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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (5951)	8/28/2002 11:34:01 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Thanks, Peter. I should have realized that, since that's what my clients' MANs use at the edge, already. Don't know why I thought the ftth app would be any different... ;) Boy, there are a lot of routers in those nets: Access, Distribution, Core, MAN, before you ever leave the building! Sounds like some kind of a god-box is needed here, which is what I think some of the other vendors are banking on. I.e., somehow collapsing those layers into one, or two at the most, devices. Come to think of it, while the access layer does use the 650x, it's being used as an ethernet switch, despite the fact that it has routing capabilities, too. So, there are only three actual routing layers, not four (unless someone wishes to slide in the blades in the 6506 or 6509).