexabit.com
I suppose it's also possible the person was implying that the 7 layer network processors such as those from Xaqti/Vitesse and EZchip/Lanoptics are the solution. |
