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To: rudedog who wrote (33197)	6/29/2000 12:10:00 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

Dear Rudedog: Being the average reader I still bookmarked it anyhow? haha. JDN

To: rudedog who wrote (33197)	6/29/2000 12:56:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Hi Rudedog: The other rag that is required reading is Redherring located at redherring.com. Both Upside and Redherring have changed from their earlier days but I enjoy their take on the state-of-the-art of the new emerging technologies. ========================================================== I went to the Broadband Year 2000 show yesterday held here in Silicon Valley (San Jose Convention Center). I was quite surprised to see that Sun Servers (UltraSPARC) is the "standard" platform used by many of the vendors to manage their broadband network applications including xDSL and VOIP enterprise networks. In fact Solaris OS appears to be the "defacto" standard now offered and from time to time you see HP OpenView as an alternative option. I did notice that Alcatel has a new VOIP system that is designed around a Windows NT dedicated server which controls a small enterprise voice & data IPX system. I thought to myself that it might be risky to rely on one dedicated Windows server for this mission critical operation. =========================================================== AFC (Advanced Fibre Communications) recently (w/i the last 10 months) have released a LAN/WAN network software management system that utilizes both a SunUltra SPARC) server and client. Their integrated software system allows them to manage and update all the specific customer profile settings (down to each specific POT) in real time. The software can talk to any of the UMC1000 modules in the WAN. Finally, the SUN Server collects all the customer information and passes this data to a DBMS system that generates the detailed billing records. To my surprise, SUNW products have a very important role in making all these VOIP, DSL, class 3/4 layer software switches, Packetloop CPE tracking all work seamlessly. None of this new technology would work or could be easily managed by the network administrator without these Sun Machines. I came away from the show more convinced that SUNW is also a huge player in this Broadband technology providing the network management infrastructure that makes a lot of this new emerging technology work. EKS