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To: aladin who wrote (6715)	9/6/2000 1:50:04 PM
From: Dan Breslau	Respond to of 14638

For an update on the QOS issues, please see: qbone.internet2.edu Thanks! There's a lot of good stuff there; I've bookmarked it. This 'concept' that Telecomguy has that Nortel is 'core' and cisco is 'edge' is kind of wierd and has little application on these newer networks. Nortel provides the Sonet geer, cisco provides the routers (which we call core routers). Clearly both are necessary. Indeed. Another poster pointed out that once you get past the router, what's inside the networks doesn't need to be IP. This is true -- but it needs to be IP-aware, and will need to be more IP-aware over time. To be fair, I'm a little concerned about whether routers can scale to keep pace with the optical core. But it looks to me like the vendors are catching up fast.